Encaustic Arts Magazine Spring 2012 | Page 42

I found it quite humorous that the book eventually
became an actual exhibition, which is exactly what
I was trying to avoid! Jeff Juhlin, one of the artists in
the book, took a PDF of the artwork to the curator
at the Kimball Art Center, in Park City, who loved it
and booked it for June-July of 2011. Kimball got to
be the cat-herders! They mounted a beautiful exhibition,
and lit it wonderfully as well. It was a great
place for sales of the book. Instant Catalog!
Daniella Woolf
Giving a gallery talk for the exhibition, Encaustic With
a Textile Sensibility, at the Kimball, in 2011.
New Book Cover-The Encaustic
Studio. Photos © 2012, Interweave
Press LLC. Published in The
Encaustic Studio by Daniella Woolf.
Photography by Joe Coca. Used with
permission. All rights reserved. Not
to be reprinted.
In 2010, I was contacted by Interweave Press to write
a mixed-media encaustic book with an accompanying
DVD. This book, The Encaustic Studio, just
came out in April. Making it was a totally different
experience. I not only had an art director, but also
a team of Interweave professionals. I was blessed
with a wonderful editor, Elaine Lipson who guided
me though the process, and became my dear
friend. Interweave had a team of 8 people working
on this book, including Liz Quan, a fantastic artist in
her own right, and a wonderful Art Director. Initially
Elaine asked me to just write, write, write, and send
everything to her by a certain deadline. In short
order, she sent me back my words in book form,
with chapters listed. It astonished me. There were
deadlines. There were edits of every sort. I used
the paints from every one of our fine encaustic
paint makers. For shooting photos of the tools and
materials section, Liz Quan had me pour out an
enormous slab of wax onto which she could place
the specific categories of items. I was amazed at
her precision and fine aesthetic sensibility.
Interweave had an in-house person do the technical
edits. I was also fortunate to have Richard Frumess
of R & F Paints check my manuscript for technical
accuracy. He made some corrections, and taught
me some new information in the process. I wanted
to enlist others, but time ran out.
To my amazement, we shot a DVD in one day (my
others have taken 4) at the studio of Joe (the guy
with the most toys) Coca, a terrific photographer.
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Art Director, Liz Quan’s layout on a slab
of encaustic medium! Photos copyright
2012, Interweave Press LLC. Published in
The Encaustic Studio by Daniella Woolf.
Photography by Joe Coca. Used with
permission. All rights reserved. Not to be
reprinted.
Shooting the DVD in Joe Coca’s Studio-in one day!
Photos copyright 2012, Interweave Press LLC.
Published in The Encaustic Studio by Daniella Woolf.
Photography by Joe Coca. Used with permission. All
rights reserved. Not to be reprinted.
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