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LIFE DRAWING WEDNESDAY NIGHTS

July 11, 18, 25, Aug. 1, 8, 15, 22

We provide the model, and you provide everything else.

7 - 9 pm at Pamet Crossing (1 Depot Road)

$10 per session (pay there)

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This year's Ella Jackson Chair honors:

Painting the Figure from the Model - Nancy Ellen Craig
June 17-20
Monday-Thursday
1:00 - 4:00pm - note time change
4 Sessions
$400

 

The human figure has been a source of inspiration for artists throughout history; from Rembrandt to Winslow Homer and especially for figurative artist Nancy Ellen Craig.    In this workshop you will paint or draw directly from the model.  Craig will give a demonstration of her painting process the first day of class.  The model will be set up in the same long pose for the rest of the workshop.  You will be encouraged to trust your instinct and cultivate the sense of immediacy that working directly from the model instills. Craig will also discuss how, when creating her compositions, she often adds imagery from her treasure trove of figures, animals and imaginary landscapes. 

Craig has painted professionally for more than forty years and is renowned for painting the portraits of the famous, including artists, writers and royals both in America and Europe.  She has painted the portraits of Hans Hoffman, Edwin Dickinson, Frank Lloyd Wright, Norman Mailer, Angelica Huston and Princess Elizabeth of Yugoslavia among others.  She is also known for her mural-size paintings that come from her imagination and contain images from Greek mythology, the Bible, and the contemporary political landscape. Her work is publically held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Baltimore Museum, the New Britain Art Institute, the Ringling Museum, and PAAM.  She is a recipient of the Pollack-Krasner Award, Allied Artists for America Gold Medal, Audubon Artists Patrons Prize and the National Association of Women Artist Award, and she was twice awarded by The National Academy of Design.  www.nancyellencraig.com

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Painting the Streets -Lisbeth Firmin
June 17-21
Monday -Friday
9am -12pm
5 Sessions
$395

Firmin will take you out on the streets of Provincetown, instructing you to work quickly with big brushes and bold color to capture the energy of the streets. The first day the class will meet and paint at the Provincetown Monument. Firmin gives a demonstration at the beginning of each class, and a critique at the end of each session. The next four days students will meet at assigned locations in Provincetown. This workshop is structured for both beginners and advanced painters.

Lisbeth Firmin is a contemporary American realist known for her urban landscapes. She shows both nationally and internationally and has received awards that include; 1st prize in WSKG Public Radio’s annual 2010 Art in Motion Competition, 2010 People’s Choice Award, Woodstock Regional at Woodstock Museum, a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, and 1st prize in the LANA International Arts Competition awarded by Wayne Thiebaud – to name a few. Fellowships include: MacDowell Colony, National Seashore Residency, the Vermont Studio Center and Saltonstall Arts Colony. Her work is in both public and private collections, including the New York Historical Society, University of Texas, Cape Cod Museum, and Hofstra University. Firmin lives in New York and will exhibit new oils and prints at the Rice-Polak Gallery in Provincetown in July of 2013.

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Still Life with Model- Laurence Young
Painting with Accidents
June 17 -21
Mon -Friday
9am - 12pm
5 Sessions
$395

Laurence Young believes that as an artist, one might perceive accidents while painting as mistakes.  But in fact, accidents are opportunities to create something unique or more developed in your work.  He will teach you how to start with an under painting that will be incorporated into your final painting.  His objective is to help you remain open to all “accidents” since they may be idiosyncratic characteristics that make your work unique.  Using your intuition -- coupled with your cognitive painting skills, he will guide you to understand how accidents may become the basis of your most inspired work.  You will be working from a still-life for two days and the live model for the last two days.  All level of painters are welcome, however this class is a greater challenge for beginners.

Laurence Young is a contemporary American painter who resides in Provincetown.  He is captivated by the unique light of the local landscape and how it can be translated using sumptuous paint, vibrant color and abstracted compositions. Young works directly from the landscape and then transforms those observations and feelings into new paintings in his studio.  His work is collected both privately and publically and included in the collections of the Provincetown Art Association and Museum, the Wadsworth Athenaeum, and the New Jersey State Museum. Young has a BFA from Hartford Art School and an MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design.

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Painting Frescoes-Michael Biddle
June 17 - 21
Mon-Friday
9am -12pm
5 Sessions
$395

Fresco is a medium used from the time of the Minoan culture, over 3500 years ago, through the flowering of the Renaissance, to the Mexican Mural Movement and the many murals produced in the US under the WPA. Fresco remains an enduring and fascinating approach to art, at once primitive and supremely enduring. This straightforward medium offers a wide variety of approaches that range from decoration to the creation of a major artistic statement. The course will include a brief history of fresco, introduce the rudiments of the technique, the preparation of the mortar surface, including an approach to the design process, and the preparation and application of pigments. Students will work on terra cotta tiles that can be taken home and installed on an appropriate surface.

Michael Biddle is an artist who has worked in many mediums. He taught for over 30 years at the Fashion Institute of Technology, and was chair of the Fine Arts Department there before he retired in 2005.

Michael Biddle's Blog

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Watercolor - Elizabeth Pratt
June 24-28
Monday -Friday
9am-12pm
5 Sessions
$395

Painting with watercolor can be exciting if you engage your creativity and imagination and learn to let your painting evolve by building deeper color, dramatic light and interesting form and line. Different methods to achieve this and texture will be demonstrated each day. Some experience with the watercolor medium will be needed.

Elizabeth Pratt is a Copley master and longtime member of the New England Watercolor Society. She has had sixty one-woman shows including a recent one at the Cape Cod Museum of Art. She is an elected member of Audubon Artists of New York City with work appearing in twelve books on watercolor. She is represented locally by Addison Gallery in Orleans.

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FINDING YOUR ENCAUSTIC WAY - Carol Odell
June 24 - 28
Monday -Friday
9am-12pm
5 Sessions
$395

Why encaustic? Wax as a painting medium offers the artist unique properties that strongly differ from other paint materials - it flows, but is also a dimensional solid that can be easily carved or transformed with heat. It is an adhesive; it is translucent and it “dries” almost instantly allowing the application of many layers in a sitting. It is compatible with many other media allowing artists to enhance or embellish other types of artwork. This workshop is for artists wishing to learn the process of encaustic painting or incorporate it into their current practice of artmaking.  Odell will demonstrate a wide variety of techniques, materials and tools and explain how encaustic can be used with other mediums. Students will be encouraged to experiment with encaustic, introduced to its safety issues, and resource information and reference materials will be discussed and shared. 

Odell is a local painter working in a non-representational style in the media of oil, monotype and encaustic.  She believes in art as means of transportation away from the routines of life to a place of new experience and revitalization. She exhibits regularly with Provincetown Art Assoc., the Printmakers of Cape Cod, the Monotype Guild of New England, New England Wax and 21 in Truro. She and her artist husband have owned a gallery in Chatham for almost 40 years.  Odell has taught workshops at the Cape Cod Art Association, the Cape Museum of Art, PAAM and Castle Hill.  Her work has been exhibited at galleries in New England and is in the collections of Newport Art Museum, Boston Public Library, the Cahoon Museum of American Art, the Cape Museum of Art and in private and corporate collections.  She is a graduate of the School of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston.

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Painting Summer Light – Nancy McCarthy
June 23 7pm-9pm – Sunday pre-week meeting
June 24-28 9am-Noon
Sunday-Friday
5 Painting Sessions
$395

 

The natural world has remained a potent source for artists throughout history. The focus of this workshop is simplifying complex vistas into shapes of specific value and hue. A series of exercises with large brushes and palette knives will encourage this process. We'll begin with viewing contemporary and historical landscape painters and discussion of the issues, tools and procedures unique to painting outdoors. Each day a one-sitting painting will be completed. Some painting experience is required; those who have painted outdoors many times or those doing so for the first time are welcome to join this intense workshop meant to energize your painting practice. Water based or oil paint may be used. 

