Description
Work in a Series – Develop Your Style with Staci Swider
Discover the many benefits of working a series with this video workshop from mixed-media artist, Staci Swider. In Acrylic Painting Studio: Working in a Series, Staci will guide you, and student Amy Jones, through the creation of three small paintings, each with the same focal image but with different mixed-media techniques. Working with the same image, a snazzy beetle, will allow you to become familiar with drawing the shape while freeing you to experiment with new supplies or techniques. Dress each beetle’s shell with different looks including antiquing with liquin, embedding fabric in encaustic and adding shimmery elements such as copper tape, interference paint, mica and glitter!
In this video you will:
- Get ideas for different focal images to create your own series.
- Learn three styles of finishing techniques.
- Enjoy 74 minutes of premier workshop instruction.
Watch a preview of this video here!
About the Artist
Producing exceptional fine art inspired by craft, Aiken, South Carolina painter Staci Swider’s work reinterprets the patterns and textures found in function-driven objects such as quilts and baskets as dreamscape imagery that straddles the line between figurative and abstract. Staci’s visual history includes stints as both a corporate and freelance textile designer, professional painter and author. Her work has been exhibited at the Morris Museum of Art as well as many galleries across the Southeast. Staci is the author of Acrylic Expressions (North Light, 2016). Find more of Staci’s work at StaciSwider.com.
Materials List
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Surface
- 3- 4" x 6" canvases
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Media
- Acrylic interference paint
- Acrylic paint, variety of colors
- Acrylic varnish, matte or gloss
- Black oil stick
- Boiled linseed oil
- Burnt Umber oil paint
- Liquin
- Natural encaustic wax
- Oil pastels, Staci uses Sennelier
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Other Tools and Supplies
- 2" chip brush exclusively for encaustic
- Aileen’s Tacky Glue or other heavy glue
- Assorted paint brushes
- collage papers
- copper tape
- empty tuna can or metal dish
- fabric scraps
- glitter or glitter glue
- heat gun
- hot plate
- mica flakes
- needle tool or awl
- old rag
- Pencil
- Water container
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