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Shapes and Lines
Written By: Zach Claxton - Art League of Highlands-Cashiers | Issue: August - 2022
Artist Jan De Jong will decipher the tricks and techniques that make it possible to paint on rice paper – Monday, August 29 at 5:00 P.M. at The Bascom.
The August meeting of the Art League of Highlands-Cashiers will be held at The Bascom on Monday, August29. Social time begins at 4:30 P.M., followed by themeeting at 5:00 P.M. This event is free and open to the public.The guest speaker at the meetingwill be watercolorist, Jan DeJong.Ms. De Jong discovered water-colors as a child, and she hasbeen fascinated with the mediumever since. After retiring fromteaching art in 2002, she beganteaching adults in her Floridahome, as well as conducting workshops. Jan started painting onrice paper in 2010.She especially likes working on rice paper because she lovesthe way it absorbs the paints and the textures she can get fromthe wax resist. The technique forces the artist to save whitesand to understand negative space, thus simplifying their idea,and working with shapes as well as lines. Jan is a signaturemember of the Miami Watercolor Society as well as the FloridaWatercolor Society.She believes that learning something new is challenging andcan be fun at any age. Her presentation, entitled,Creative RicePaper Batik, will include illustrations done by her and otherbatik artists using the technique of working with paper andwax. Jan will demonstrate techniques of handling the paperand wax, and she will teach theconcepts of working from light todark, simplifying the painting’sdesign and the textures that canbe achieved from painting withwax. She will show how to tearthe rice paper and will provide alist of supplies needed and whereto obtain them. Attendees willalso receive written step-by-stepdirections on this method. There will be a side table with ricepaper and melted wax for those who wish to give this method atry. We think you will find this presentation to be both interest-ing and instructive.
by Zach Claxton, The Art League of Highlands-Cashiers