Nancy McCarthy is a Boston based painter who works both from imagination and observation. Exhibitions include Manifest Drawing and Painting Center, Cincinnati, OH; Simmons College, Boston; Gutman Library, Harvard University, Cambridge;  Bromfield Gallery, Boston; MFA Circle Gallery, Annapolis, MD; First Street Gallery, NY; and Bowery Gallery, NY. Awards include: a  2009 St. Botolph Foundation Award, Artist’s Grant, Vermont Studio Center and a Ragdale Foundation Fellowship. She has server as a mentor in MassArt’s low residency MFA Program and has taught painting, drawing and color courses at Massart since 2006, She has also taught at Assumption College in Worcester MA, and the Washington Art Association in Washington CT. Her work is represented by the Post Office Gallery in Truro, MA. (nancymccarthy.net)

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Plein Air Landscape Painting on the Outer Cape-Amy Wynne Derry
July 1-4
Monday-Thursday
8am-12pm
5 Sessions
$395

Come paint the inspiring landscape of Truro and Provincetown. Embrace the exciting challenge of painting and drawing outdoors, catching the fleeting, changing light.  As our planet degrades, there is an increasing need to be out in the elements making beautiful paintings; perhaps this will awaken people to save what we are quickly destroying. Simple hikes will take class members to tidal marshes, ocean and bay beaches and the Provinceland dunes. Initially, there will be an emphasis on drawing the inner structure of the landscape and its compositional dynamics to accumulate sketches and visual data. Workshop participants will then build the paintings from the ground up, respecting the anatomy of the painting and allowing the layering and the process to create subtleties that imbue the work with a spirit of place. Students of all levels are welcome; however, a basic knowledge of oil paint is preferable.

Amy Wynne-Derry is a third generation Truro summer resident. The artist received her MFA in Painting and Drawing from the New York Academy of Art in Manhattan, and has a BA from Smith College. She also studied at the New York Studio School and the Instituto Allende in San Miguel d’Allende, Mexico. She has been teaching landscape and figurative painting and drawing for over 20 years. For 10 years, she has been teaching full time at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, and teaches part time at the Rhode Island School of Design. She has had exhibitions across New England and her paintings are in several corporate collections. She has been awarded numerous grants including one from the Rhode Island State Council for the Arts and a recent fellowship to the Vermont Studio Center.

 

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The Figure: Life Size with Special Color Workshop-Elaine Smollin
July 1-5
Monday-Friday
9am-12pm
5 Sessions
$410

Our understanding of great figurative paintings from Titian to Goya, Bonnard, and Hopper will be enriched as models recreate poses from these brilliant figure compositions. This is a physically and intellectually exciting workshop since we will be working at a life-size scale with color and paint – it is a “sketch” class that will expand our powers of observation while also demonstrating how to impart  luminous beauty to the surface treatment of your work. Strong support will be provided for understanding intentional use of color and guidance will be given to help you work loosely yet exactingly with paint, brush and trowel -- aka palette knife. Oil paint, all water paints and house paint encouraged!

Elaine Smollin teaches at the School of Architecture and Art at Roger Williams University in Bristol, RI and at the Art and Environment Program she created on the Hudson River Palisades in Alpine NJ.  She received her BFA and MFA from Pratt Institute. 

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Drawing From/In Nature-Susan Lyman
July 1-5
Monday -Friday
9am-12pm
5 Sessions
$395

This workshop we will explore two- and three-dimensional possibilities of “drawing” from, and in nature – specifically the landscape. We will use the unique Cape environment – woods, dune and sea - as a source for developing personal imagery and expression in more conventional drawing, and optionally as site and source for found natural materials for more ephemeral “drawing” in nature.  The workshop will focus on building students’ perceptual skills in drawing and design and open to beginners and advanced students.  A camera will be useful for recording images for your ephemeral works. Students will be given a list in advance -- of suggested materials and papers. You may use wet and/or dry materials of your choice. (Some basic materials and tools will be provided and durable drawing paper in larger sizes will be available for purchase at cost.)

Susan Lyman is a sculptor and painter who has lived year-round in Provincetown since 1981 when she was awarded a Visual Arts Fellowship at the Fine Arts Work Center. She is also the recipient of grants from Rhode Island School of Design, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, and the Artists’ Foundation of Boston. Lyman has exhibited her work in numerous solo and group exhibitions for over 30 years in the United States, Japan, and New Zealand. Her work is held in corporate and museum collections. In 2009 Lyman’s work was featured in the exhibition "Second Nature: Vico Fabbris, Susan Lyman, Michael Mazur, Nathalie Miebach" at PAAM. In Provincetown she is represented by Schoolhouse Gallery. Lyman has taught at RISD, Massachusetts College of Art, Hamilton College, Fine Arts Work Center, and University of Michigan School of Art, where she received her BFA and MFA. She teaches sculpture, drawing, and three-dimensional design at Providence College.

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The Studio Door- Mike Carroll
July 1-5
Monday-Friday
9am-12pm
5 Sessions
$395

This class explores ways to advance your art career and set goals for your work’s visibility in a chosen market. You will learn how to communicate and promote your work without diminishing your creative process. Carroll will conduct individual and group critiques, Q & A sessions, and address the contradiction many artists feel about what they make and what to do next with their career.  You will discuss marketplace pricing of your work, how to develop a customer base and how artwork functions in the lives of collectors.  You will receive feedback on the impact of your work, the articulation of your intentions, as well as thoughts on potential career tracks including how and when to submit a portfolio, how to present to a gallery and other exhibition spaces.

Mike Carroll has been an artist and gallery owner for over 25 years. He attended Emerson College and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. He ran the live performance and video section at The Boston Film Video Foundation, when video was in its infancy. Carroll opened his first gallery, The 11th Hour, near Boston’s South Station where he produced early exhibitions by Mark Morrisroe, Jack Smith and The Clam Twins. He was the Executive Director at Provincetown’s Schoolhouse Center from 1997 through 2004 and owner of the Schoolhouse Gallery since 2005. Carroll has exhibited widely throughout the Northeast, with work in numerous public and private collections.  He has been featured in Art New England and Provincetown Arts Magazine.

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Rising like a Phoenix from the Ashes -Cammie Watson
July 1-5
Monday-Friday
12:30-3:30pm
5 Sessions
$395

Watson writes; “A few years ago I happened to be using disposable palette sheets for mixing my paints. When they had dried, I found the colors too beautiful to abandon, so I started some collages based on the shapes and tones found in the mixed colors. These collages grew more or less organically on their own from recycled beginnings, without any planning on my part.” In this workshop class members will create an oil painting, and then use the dried paints from the palette by composing them into a collage. The final works, an oil painting and a collage, will become twin pieces with subtle but powerful connections.

Watson is an award-winning third generation painter, author, and illustrator whose work has received honors from Kirkus Reviews, the Golden Book Club, Reading Rainbow, the Society of Illustrators, and Provincetown Art Association & Museum. Her work was presented in a solo show at the Cape Cod Museum of Art, has appeared in many juried shows, including at the Cape Cod Museum of Art and PAAM. Her work is in the Cape Cod Museum of Art's permanent collection and many private collections. She graduated from Yale College. She is a member of the Provincetown Art Association, the Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators, has taught at Castle Hill and the Academy for the Performing Arts in Orleans. Watson grew up in Putney, Vermont and Truro, Massachusetts.

