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Melinda Cootsona – Cold Wax Techniques: Cold Wax and Figurative Art (Online Class Recording)

Date recorded: Friday, October 20, 2023
Medium: Cold wax

In this second Cold Wax Technique Takeaway, see how Melinda uses certain techniques with cold wax to develop figurative art.  These methods apply to any type of object and can be used in pure abstraction as well.

Watch her demonstrate how to keep the exiting unpredictable qualities of this medium while still retaining some control to help you define your figures and shapes. Additionally, several techniques to create different qualities of line will be discussed and shown.

Cold Wax Medium is used with oil paint.  There are new Cold Wax products on the market that do work with acrylics. This course does not address acrylics. Melinda will be demonstrating with oil paint and Gamblin Cold Wax Medium.

A native Northern Californian, Melinda Lomax Cootsona received her BFA from the California College of the Arts in Oakland in 1981. Melinda has been included in exhibitions at The Bakersfield Museum of Art, San Luis Obispo Plein Air Painting Competition and the Triton Museum where she won an Award of Merit.

Her abstract figurative work, with its use of lines and composition, is a nod to her BA in Architectural Interior Design and the influences of Bay Area figurative arts like Diebenkorn and Park. Her process always begins as an abstract, with multiple layers of shapes, lines, patterns and colors built up numerous times before she even considers the ultimate “subject matter.” Often her paintings depict private moments in a personal life. www.melindacootsona.com/

$40 for one year

About Our Past Technique Takeaways:

Discover specific art techniques that you can ‘take away’ from some of your favorite artists and apply to your own work. This one-and-a-half hour recorded presentation will showcase a process that the artist incorporates in their art practice.  Instruction will be through a combination of lecture and demonstration. 

You’ll be able to watch the class recording as many times as you would like for one year unless otherwise specified in the product description. (If an instructor wishes their recordings to be available for less than a year, we defer to instructor preferences.) There are no ongoing charges and your access will automatically end.

A link to the recording will be included in your on-screen purchase confirmation, in your purchase confirmation email and on your Online Classrooms page.

(There is no Zoom link for this event because it has already taken place).

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