2024 Snohomish Studio Tour Giveaway!

Enter for a chance to win an opportunity to have a unique Snohomish art experience for you and a guest.

 

The Snohomish Art Experience:

You and a guest will stay one night in a charming lakeside cabin, on picturesque Flowing Lake. Next-door, you’ll spend the day at a private encaustic workshop at the delightful Flowing Lake Studio—workspace of local artist, and studio tour participant Denise Richards. During the workshop, innovative food enthusiast Amber Dawn, of Host Notes, will provide a tasty picnic experience.

This special Snohomish Art Experience is valued at $950.00

How to Enter:

Attend the 2024 Snohomish Studio Tour and collect stamps on your brochure at each studio stop. Once you’ve collected 8 stamps, you can submit your stamped brochure to a studio stop (or the shuttle bus), to be entered in a drawing for the Snohomish Art Experience.  

Be sure to fill out your name, phone number, and email address on your brochure for a chance to win.

Learn the art of Encaustic Painting in an idyllic studio location on Flowing Lake in Snohomish WA!

A one-day workshop for two scheduled on a chosen Saturday from 10am to 3pm (see terms).

Denise Richards will introduce you to the materials and how to use them in a safe and archival manner. Participants will watch a demonstration and then be able to dive into the fun of painting with pigmented melted wax at Denise’s lakefront studio.                                                   

  • Encaustic – From the Greek word Enkaustikos, “to burn in”                             

    Ancient Medium used in the Roman-Greco period. The encaustic medium is a special ratio of melted beeswax and tree sap (damar resin) that creates an archival painting medium. 

    Dating from the First Century BC through the second century AD, the medium was used to paint portraits on panels that were attached to mummy cases. We still see the preserved Fayum portraits in museums today.

    The encaustic process was also used to decorate ship’s hulls providing artistic decoration along with the encaustic medium’s sealing quality.

About The Cabin

Enjoy a stay at this charming and vintage styled lakefront cabin, steps away from Denise’s studio. Cozy up to the fire, cook a meal in the full kitchen, and fall asleep to the quiet of the lake. Wake up to stunning Flowing Lake views, and enjoy your coffee out in the seating area, watching the water.

Note: Sleeps 2 in a double size bed.

About The Host Notes 

The Host Notes’ owner and local food blogger, Amber Dawn, is a food writer, recipe developer, and occasional private chef who delights in building community around good food. Amber is bringing her love for picnic fare to the Snohomish Studio Tour giveaway by providing a basket of her favorite local and scratch-made eats for you and your plus one to enjoy during your painting workshop!

Follow her foodie adventures on Instagram , featured articles in Snohomish City Lifestyle, and be on the lookout for her recipe blog launching this fall, thehostnotes.com!

  • The Snohomish Art Experience is scheduled for one of the below date options, in spring 2025:

     March 21 – 22, 2025 (workshop on Sat. 22nd)

    March 28 – 29, 2025 (workshop on Sat. 29th)

    April 4 – 5, 2025 (workshop on Sat. 5th)

     

    ·      If a winner is not available for any of the dates listed, they can gift the give-away to someone who is available on the dates listed

    ·     One opportunity to reschedule due to emergency will be considered, determined case by case.

    ·    If rescheduling, one of the other pre-determined dates are the only other options.