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Color Painting Essentials Workshop-Julie Snyder
July 1 - 5
Monday-Friday
1-4pm
5 Sessions
$395

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Learn the tools of rich color and gorgeous harmon from color master, painter Julie Snyder. This workshop covers the nuts and bolts of color, color relationships and how to paint the effect of light and its color as it influences your subjects. Working with both still life set ups (3 days) and a live model (2 days), you will explore and develop color in your art work, adding confidence in how you paint. This practical hands-on workshop demystifies and simplifies the dynamics of color and harmony.

A native of Scotland, artist Snyder studied drawing and painting at the Glasgow School of Art.  Her artistic career has spanned both sides of the Atlantic and included several years of residence in Southern Spain. Snyder forged her craft as an illustrator in advertising, publishing and the motion picture industry, including Warner Bros. Her work hangs in collections and galleries across the country. She has exhibited with The Oil Painters of America at the Waterhouse Gallery, Santa Barbara; and the Howard/Mandeville Gallery in Washington; Addison Art Gallery in Massachusetts, The Boston International Fine Arts Show, the California Art Club of Los Angeles. She is represented by Danielak Art of Pasadena, Segil Fine Art, Monrovia, Silvana Gallery, Glendale and Addison Art Gallery, Cape Cod.

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Exploration of Vibrant Realism in Pastel -Amy Sanders
July 1-5
1-4pm
Monday -Friday
5 Sessions
$395

Pastel is a rich, archival and eco-friendly medium, yet for those who wish to work in the Realism tradition, achieving your vision can be daunting. This workshop will be dedicated to exploring a variety of technical tricks and tips that can make that process of using pastel easier. We will focus on what you see instead of what you think you see.  You will learn to employ creative layers, widen your range of color values, and put to use a few clever and simple tools to make your vision come to life. Participants are encouraged to vocalize frustrations and concerns with using pastels to guide the direction of the workshop. You may contact the instructor via email (aksanders@comcast.net) prior to the start of class. Demonstrations will take place; critique will be by your invitation only.  Any levels welcome.

Truro artist Sanders, credits the serenity and beauty of the pine woods, ocean and bay, beaches and dunes of the Outer Cape as the inspiration for most of her art.  Sanders is an award winning artist and Signature Member of the Pastel Society of America (PSA). In addition, she is a respected art juror/judge in the New England art show circuit, and has been published in International Artist, American Art Collector, and The Pastel Journal. Her paintings have been sold in auctions to benefit Truro's Castle Hill Center for the Arts and the Truro Historical Society. She has exhibited in galleries in Connecticut and on the Cape, and has been represented by the Addison Art Gallery of Orleans, Massachusetts since 1998.

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Pushing Paint into Sculpture-Laura Moriarty
July 8-12
Monday-Friday
9am-12pm (Instruction)
1-4pm (Open Studio)
5 Sessions
$465

This five-day workshop will explore the potential of encaustic as a sculptural material that is self-supporting. The class will begin by making flat paintings on panel to explore color, pattern, image and texture. Working like archaeologists, participants will then excavate the paint from the panel. The class will dig, scrape, enfold and unearth unique elements by compressing the warm paint into sculptural forms. These eruptions and forms will be further articulated through various methods of dissection, collection, clustering, burnishing and polishing. Bring your curiosity and sense of discovery to this fun and experimental class.

Laura Moriarty has exhibited extensively throughout the U.S., Canada and Europe. She has participated in residencies at the NOCCA Institute in New Orleans, Women’s Studio Workshop, the Frans Masereel Center in Belgium, Oberpfälzer Künstlerhaus in Germany, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and the Ucross Foundation in Wyoming. She has been awarded two Pollock-Krasner Foundation grants (1997 and 2007), as well as grants from the New York Foundation for the Arts, and the Craft Alliance of New York State. Moriarty has been conducting encaustic painting workshops for over ten years, both through R&F Handmade Paints and as a visiting artist in schools and art centers nation-wide. She is based in New York's Hudson River Valley and is Director of the Gallery at R&F Handmade Paints.

www.lauramoriarty.com

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Pigment Stick Workshop – Wayne Montecalvo

July 8 -12
Monday-Friday
9 am-12pm
5 Sessions
$395

Pigment sticks are a quick medium for working out ideas, combining painting and drawing at the same time. They are perfect for working outdoors as they do not require thinner, solvent, or even brushes. For those who are painters, they can be mixed with tube oil paint or encaustic and used with a brush. They have immediacy for anyone who likes to work with a dry medium such as pencil, charcoal, or pastel and can be used on a variety of surfaces such as canvas, paper, glass, and more dimensional surfaces such as plaster, ceramics, or concrete. The class will explore using pigment sticks for making monotypes.

Wayne Montecalvo grew up in Edison, NJ and graduated from the School of Visual Arts in New York. Although his art making practice spans several disciplines, he has always had a fondness for including cheap, easily accumulated, and found materials in his work. Wayne has taught workshops at Women’s Studio Workshop, Bard College, R&F Handmade Paints, Essex Art Center, and the Center for Contemporary Printmaking. He has taken part in residencies at Vermont Studio Center, Frans Masereel Center, and the John Michael Kohler Arts/Industry Artist-In-Residence. Wayne currently maintains a studio in Rosendale, NY, and works for the Fine & Performing Art Department at SUNY, New Paltz, NY. 

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Pictures That Tell a Story: “Children’s Book Workshop” -Steve Light
July 8-12
Monday-Friday
9am-12pm
5 Sessions
$395

Picture Books are a unique combination of words and pictures. Light will take you through the process of coming up with an idea and sketches to creating a 32 page dummy and final art. The class will discuss “the page turn”, story arcs and visual storytelling. Also under consideration will be where ideas come from and how much of a finished idea you need to present to Editors and Art Directors.

Light grew up in New Jersey. He went on to study Illustration at Pratt Institute; he also studied with Dave Passalacqua. Upon graduating he did corporate illustrations for companies such as: AT&T, Sony Films, and the New York Times Book Review. He has published 12 children’s books by Abrams, Candlewick Press and Chronicle Books. They include: I am Happy, Puss in Boots, The Shoemaker Extraordinaire, Uncle Sam, Trucks Go, Trains Go and The Christmas Giant. “Zephyr Takes Flight” will be out in October as well as Diggers Go. Steve Light Storyboxes are used by teachers, parents and children where props are used in a story box to tell children a story. www.stevelightart.com

 

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Process: Making and Meaning-Deborah Dancy

July 15-21
Monday-Friday
9am-12pm (Instruction)
1 - 4pm (Open Studio)
5 Sessions
$465

This is a mixed media painting/drawing workshop that encourages process as a strategy toward discovering personal and conceptual iconography and meaning.  Using a range and variety of tools, materials and references, individuals will examine how chance and accident can inform content whether through representation, invention or abstraction.

Dancy is on the faculty at the University of Connecticut. She has received numerous awards and honors including: Guggenheim Fellowship, Connecticut Commission of the Arts Artist Grant, New England Foundation for the Arts/NEA Individual Artist Grant, Nexus Press Artist Book Project Award, and a Women’s Studio Workshop Residency Grant. Her work has been exhibited at: Purdue University, The Housatonic Museum, The University of Rhode Island, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, The Spencer Museum, Mobius, The Mead Art Museum and The DeCordova Museum. Her work is included in the permanent collections of: The Boston Museum of Fine, The Birmingham Museum of Art, The Baltimore Museum of Art, The Montgomery Museum of Art, The Hunter Museum of Art, Vanderbilt University, Grinnell College, Oberlin College Museum of Art, Davidson Art Center, The Detroit Museum of Art, General Electric Company, and the US Embassy in Cameroon.  She is represented by, Sears-Peyton Gallery, New York, G.R.N’Namdi Gallery, Chicago and Charles Young Fine Prints and Drawings, CT.

