This workshop explores all of the exciting ways in which Instant Indigo can be combined with encaustic. Instant Indigo is a pre-reduced indigo crystal and can be used as a vat dye on fabric as well as a painting medium on both paper and fabric. Instant indigo is unique, very versatile and can create interesting collage material that can be embedded into your encaustic layers. What is most exciting is that it can be painted directly on top of the encaustic surface, which allows for the painting of thin lines with tiny brushes, applying layers of lines or thin pools of translucent indigo color. The rich indigo color is unmistakable in that there really is nothing else like it’s clear blue with a hint of green hue. The crystals can also be mixed with a variety of media other than water, such as soy milk,

orange juice and ink, to enrich the color and/or reduce the beading of the media on the encaustic surface.

Collage, mark-making, rust printing on paper and fabric and the combination of other natural materials such as horse hair and pyrography in combination with indigo and encaustic is also explored.