Ellen Koment, encaustic on panels, 15" x 15" each

ABOUT THE WORKSHOPS

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. All Santa Fe workshops are held in the artist's studio, near downtown Santa Fe, New Mexico

ENCAUSTIC AND CREATIVE PROCESS, summer dates



JULY 17,18,19
AUGUST 23,24,25

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.

YouTube Workshop Video

INTRODUCTION TO ENCAUSTIC AND MIXED MEDIA


FALL DATES to be announced

This two day 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.

BEYOND BEGINNING: GOING LARGE



WATCH FOR FALL DATES

This four 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.

Coming This Summer: Half Day Encaustic Clinics

These three hour Clinics are designed to help you with whatever questions or problems you may have encountered while working with encaustic; bring the painting you are working on and get suggestions as to how to improve them ! This will not be a place to create new work, but rather an opportunity to improve projects you are already working on. JUNE 8 & JULY 6 9:30- 12:30. $30. for former NM Encaustic Workshop participants, $60. for others

Ellen Koment at BOX Gallery



Box Gallery is one of "a dozen galleries ... that the serious collector and the discerning tourist would not want to miss." -- Mimi Avins, Los Angeles Times, Travel, Sunday, September 3, 2006

1611-A Paseo de Peralta Santa Fe, NM 87501 (across from SITE Santa Fe)
hours: Tuesday - Saturday 10 - 5
505.989.4897
michelle@boxgallerysf.com
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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.

A Mutable Wall

A Mutable Wall