Dec 5,6,7, 2009 Sat, Sun, Mon 10-4
July 16-18, 2010 ( same time as Art Santa Fe!)
August 20-22, 2010 (Indian MArket weekend)
This three day wax encaustic workshop will cover all the basics, but the emphasis will be on enabling you to use encaustic to help achieve your personal artistic vision, along with learning how to make paint, about supports, and techniques: paint application, fusing, glazing inscribing and mixed media approaches, we will emphasize how these techniques can be developed to create a unique encaustic language for each student.
Take the opportunity to visit beautiful Santa Fe, see the spectacular skies, mountains, and over 200 galleries, while you are able to learn, or learn more about, Wax Encaustic Painting with Ellen Koment.
Because these are all small workshops, I am able to give each student a great deal of individual attention, and have found that there is no problem in having students from those beginning in encaustic to those who are more advanced in the same workshop, although there are now also workshops designed for more experienced encaustic artists. All Santa Fe workshops are held in the artist's studio, near downtown Santa Fe, New Mexico
Nov 8 - 12, Sun - Thurs, 9:30- 4:30 Watch for fall dates!
This five day workshop is a unique opportunity for artists who are already working in encaustic to experience the joy of seeing there work on a larger scale, or to attempt any other expansion of their vision which they might like to pursue. We will address the special design and technical considerations involved in working on a larger scale, from sketch to finishing. Participants may work up to 36” x 36” on their own panels.
Many people stay at a certain level with their encaustic painting because they see working at a larger scale as intimidating. It does present certain challenges, but when you understand how to overcome them, it can be a richly rewarding experience. In both of these workshops we will address all aspects of working larger, from the planning and drawing stages, through preparation of the surface; understanding temperature control and how it facilitates working larger, handling color and glazing, as well as special effects, and finishing.
MORE ABOUT ENCAUSTIC PAINTING:
going a little largerMay 22-25 2090;
Sept 24-27, 2010
This four day wax encaustic workshop will cover all the basics, but the emphasis will be on enabling you to refine your encaustic techniques, and to move a little farther with your encaustic painting. Along with learning how to make paint, about supports, and techniques: paint application, fusing, glazing inscribing and mixed media approaches, we will emphasize how these techniques can be developed to create a unique encaustic language for each student. This small workshop (no more than 6), is designed for people with some previous encaustic experience, and students can work up to 24" x24" on their own cradled panels.
Postponed: watch for new dates
Friday evening, 5-7, Sat and Sun, 10-4
This
Two Day workshop will include all the information and hands on experience of the Introductory workshop, but in addition we will visit the numerous galleries in Santa Fe that show encaustic art. We will meet to go to openings on Friday evening, have an introduction to encaustic on Saturday morning, go to galleries on Saturday in the afternoon, and spend the whole day Sunday in the studio! photo: Ellen Koment opening at BOX Gallery
INTRODUCTION TO ENCAUSTIC with Mixed Media
Sat & Sun, Feb 20-21 10 - 4
This two day workshop will cover all the basics, including information about how to make paint, about the commercial paints and their applications, about supports, grounds and techniques: paint application, fusing, glazing, inscribing and mixed media approaches. We will emphasize how these techniques can be developed to create a unique encaustic language for each student.
What is Wax Encaustic Painting?
Wax Encaustic is an ancient medium that has experienced a contemporary Renaissance. Encaustic Painting was practiced by Greek Artists as far back as the 5th century BC. Legend has it that the Greeks applied coatings of wax and resin to waterproof their ships, and that this led to pigmenting the wax for decoration. Homer talks about the painted ships of the Greek warriors at Troy.
The technique of Wax Encaustic Painting involves applying layers of pigmented wax, which are then fused together with heat. The word encaustic comes from the ancient Greek, meaning to burn in. This glazing process allows a depth and richness of color to be achieved. For me the glory of working in wax has been the discovery of what it can do that other mediums can’t. Any observer can appreciate the extraordinary effects of depth and luminosity that can be achieved, the wonderful sense of transparency that you can play with, the richness of textural possibilities, these are the obvious. Less apparent, perhaps, is the involvement with the process itself. The sheer love of beautiful natural materials, the completion of the process by sealing it with fire. The magic of involvement with an ancient art.
