Newton Community Ed Cold Wax Class

This Monday we started a five week class on Cold Wax Painting at Newton South High School through the Newton Community Education Program. Class starts at 6:30 pm and runs until 9 pm. Come join us! Cold Wax medium is provided by the instructor (me) and there is a list of other materials to bring. Check it out at the Newton Community Education website. It’s not too late to join us!

In this class we are learning about what Cold Wax Medium is and how to use it. There are a lot of materials and tools involved in the stages of the cold wax drying process. We are also covering Value, Design and Color so that artists can improve their art skills as well as learning the medium.

Doors and Ways Wins Award

“Doors and Ways” cold wax and oil diptych won an award through the Newton Art Association on Monday. The party and ceremony took place at the Newton Public Library where the art exhibit is hanging. The award, the Mollie L. & Henry Schoenberg Award was juried by John Kasbohm, owner, of Atelier 564 in Newton.

Newton Art Association Show at Newton Library to Open

Today a myriad of artists showed up with art work in hand to add to the yearly Newton Public Library Show. The show opening is on Monday at 8 pm and all are invited! There are three rooms displayed with paintings and sculpture: The large gallery room, a middle room and the library entrance hallway. An art hanging committee of ten people (including me) stayed three hours to arrange the pieces, hanging them on clips and spacing and labeling them accordingly. My diptych, “Doors and Ways” is in the main room. See attached photos.There are always a few who label their pieces wrong, like me, and the typist has to make another few labels. Thanks, Carole Slattery!

Travel Inspires Art

I was editing my Perugi Studio Website and placing photographs. This involves going into the media folder and picking out the images. I noticed a photo I took on a trip to Italy three years ago that clearly inspired one of my recent paintings, Arches. The place and image must have been in my subconscious. The photo at right was taken at the Florence Leather School in 2016. The Cold Wax Painting was made in 2019. Take a look and see what you think. Here is the painting and photo:

Cold Wax Painting Class at Post Road Art Center

Doors and Ways by Deb Perugi

This is finally happening this Monday at 1:30!!
Monday, September 6,2019, I’ll be teaching a three week class on cold wax painting at Post Road Art Center in Marlborough. Randi, Post Road’s owner, is so excited she is taking the class with us. Cold wax is a medium that mixes with oil paint, making it somewhat stiffer but with a butter consistency. It dries faster than oil paint alone and allows for scraping and incising when it is partially dry, resulting in a mixed media effect. Come try this new painting experience!