Encaustic Retreats

Do you love NATURE as an element for your artwork?

As an artist who has taken my workshops before, I’m offering you this wonderful painting retreat opportunity first.

Natural Impressions Encaustic & Oil Workshop

Meg MacDonald & Jodi Reeb
Core Artist Instructors for R&F Paints

July 17-20, 2025
Vancouver Island, BC Canada

$795 USD 4-day workshop
$1150 Canadian

$500 Deposit holds your spot. Final payment due 05/01/2025
Register via Zelle, check or bank transfer
Contact: jodi@jodireeb.com

limited to 10 artists


You’ll be inspired by the beautiful surroundings in Victoria, British Columbia at McTavish Studios. In this 4-day, nature-inspired workshop, you’ll learn monotype printing techniques using leaves and other natural objects with R&F oil pigment sticks. You’ll be working on reusable gel printing plates that give exciting results. The printed images can be added as collage in your encaustic paintings. This method is the most painterly of printmaking techniques and without a press.

You'll also learn how to use plant material as a stencil to create textured botanical paintings.  

Taking photos as reference material from our inspiring location, you’ll learn the exciting ways to paint with wax, developing your unique voice! We’ll cover several techniques for collaging and embedding your prints into encaustic, as well as image transfer. We’ll include a variety of techniques such as incising, scraping and adding texture. These combined techniques will allow you to create dynamic nature-based compositions full of depth and translucency.