Painting with Fire
Join the year long course that everyone is talking about.
Painting with Fire is a transformational training for anyone interested in encaustic. Comprised of a 52-week online course plus a supportive creative mastermind community. This collaborative workshop brings together 26+ world renowned Encaustic artists sharing their knowledge, expertise, creativity, inspiration, wisdom and techniques.
About this Year-Long Course
Painting with Fire is a game-changing course and community that will revolutionize your artwork.
This is a year-long course gives you unparalled access to 26+ instructors all openly sharing their processes, expertise, and inspiration. No other place can you find a team of mentors to advise and support you through all areas of your artistic process.
You will find endless ideas to pursue whether you want to dive deeper into a particular topic or try something completely out of your comfort zone. One week you’ll be learning about photographs and encaustic and the next about working on soft supports. Who knows you may find yourself falling in love with a process you didn’t even know about.
Classes are delivered each Wednesday as a prerecorded video and once they are available you can watch whenever you wish, with lifetime access.
Painting with Fire’s uplifting community can help…..
• Get all your burning questions answered
• Find the best resources
• Offer support and encouragement from teachers and members
• Provide loads and loads of inspiration
• Present best practice for your encaustic art
• Grant a wealth of learning opportunities
• Introduce you to new and exciting processes
• Release your fears holding you back from creating great work
• Trust your intuition
This is a unique and safe place to show your work, comment with your insights, ask questions, encourage others, express your struggles, and share your ‘aha’ moments.
Geared towards all levels – beginning, intermediate and advanced artists.
50+ Hours of Instruction
Lifetime Access
Discounts on Enkaustikos and supplies
Tuition worth up to $5,000 if purchased separately
I'm Clare O'Neill
I’m Clare O’Neill. I’m a photographer and artist and I help artists all over the world turn their photographs into one-of-a-kind images that they love.
I was fascinated with encaustic the first time I saw an encaustic painting and immediately wanted to incorporate my photographs with this ancient wax-based medium. I knew nothing of the medium, the process, or if it would work with photographs. I just knew I had to give it a try.
I experimented with mounting images to my substrate, printing on tissue paper and photo transfers. I found the magic of the tissue paper process gives me the most depth, texture and visual interest.
My work is created by making slowly building up the surface with multiple layers—using bold brush strokes and playful drips to create backgrounds full of gesture, spontaneity, and motion. My work is large, so the photographs are printed on tissue paper in multiple pieces, and then carefully embedded into the layers of hot beeswax.
I’ve spent the last 10 years teaching photo encaustic (both online and in-person), showing and selling my work.
I believe wholeheartedly that learning artistic techniques is like learning to drive a manual transmission car. You need to master the nuance of using a clutch and shifting and this no doubt takes some practice. But once it becomes second nature, getting on the open road is what is exciting, reinvigorating, and magical.
I’m most proud of teaching my students to go beyond the techniques, to hone their vision, make meaningful images, find their own artistic voice, and understand ‘why’ they are creating the work they create.