To Infinity and Beyond: Handmade Encaustic Concertina Books

Create a handmade concertina/accordion book and transform it into a 3D art piece using encaustic paints, mixed media, and mark-making techniques!

50 minutes of instruction for just USD$65.00!

Course Summary

Create a handmade concertina/accordion book and discover creative ways to adorn its seemingly endless folded pages. This course invites you to explore the limitless possibilities of embellishing your book with mixed media, imaginative mark making, and encaustic paints. You'll discover a variety of encaustic techniques and tools, applying these to paper, to craft a continuous series of “mini-encaustic paintings” that unfold into a unique and personal 3-dimensional and sculptural work of art.

Infinity and Beyond is a remasted course from the 3-part series which is in part of the Painting with Fire - 3 Materclass

Course Curriculum

BUY Single Course

$65 USD


  • 50 minutes of Video Instruction
  • Supplies Resource Download

BUY Creative Chronicles Bundled set

$95 USD

Regular price $110 USD if bought separately


  • Everything from the Infinity and Beyond Course
  • Page Turners Course
  • Inside My Art: Free Bonus Video

Shary Bartlett

Shary Bartlett is a fine artist living in Vancouver, Canada.
Her award-winning mixed media body of work includes encaustic, acrylic, fibre arts, prints, sculptural assemblage, collage and altered photographs. She has been a long-time Fine Arts instructor at colleges, universities, international conferences and retreats and teaches as part of the acclaimed international online encaustic masterclass, Painting with Fire.