Hi there… here is the hive teaching schedule has just been added to … now all workshops are posted until the end of MAY 2012!  Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions: andrea – 519-323-3437.  The hive is in the Alton Mill Creative Arts Centre, near Orangeville, ON  www.altonmill.ca Workshops include full day, two day, [...]

 Home from the 5th Annual Encaustic Conference and ready to talk about it on the radio tomorrow in an interview!  www.toginet.com and click on ‘listen live’ to find out about encaustic painting, the wonderful contemporary artists that use this luscious medium and how much I love it… interview takes place on Wed. June 8th at [...]

Join us this weekend, and next (April 30, May 1st, 7th and 8th @ the Alton Mill (www.altonmill.ca) for Spring Awakenings, their yearly celebration of this time of year… there will be hands-on ‘Give it a Whirl!’s  in the hive (studio 201)… with me at 11am, noon, 1pm and 3 pm each day.  I will give [...]

 New Schedule with exciting, never-before-offered workshops and courses!   In response to the demand, there is now an Encaustic 4  and half-day introductory courses to encaustic, a parent/child workshop and the usual Encaustic 1, 2 & 3.  Phew!  Looks like it’s gearing up to be a busy and interesting year… please contact me if you have any [...]

In this video encaustic artist Andrea Bird demonstrates for workshop participants how to use these three tools: the blow torch, the heat gun and the iron.