 

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Beginning and Intermediate Oil Painting-Peter Chepus

July 15 -19
Monday -Friday
9am -12pm
5 Sessions
$395

This class is for the beginner or the intermediate painter who would like to learn or review the basics of oil painting.  We will start by exploring materials available including; canvas, paint, mediums and how to set up your paint on your palette. Workshop participants will learn the foundations for making a picture, including; composition, color hue/values, various painting techniques and how to begin and finish a painting.    The class will work from life and from photographs.  After a short introduction each day, class members will make a painting that employs that morning’s topic.  Individual attention will be emphasized.  

Chepus studied art at the Cape Cod School of Arts and at the Armory Art Center in Florida. For the past eleven years he has been conducting painting workshops in Florida and on Cape Cod.  He is a native of Cuba and has been painting professionally for the past 25 years. His solo exhibits include the Palm Beach Hibel Museum of Art, Palm Beach Council on the Arts, and the Truro Public Library. He is represented by Cortile Gallery in Provincetown.  www.peterchepus.com.

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Sketch Journey Through Time and Space on the Pamet River - Mark Adams

July20 - 21
Saturday & Sunday
1-5pm
Castle Hill
$275

Less than three miles long, Truro’s Pamet River occupies a valley hollowed out by the sudden draining of Cape Cod Lake in glacial times (or so geologists speculate). The setting offers the opportunity to journey with sketchbook in hand from Bay to Ocean and in a few hours to observe vast salt marshes, historic vistas, overgrown channels and a barrier ocean beach. The class will offer a variety of methods for quick sketching with pencil, pen and ink, washes and watercolor, as well as descriptive exercises to sharpen observation. All levels are welcome provided participants bring a willingness to experiment and observe. Cameras are also welcome as an additional means to capture details and landscapes. Brief discussions of geology, wetland ecology, and natural/cultural history will be interspersed with drawing sessions. Weather permitting, a kayak session is planned for Sunday, and waterproof sketch journals will be available for a nominal fee. Participants must be capable of paddling their own kayak. Kayaks can be provided at local rental rates or bring your own for the Sunday session.

Mark Adams is a landscape painter (Schoolhouse Gallery, Provincetown; The Fireplace Project, Easthampton) and has been a cartographer/geographer with the National Park Service for 15 years.

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Mixed Media and Painting-Adam Lowenbein
July 22 -26
Monday-Friday
9am -12pm
5 Sessions
$395

This class will explore the use of different materials- photographs, fabric, paper etc. as formal and narrative elements within our painting. Students are encouraged to bring materials that inspire them visually, challenge them technically and tell some kind of story- literal or not.  The workshop begins with simple assignments then advances to individual projects, focusing on how to develop and explore ideas and techniques and especially how to combine different elements with paint.  Finished work can be two and three dimensional.  Group discussion and individual attention will be part of the class.

Lowenbein lives and works in New York City and upstate in Pond Eddy, NY.  He has a BFA in painting from The Rhode Island School of Design and his MFA in painting is from Indiana University.  He is also an alumnus of Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture and was a Core Fellow at the Glassell School, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. His work has been exhibited at Go Fish Gallery in NYC, at Caren Golden Fine Arts, The Center for Book Arts, Bluestone Gallery in Milford, PA, and recently in Houston, TX at Rudolph Blume Fine Arts, the West Collection, and other corporate collections.  His work has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, World of Interiors and other publications.

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More than a Portrait -Daphne Confer
July 15 -19
Monday- Friday
1 -4pm
5 Sessions
$395

This workshop is about pushing a typical portrait/figure class beyond creating another nice portrait, and toward creating a figurative painting that has psychological impact. We will discuss evoking emotion and mood and how to make that work.  Using a model, we will first create a semi detailed charcoal drawing establishing the “feel” of the painting. We will build up the work by applying a tonal under painting, establishing values and pushing strong lights and darks within the composition, creating a monochromatic version of the finished product. To finish, we will use a limited palette of oil colors and glaze over the under painting. There will be individual attention and direction throughout the workshop, and all levels are welcome.

Confar received her BFA from the Art Institute of Southern California and her MFA from Boston University. She resides in Milton Massachusetts and has enjoyed coming to the Cape for the last 15 years for her summer show at the William Scott Gallery in Provincetown. Daphne has exhibited her work coast to coast in the US and abroad, and was recently a fellow at the Ballinglen Arts Foundation in Ballycastle Ireland.  Her work has been reviewed favorably by the Boston Globe, LATimes, American Art collector, Art in America, and the Provincetown Banner.  www.daphneconfar.blogspot.com

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Beyond Plein-Air-Christopher Volpe
July 22 - 26
9am -12pm
Monday -Friday
5 Sessions
$395

This workshop pushes beyond imitation of nature, exploring the expressive use of design and color and how to broaden our perceptual skills. The goals is to paint from your inner emotional life, creating work that is authentically your own. Participants will come away with a raft of exercises, processes, and disciplines that will align creative process with their subjective responses to nature. We will consider painting as "the practice of interiority" from Rembrandt to Monet, Van Gogh, Cezanne, Redon, Corot,  Tom Thomson, American Tonalism and Abstract Expressionism (Rothko, Pollock, de Kooning), down to contemporary "perceptual painters" such as Ken Kewley, Eric Aho, and Stuart Shils. We will anchor the discussion with excerpts from the writings of the artists as well as Wallace Stevens, Charles W. Hawthorne, and Robert Henri. Class begins with a lecture: Painting as Visual Poetry. We will then paint outside and in the studio, incorporating a range of creative exercises and observational techniques.

Volpe teaches at the New Hampshire Institute of Art in Manchester, NH. Throughout the year, he teaches classes and painting workshops in Maine, coastal New Hampshire, and Massachusetts. He completed a graduate degree in poetry from the University of New Hampshire and went on to study painting with Dennis Sheehan, Eric Aho, and Stuart Shils. He is represented in Provincetown by the Bowersock Gallery.

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Working with Cold Wax Medium - Carol Pelletier
July 22 -26
Monday -Friday
1 -4pm
5 Sessions
$395

This course will explore the various properties of cold wax used as a stand-alone medium, with oil paint and on a variety of surfaces which may include canvas, printmaking papers, photographs, collage on panel and with other types of media like ink drawings and watercolor.  Cold wax has many of the luminous properties seen in encaustic painting but also provides flexibility in use when an artist is on the move.  Unlike encaustic, cold wax is used without heat and does not need to be fused. Cold wax also takes some time to dry so various additives can be used to hasten the drying process.  A variety of tools are used to create textures and layers, which provide depth to the imagery.  Demonstrations will begin each session allowing time for questions and experimentation during the rest of each day. One on one feedback will be provided during the course.  This course is for beginning to advanced artists who wish to explore mixed media as a painterly approach.

Pelletier, Chair of Fine Arts and Associate Professor of Art at Endicott College in Beverly Massachusetts received the M.F.A. in Painting and Drawing from James Madison University and the B.F.A. from the University of Maine at Presque Isle. Her previous posts have included Chair of Visual Arts at West Virginia Wesleyan College and Visual Arts Master Teacher for the Governors School for the Arts at Marshall University. She has exhibited in over 50 solo and group shows nationwide, including The Attleboro Art Museum, The Huntington Museum of Art, the Oglebay Institute, Soren Christensen, Isalos Fine Art, Olson-Larsen Gallery, Marshall University, Berea College and Marietta College to name a few. She has received three National Endowment for the Arts Grants. Her work has been in multiple catalogue exhibitions and publications including the New American Paintings Magazine, Visual Overture Magazine and RiverLit Magazine. She is represented by the River Gallery in Chattanooga, Tennessee. www.carolpelletier.net.

