Jody Miller • Photo Encaustic Workshop

Photo Encaustic Workshop Overview

Date: Sunday, July 26, 2026 10 – 5 pm

This workshop will help you make your photographs into one-of-a-kind works using encaustic wax medium.

You’ll need to provide one 8”x 8” photograph printed on MATTE finish inkjet paper (image size 8×8 with no border).

LightBox will prepare and will glue your prints onto 3/4” cradled boards and let them dry overnight before starting to treat them the next day.

On Sunday morning we will meet and discuss the various techniques involved, and I will show a few examples of my own photo encaustic work.

We will spend the entire day treating our photographs, using the wax medium to create depth, fabrics to create texture, and oil colors to add a final finishing touch to our images.

Keep in mind that the finished piece, if it has oil based paint on it, will still be wet (tacky) when finished so bring a container to take it home in. It takes about 2-3 weeks for the oil paint to completely dry.

Class size will be limited to 6 participants, with workstations being shared by 2 people each using one hot plate and one heat gun.

The cost for the workshop is $299, LightBox Members: $269 with all materials provided! Contact michael@lightbox-photographic.com to reserve a space

Jody Miller has been a photographer for most of her life. She has studied with Ansel Adams, Arthur Ollman and Jerry Uelsmann and her photographs of landscape and cityscape have been shown, published and won numerous awards both here in the US and internationally, One of her landscape images is in the permanent collection of the Tate Gallery in London. She has been making photo encaustic work for the last two years and has had exhibitions of that work at LightBox Photographic Gallery and RiverSea Gallery in Astoria. Oregon, where she is a happy full-time resident. Her website can be found at www.jodymillerphoto.com.

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