Ocean Springs artist Annette Bailey Blocker returns to El Dorado May 1-3 to teach “Entering the World of Encaustics”. She was last in El Dorado as an exhibiting artist in June 2014 with Tides & Currents: Contemporary Art along the Gulf Coast. The classes will begin with a meet and greet and presentation on Friday from 6-7pm, and continue Saturday and Sunday from 10am-4pm. Deadline to enroll and pay for class is April 24.
Annette will introduce participants to techniques of applying encaustic medium to a support, utilizing the fusing method, incorporating opaque and transparent layers of medium. She will teach participants how to make and transfer imagery to the encaustic surface, and how to create smooth and rough textures using encaustic.
Annette works at the Screaming Cockatoo Art Studio, where she gives private instruction in the basics of clay construction and firing, encaustics applications, and jewelry design. She also does private studio work. Previously, she was at the Anagama & Salt Kiln Building in Key West, Florida, and the Wood Fire Kiln Building in Brookhaven, Mississippi. She also has worked at the Ohr-O’Keefe Museum of Art as the Education Director and the Walter Anderson Museum of Art as a contributing artist and teacher for classes and workshops.
She has participated I.W. Conch in Key West, one of 20 participants from six different countries in a workshop led by Japanese, O Master Potters Kojie Sugie & Ryojie Kojie. Annette is a five time recipient of the OSAA Exceptional Merit Award, was accepted into the 1997 Annual Juried Competition at the Masur Museum of Art in Monroe, Louisiana, and received Best of Show in the 1996 Mississippi’s State Collegiate Competition. Annette has exhibited at the Kress Live Art Gallery in Biloxi, Mississippi; the South Arkansas Arts Center; MGCCC in Gautier, Mississippi; Three Legged Dog Gallery in Key West, Florida; the Ohr-O’Keefe Museum of Art in Biloxi, Mississippi; and the Walter Anderson Museum of Art in Ocean Springs, Mississippi.
Cost for “Entering the World of Encaustics” is $245/members get $20 discount. Supplies not included, but are available for an additional $55 from Annette at the workshop.

SUPPLIES/MATERIALS LIST:
Supports (plywood cut into 6”x6” squares)
Beeswax
Ground Damar Resin
Assorted Chip Brushes
Oil Paint, Oil Pastels/Crayons, or Pure Powdered Pigments
Assorted Textile Trim, Threads, Lace, Papers
Assorted Printed Images on Printer Paper
Electric Skillet and/or Griddle
Hot Air Gun
Wood Burning Gun
Iron, Hand Iron
Burnishing Tool
Extension Cord
Texturing Tools (Needle Tool, Scrapers, Trimming Tools, Toothing Trowels,
Sculpture Tools, Carving Tools, etc.)