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Landscape Painting - Don Beal

July 29 -August 2
Monday -Friday
9am -12pm
5 Sessions
$395

Class will meet outdoors at pre-arranged sites nearby and possibly in Provincetown and Wellfleet. Participants should come prepared to work in all weather conditions, except rain, and should consider equipping themselves with hats, bug repellant, sunscreen, and umbrellas. A new painting will be done each day of class. Recommended canvas size is from 9"x12" up to 16"x20". Gessoed Masonite, heavy weight paper or panel are also suitable painting surfaces, as is canvas boards. Oil paint is the preferred medium, though acrylics are fine.

Beal studied painting at the Swain School of Design in New Bedford, Massachusetts, Brooklyn College in Brooklyn, New York, and received an MFA from Parsons School of Design in 1983.  Beal has been a Professor of Fine Arts at the University of Massachusetts in North Dartmouth since 1999. He is represented by the Berta Walker Gallery in Provincetown.  In 1985 he moved to Provincetown where he married photographer Khristine Hopkins. They have a son, Max.

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Surface as Metaphor; Pushing Your Work to the Next Level -Anne Flash
July 29 -August 2
Monday -Friday
1 -4pm
5 Sessions
$395

In this process-oriented drawing & mixed media workshop, participants will explore various methods and meanings connected to surface, practically and conceptually. Non-linear narratives will be developed through selective procedures such as marking, rubbing, layering, erasing, scratching, scanning, smudging, staining, blotting, etc. Chance operations and time-mapping will be used as ways to generate composition. All sorts of 2-D images, including photographic and copier images will be considered fair game as parts of departure. Scanners/printers will be available, as well as various other creative tools to encourage taking your drawings to the next level. Each participant can expect to take away a richly provocative and original set of mixed-media pieces that will push beyond his/her own conventions into new creative territory.

Flash has been on the Cape for 14 years. Before that, she lived in New York City, and Hartford, CT. Her BFA is from MA College of Art and Design, and her MFA is from Hunter College in New York. She taught at Trinity College and Now teaches drawing at Cape Cod Community College, where she was the 2008 Artist-in-Residence.  A one-person exhibition of her work followed at the Higgins Gallery. She was awarded a painting residencies at Yaddo and at The Millay Colony for the Arts. In 2007, NPR produced a profile of one of Flash's drawing classes at the PAAM for a series called 'The Price of Paradise'. She had a solo exhibit at the Hutson gallery in Provincetown.  He work has been in group shows at PAAM, Higgins Gallery at Cape Cod Community College and in NYC and New England.

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Thinking, Working, Space -Judy Pfaff
July 29 -August 2
Monday -Friday
9am -12pm (Instruction)
1 -4pm (Open Studio)
5 Sessions
$800

This workshop is for advanced artists.  Pfaff will work one on one to offer options and strategies to expand in concept or in physical space, individual artists’ work.  Work will become “site specific” and so the space to which you are assigned will naturally influence your art making decisions....come with ideas and strong work ethic, anything can happen.

Pfaff creates installations, sculptures, and drawings that explore the possibilities of line in space using materials that range from tree roots to steel, plastics, fiberglass, and plaster. Through a distinguished career that stretches back to the 1970s, she has exhibited internationally. and received many prestigious awards. Pfaff is a MacArthur, NEA and Guggenheim Fellow whose installation pieces, sculptures, drawings and prints have been exhibited in some of the most important museums and galleries in the world. Pfaff's art is featured in such publications as After the Revolution: Women Who Transformed Contemporary Art and Judy Pfaff, a monograph by critic and art historian Irving Sandler. Her work is in collections including the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, the Brooklyn Museum, the Detroit Institute of Art, the High Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the National Museum of Women in the Arts, and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.  She is currently Professor of Art and Co-Chair of the Art Department, Bard College. She was the 2012 Castle Hill’s Woody English Distinguished Artist And Writer’s Chair.

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Drawing for Fun -Rebecca Doughty
August 5-8
Monday -Thursday
9am -12pm
4 Sessions
$380

Drawing is one of the great simple pleasures of life. We all start out drawing freely and often lose touch or feel too judgmental about our abilities to continue. You can find your way back to drawing, for fun, for relaxation, self-expression, awakening a sense of observation and tapping your imagination. Through a series of exercises this informal workshop will emphasize experimentation, explore materials and techniques, participants will also view drawings by a wide range of artists . We will de-emphasize "doing it right" and instead discover our own voices and what works for us that will encourage us to keep drawing-- just for the joy of it. Bring a sense of humor, and willingness to share ideas and constructive feedback with the group. Welcome to individuals who think they "can't draw", or those could use a jump start to get back to drawing. 

Doughty's drawings and paintings have been exhibited widely, including The Boston Drawing Project, The Drawing Center in NYC, The DeCordova Museum, and The Schoolhouse Gallery in Provincetown. She received a BFA from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and an MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts, and has received awards and fellowships from the Massachusetts Cultural Council, Ucross Foundation in Wyoming, and the Ballinglen Arts Foundation in Ireland. She has taught drawing classes for adults and teens, mentored students in MFA programs, and has also written and illustrated children's books. Visit Rebecca at: www.rebeccadoughty.com

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Figure Painting Class -Antonia Ramis Miguel
August 5 -8
Monday -Thursday
9am -12pm
4 Sessions
$395

This class will focus on figure painting methods. The instructor will work with you individually and as a group as all levels are welcome to develop studio skills. Beginners will be introduced to traditional and academic techniques to build a strong foundation and learn how to create interesting effects with paint.  More advanced participants will be encouraged to explore and experiment with the expressive possibilities in their figure painting. We’ll paint and draw from direct observation of a live model. There will be a demonstration from the instructor and a group critique at the end of the week. “It is not what you paint; it is , that makes the difference”

Antonia Ramis Miguel was trained in Europe and has been painting for more than 20 years. Her work has been shown in her native Spain, Vienna, Washington, D.C. and London. You can view her work at www.antoniaramismiguel.com

 

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Beginning and Intermediate Oil Painting-Peter Chepus

August 5 - 8
Monday -Thursday
9am -12pm
4 Sessions
$380

This class is for the beginner or the intermediate painter who would like to learn or review the basics of oil painting.  We will start by exploring materials available including; canvas, paint, mediums and how to set up your paint on your palette. Workshop participants will learn the foundations for making a picture, including; composition, color hue/values, various painting techniques and how to begin and finish a painting.    The class will work from life and from photographs.  After a short introduction each day, class members will make a painting that employs that morning’s topic.  Individual attention will be emphasized.  

Chepus studied art at the Cape Cod School of Arts and at the Armory Art Center in Florida. For the past eleven years he has been conducting painting workshops in Florida and on Cape Cod.  He is a native of Cuba and has been painting professionally for the past 25 years. His solo exhibits include the Palm Beach Hibel Museum of Art, Palm Beach Council on the Arts, and the Truro Public Library. He is represented by Cortile Gallery in Provincetown.  www.peterchepus.com.

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Drawing Fresh Landscapes: Physicality and Connection to Place-
Amy Wynne Derry
August 5 -8
Monday - Thursday
9am -1pm
4 Sessions
$380

Hiking into four biomes of the Outer Cape: ever-changing tidal marsh, wind-blown parabolic dunes, ancient forest and stunning ocean vistas will inspire artists to react distinctively to each environment through drawing.  Artists will be introduced to a variety of materials and surfaces to explore the possibilities of drawing the landscape. The expedition, the meditative walk, becomes the destination for the accumulation of visual data. Each artist will keep a field journal as well as larger surfaces for more infinite drawings done on site.

A third generation Truro summer resident, painter Amy Wynne-Derry received her MFA in Painting and Drawing from the New York Academy of Art in Manhattan. She has a BA from Smith College in Art History and Cultural Anthropology. In addition, she studied at The New York Studio School and the Instituto Allende in San Miguel d’Allende, Mexico. She has been teaching landscape and figurative painting and drawing for over 20 years. For the past 10 years, she has been teaching full time at The School of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston. She teaches part time at The Rhode Island School of Design. She has exhibited throughout New England and her work is in corporate collections. Reviews of her work have appeared in Art New England, The Boston Globe and The Providence Journal. She was awarded numerous grants including; The Rhode Island State Council for the Arts and The Vermont Studio Center.

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From Transparent to Opaque: Working in Gouache & Watercolor -
Kathryn Myers
August 5 - 8
Monday -Thursday
1- 4pm
4 Sessions
$380

This course will utilize the opaque qualities of gouache and the transparency of watercolor to create intimately scaled paintings of landscape and architecture derived from both observation and invention. A particular focus of this class will be on how space, decorative elements, and saturated color have been used in Indian miniature painting to create images that shift between two and three-dimensional space. Students may work from life as well as from photographic sources.

Myers has been teaching painting and drawing at the University of Connecticut since 1984. She received an MFA in painting from the University of Wisconsin, Madison and a BA in art from St. Xavier College in Chicago. For the past decade her paintings have been inspired and informed by her immersion in the art and culture of India. She has been the recipient of two Fulbright Fellowships to India in 2002 and 2011.  Other awards include The Marie Walsh Sharpe Foundation, and The Connecticut Commission on the Arts. She has exhibited her work widely in the United States and India.

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Still Life Painting Class – Antonia Ramis Miguel
August 5 – 8
Monday – Thursday
1 – 4pm
4 Sessions
$380

In this class students will refine their skills representing subjects from still life setups. The instructor will work with participants individually and as a group; all levels are welcome.  For beginners, the goal is to create a realistic image equipped with the basic academic skills of drawing such as accurate proportions,
compositional structure and linear perspective that ultimately become a finished, persuasive painting. More advanced participants will work experimentally, exploring possibilities of a more abstract approach to still life. All students will divide their time between drawing and painting. There will be a demonstration from the instructor and a group critique at the end of the week.
“It is not what you paint; it is how you paint it, which makes the difference”

Antonia Ramis-Miguel was trained in Europe and has been painting for more than 20 years. Her work has been shown in her native Spain, Vienna, Washington, D.C. and London. You can view her work at www.antoniaramismiguel.com

 

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Manuscript Illuminations-Dina Brodsky

August 5-8
Monday-Thursday
1-4pm
4 Sessions
$380

The art of manuscript illumination had its beginnings in monasteries during the Middle Ages, and has produced some of the most beautiful art objects of all time. This workshop will explore the traditional pre-Renaissance painting techniques required for manuscript illumination, such as a silverpoint under drawing, egg tempera, gold leaf and burnishing. It will also demonstrate the possibilities of applying some of these techniques to contemporary materials such as acrylic, and oil paint. The class will break down the complexity of an illuminated manuscript into a series of steps that can be applied by the students to incorporate into their own practice.

Brodsky was born in Minsk, Belarus, and immigrated to the U.S. in 1990. She received her BFA from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, and her MFA from the New York Academy of Art. Her painting reflects a desire to combine traditional painting sensibility with contemporary subject manner. She has exhibited extensively in Boston and New York, and her paintings are in many private collections in the United States and abroad. Dina is currently a post-graduate teaching fellow at the New York Academy of Art, and an instructor at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. www.dinabrodsky.com

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Color Explorations with Egg Tempera -Patricia Miranda
August 12-16
9am-12pm
Monday-Friday
5 Sessions
$395

Egg Tempera has been rediscovered as an innovative, color-centric and contemporary medium. An ancient luminous paint that emphasizes pure color and fine drawing, Tempera is ideal for those who love color but hate solvents. Made with egg yolk and mineral pigments, Tempera has many of the glazing qualities of oil paint, yet is water-based, fast-drying and optically brilliant. Egg tempera formed the foundation of western painting and offers a strong core for understanding all paint. Participants will explore color as a conceptual and physical language, learning properties of color, color application, optical mixing- gaining a deeper understanding of all paint.

Miranda is an artist, curator and educator. She is founder and director of Miranda arts project space, formerly Miranda Fine Arts, a contemporary gallery in Port Chester, NY; She has taught at Lyme Academy College of Fine Art and Jersey City University. She is the former director of the gallery at Concordia College-NY. Miranda has been a visiting artist at University of Utah; Kutztown University; Concordia University-MI; and has developed art and education programs at The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, The American Museum of Natural History, The Metropolitan Museum, and the Smithsonian Institute. She was awarded residencies at the Vermont Studio Center and Spring Island Trust, and has exhibited at Wave Hill, Bronx NY; Metaphor Contemporary Art, Brooklyn, NY; the Belvedere Museum, Vienna, Austria; the Cape Museum of Fine Art.

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Using Mixed Media to Discover Your Voice-Lisa Pressman

August 13-16
Tuesday - Friday
9am-2pm (Instruction)
2- 4pm (Open Studio)
Tuesday - Friday
4 Sessions
$425

This workshop is an introduction to the wonderful possibilities of pigment sticks. Pigment sticks are oil paint combined with wax compressed into a stick form. They can be used spontaneously on a surface without the need for brushes. Through various exercises students will explore how to develop their own pictorial vocabulary to use in their art-making studio practice. They will be encouraged to work in series, while reconsidering the painting process. Edge, line, texture, mark making, color and the concept of editing will be addressed. Along with the pigment sticks we will experiment with graphite, ink, cold wax, collage, oil paint and encaustic. Working on multiple panels helps to free the creative spirit so that a personal language and vision can develop into a new series of work. Activities will include exercises, informal group discussion and individual support.

Pressman received her M.F.A. in painting from Bard College and B.A. from Douglass College, Rutgers University. Her work incorporates oils, collage, wax and other mixed media. She has been teaching encaustic painting and painting with R&F Pigments for the past 5 years. Lisa has led classes privately at the Center for Visual Arts, Summit, NJ, the Printmaking Council of NJ, Peter’s Valley Arts and Craft Center, Layton, NJ and the Newark Museum, Newark, NJ. Upcoming workshops are scheduled at R&F Encaustics, Kingston, NY, Snow Farm in Massachusetts and in Cortona, Italy. Lisa lives and works in West Orange, NJ.

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Finding Freedom with Pastels in the Truro Landscape -Rob Dutoit
August 12-18
Monday- Friday
9am-12pm
5 Sessions
$395

Pastels are a wonderful medium and can be a liberating experience. Some of the greatest pastel paintings are just a breath of color on a toned background while others are highly finished pictures built up in layers. In this workshop participants will be working in different locations around Truro. We will focus on simple motifs and learn to build up color from a tonal background as well as using pure color as texture and light. Participants will learn different approaches to using pastel, so as to find what works best while remaining open to experimentation. The emphasis will be on exploration and discovery rather than creating a finished product.

Robert DuToit was born in Boston Massachusetts, 1956. He began painting with oils and drawing with ink at the age of 10. He received a BFA from the University of New Hampshire and an MFA from Parsons School of Design in New York City and has studied for extended periods in France and Italy. An active Cape Artist since the 1980’s, he has been involved in numerous solo and group shows in Boston, New York and the Outer Cape, most recently at Maurice Arlos Gallery in New York and the DNA Gallery in Provincetown. His recent work consists of elemental landscapes of various motifs as well as small direct figure compositions. He now resides in North Truro with his wife Janice Redman and son Alexander.

 

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Still Life Beyond Still Life - Richard Baker
August 12 -16
Monday- Friday
1 -4pm
5 Sessions
$395

This is a workshop for painters with a keen interest in still life painting and a strong desire to push past conventional still life setups. We will begin painting a quick "traditional" arrangement and then collectively explore various ways of extending the tradition into unknown territory. We will consider issues of composition (Can still life move vertically? Can it expand into interior space?) and of subject matter (Are there ways of including representations of the human form? What sorts of objects are not usually common to still life painting?). A serious interest in open-ended, playful exploration is necessary.

Baker attended the Maryland Institute, College of Art and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. His work has been exhibited in group shows nationally and he has had numerous solo exhibitions at the Tibor de Nagy Gallery, and the Joan T. Washburn Gallery in New York and the Albert Merola Gallery in Provincetown as well as shows in New Orleans, San Francisco, Los Angeles and elsewhere. Awards include those from the NY Foundation for the Arts, the New England Foundation for the Arts and the Pollock-Krasner Foundation. He has taught or been a visiting artist at the University of Iowa, Boston University, Fine Arts Work Center, the Rhode Island School of Design, the School of Visual Arts in NY, and others. He currently teaches at the Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University. He is represented by the Tibor de Nagy Gallery in New York and the Albert Merola Gallery in Provincetown.

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Between the Lines: The Gist of Figure Drawing -Stephen Gaffney
August 12 -16
Monday - Friday
1 -4 pm
5 Sessions
$410

 

Are you ready to change the way you think about drawing from life? Participants will learn to create powerful and provocative drawings from 3-7 minute poses that capture the intention, energy, rhythm and structure of the model. Through a succession of exercises and practices, this workshop will explore how to identify components of body structure from rapid study.  Participants will acquire ways to trust your intuition, encouraged to take drawing risks and given permission to let go of the concept of “correctness” when drawing.  All students will experiment with pencil, colored pencil, brush and wash. This class is for both the novice and advanced student.

Gaffney graduated from the NY School of Visual Arts and from the New York Academy of Art, Graduate School of Figurative Art.  He is a drawing instructor at the NY School for Visual Art.  He has exhibited in New York, Connecticut, Atlanta and New Orleans. In 2004 he was a recipient of the Edwin Austin Abbey Mural Fellowship at the National Academy in NY.  Stephen lives and works in Brooklyn, NY with his wife and two children

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Representational Painting: Color & Proportion- Kenneth Hawkey
August 19-23
Monday - Friday
9am - 12pm
5 Sessions
$395

This course for beginner and intermediate artists will concentrate on two of the basic fundamentals necessary to create a likeness in art; color and proportion. The elements of art will be explored as they relate to representational and realist painting, first through simple exercises and lessons in drawing and painting, and then culminating in a working study through the use of the principles discussed in the classroom.  An oil or acrylic painting will then be created. Participants will be taught how to see proportional relationships and  how to see, mix and apply color to their advantage, a process simple enough that they will be able to continue to develop the skill on their own in the future.  Only the primary colors, white and brown will be used. Individual attention and group critiques will enhance the learning experience. Some drawing experience will be helpful. This class is not appropriate for watercolor.

Kenneth Hawkey has lived in Truro since 1991 and has been painting and exhibiting for more than 25 years in Provincetown, Truro and Wellfleet, Massachusetts and in New York’s Capital District. He has worked as a Scenic Designer and Scene Painter in the theater, in corporate art departments and in publishing as both an Art Director and Book Designer all the while continuing with studio art. He has lectured on design and color through many venues across Cape Cod. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from the State University of New York at Geneseo. He has exhibited in many solo, group and juried shows,  received several grant awards to create art, including the Massachusetts Cultural Council, and has recently exhibited two nearly sold out shows right here in Truro. Kenneth is currently represented by Post Office Gallery in North Truro and at Larkin Gallery, Inc. in Provincetown.

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Pigment Wizardry-Special Effects with Pigments and Encaustic-Gregory Wright
August 26 -30
Monday-Friday
9am-12pm (Instruction)
1-4pm (Open Studio)
5 Sessions
$465

This workshop is an exploration of the varied uses and techniques achievable using powered, aqua dispersion, and metallic pigments in encaustic painting. Participants will learn how to use these products to tint encaustic gesso, enhance manufactured paint, and create encaustic paint. We will also combine pigments with a variety of solvents and shellac to create beautiful special effects. We will use powdered pigments as textural enhancements and to create ethereal surfaces.  Basic knowledge of encaustic painting and prior experience working with a propane torch are necessary.  We will discuss how to incorporate these techniques into each artist’s personal painting style. Experimentation will be encouraged. Safety issues will be emphasized and discussed. Each day will end with a group sharing of ideas/critique.

Gregory Wright creates aquatic, cosmic, and microscopic fantasy worlds in his paintings that incorporate mixed media embellishments with encaustic. He is an exuberant presenter and instructor who brings his enthusiasm and innovative techniques to his Conference presentations and workshops. Gregory exhibits and teaches nationally, as well as in the Boston area. In May 2013, he will have a solo exhibition at Galatea Fine Art in Boston.  Gregory is part of R and F Handmade Paints Visiting Artist Series, where he will teach and have a solo exhibition in the Gallery in August of 2013. Last year, Gregory’s focus had been on his curatorial project, Pollination: Beyond The Garden, a thematic group exhibition of works in encaustic, at Artcurrent in Provincetown, Mass. and the Brush Gallery in Lowell, Mass. Gregory is a featured artist in Encaustic Works 2012 juried by Joanne Mattera.  He is a regular presenter and instructor at the International Encaustic Painting Conference each year, held in Provincetown, Mass., as well as an encaustic mixed media extravaganza each summer at Castle Hill in Truro, Mass.

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Watercolor and Inventive Thinking-Vico Fabris
August 26-30
Monday-Friday
9am-12pm
5 Sessions
$395

This course will allow you to experiment, invent and create new combinations of figurative or abstract images with watercolor or acrylic wash. Using visualization, imagination and your own intuition this course is designed to unlock your “inventive thinking”.  You will be able to develop an image that does not exist in the real world.  Also, you will experiment with combinations of techniques to create works of art that appear complex, yet are easy to produce. All the elements of painting are introduced in guided exercises that will be taught in the studio and then taken outdoors.  Works can be done in any scale with watercolor or acrylic wash on Aquabord or preferred watercolor paper.  Flexibility and open-mindedness are essential to reach your full potential. This course is appropriate for beginners as well as more advanced students.

Fabbris was born in Northern Italy.  From an early age he copied works by Leonardo, Raphael, and Caravaggio.  In Florence, he became a Maestro d’Arte completing a MFA painting curriculum at the Accademia di Belle Arti.  Vico's accomplishments include: a major one-person show at Forum Gallery in Los Angeles; a two-time recipient of the Massachusetts Cultural Council Grant in painting; twice finalist of the Blanche Coleman Award; selected by Beth Venn of the Whitney Museum for the Northeast catalogue of New American Painting and commissioned to do a lithograph for Muka Print Project in Auckland, New Zealand.  His work has been exhibited at the PAAM, the Cape Museum of Fine Arts, Giardino Botanico, Florence, Italy, and galleries in Florida, New York and Los Angeles. Articles on his work have appeared in the Boston Globe, The Nation, Art New England, artsMEDIA.  Vico is currently Senior Lecturer at the New England School of Art and Design at Suffolk University, Boston where he has taught drawing and painting since 1995. His work is in many private and corporate collections. Fabbris is represented by Gurari Collections, Boston, Rice Polak Gallery, Provincetown and Graficas Gallery, Nantucket.

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Color, Light, and Landscape-William Papaleo
August 26-30
Monday - Friday
9am -12pm
5 Sessions
$395

The focus of this workshop will be on using color as a vehicle to heighten perception of nature and create a personal vision of it. With a richer understanding of light and mass, it becomes easier for students to use color to produce original, intuitive reactions to landscape. It also allows them to improve their drawing skills with a painter’s sensitivity, and avoid conventional rendering. Students may choose to work with pastel, watercolor and/or oils.  We will work in various parts of the Truro landscape and from memory. Students will be encouraged to use different grounds and papers to gain knowledge and proficiency in their preferred medium.

Papaleo has been teaching and painting in Italy over the past 20 years, while creating a bridge to the United States through his workshops and galleries in New York, Washington DC, Rhode Island and Provincetown. Robert Beverly Hale at the Art Students League and Henry Hensche at the Cape School were influential in his artistic formation in America. In Italy, he studied and practiced in ancient and modern oil and fresco techniques with Antonio Montagna in various churches in Piemonte and Lombardy and figure and etching at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Naples. Synthesizing classical and modern techniques, his goal is to give students solid technique to free them to discover their individual voice. www.williampapaleo.it

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Drawing Into Painting -Megan Hinton
August 13-17
Monday-Friday
1 -4pm
5 Sessions
Castle Hill
$380

Historically drawing has always informed and been the precursor to the practice of painting. In today’s contemporary art world drawing is often the main focus of artistic practice. Drawing and painting continually cross over. Much argument of the differences or similarities between painting and drawing exists in current artistic discourse and studio practice. This class will explore the differences and similarities between drawing and painting concepts and media. The workshop will use of a variety of drawing materials and methods merge with the practice of painting. This approach of considering drawing as a path to painting will help participants achieve a repertoire of painterly mark-making approaches that may open up doors to more imaginative, abstract, or experimental work.

Megan Hinton’s paintings and works on paper have been exhibited throughout North America. She shows her work at the William Scott Gallery in Provincetown, MA, the Old Spouter Gallery on Nantucket, and the Munson Gallery in Chatham, MA.  Hinton holds degrees from Ohio Wesleyan University, the School of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, and New York University.  She has been awarded the Dorothy Getz fellowship from Ohio Wesleyan, the C-Scape Dune Shack artist residency from the Provincetown Compact, and twice a print studio fellowship from the Women’s Studio Workshop in New York. Hinton’s work is included in the permanent collections of the Cape Cod Museum of Art and the Provincetown Art Association and Museum. In 2012 her work will be included in a three person exhibition at the Krause Gallery of the Moses Brown School in Providence, RI, followed by a solo show of her work at the Carver Hill Gallery in Rockland, ME. Megan is an avid traveler and admirer of the ocean, both of which inform her work.

Miniature Portraiture-Maya Brodsky August 26-30 Monday-Friday 1-4pm 5 Sessions $395 In this class, students will create a series of small portraits based on photographs that they bring in.  Through a series of exercises and demonstrations, students will review the anatomy of the face and of human expressions while learning an indirect painting technique, traditionally used by artists such as Van Eyck and Rembrandt to build up the painting in multiple layers.  We will study the light and shadows that define the form of the face, as well as the color palette that most expressively describes skin.  Students will experiment with a variety of surface sizes to determine their optimal painting size.  We will discuss what makes a painted portrait truly express the likeness of person beyond anatomical accuracy.  We will explore what it means to make a series of portraits.  Through size, color, composition and expression, portraits can converse with one another when presented together and express something very different than when viewed alone.

Brodsky emigrated from Belarus to the US in 1990.  She received Bachelors degrees in philosophy and fine arts from the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 2008, as well as an MFA from the New York Academy of Art in 2010.  Her paintings are inspired by notions concerning the connection between past and present and how one’s memory of the past is formed and changed visually.  She has been the recipient of several awards, including the New York Academy of Art Post-Graduate Fellowship, the Posey Foundation scholarship, and the Vasari Award for Excellence in Painting.  Her work is represented by RARE gallery in New York.

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The Joyce Johnson Chair honors:

The Anatomy of your Painting -Joan Synder
September 2 -6
Monday -Friday
9am -12pm
(open studio 1-4)
5 Sessions
$800

 

This workshop will explore the process of making a painting from the beginning to the end. What is under there and why?  What is covered up? What ends up on top, for all to see? Sorting out the many layers of a work and examining what happens in between will lead to discussions of the materials used to make a work and ways to capture the magic, moments when you can let go and not think about any of these things. We will have a week of you working, me looking and talking, and group discussions and individual and group critiques.

Born April 16, 1940, in Highland Park, NJ, Snyder received her A.B. from Douglass College, New Brunswick, NJ, in 1962 and her M.F.A. from Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, in 1966. She is often called an autobiographical or confessional artist, her subjects range from the landscape to love, death, motherhood, sex and politics. Her paintings frequently contain text as well as such materials, as herbs, mud, silk, straw, flowers, and seeds.

Snyder was a recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship and she received a MacArthur Fellowship.  Snyder first gained public attention in the 1970's with her abstract "stroke paintings" which were included in the Whitney 1973 Biennial and the Corcoran 1975 Biennial, and formed the basis of her first solo shows in NYC and San Francisco. Snyder’s work is in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, The New York City Jewish Museum, The Guggenheim, The High Museum of Art and The Phillips Collections. The Jewish Museum in New York City presented a 35-year survey of her work which traveled to the Danforth Museum in Framingham, Massachusetts.  Abrams Books published a monograph, Joan Snyder, in conjunction with the exhibit. In 2011, "Dancing With The Dark: Joan Snyder Prints 1963-2010", a traveling retrospective of Snyder's prints, opened at the Zimmerli Art Museum in New Jersey and will be accompanied by a catalogue with essays by Faye Hirsch and Marilyn Symmes.

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From the Literal to the Poetic; Working from the Model, Drawing, Painting, Collage, and Sculpture -Ken Kewley
September 20 - 22
Friday - Sunday
8:30 am - 4:30pm
3 Sessions
$800

From the Literal to the Poetic: Working from the Model - Drawing, Painting, Collage and Sculpture.
A figure workshop exploring a combination of ways to work with the model that will take us far away from rendering toward the more thrilling realm of composing and closer to the excitement of reality.
Drawing will be used to simplify form. Painting with acrylic on paper, will be used to compare and relate color. Creating collages with cut color paper will be used to push color and form and to make further adjustments to our paintings. Making sculptures will develop our understanding of space. Corrugated cardboard, masking tape, and acrylic paint will be used to make small stage settings and figures after the model. We will draw, paint, and collage from these sculptures. Then, with our expanded sense of space and abstraction, we will go back to working directly from the model.  The workshop will be fast paced, and will equip us with many ways to push our figurative work, with or without a live model, once back in our own studios.

Kewley graduated from the College of Creative Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. While living in New York City, he was a night watch at the Metropolitan Museum of Art 1980-1990 and considers this a major part of his education. Kewley has exhibited his work nationally and internationally, most recently in a 2012 exhibition of paintings and collages at Rothschild Fine Art in Tel Aviv. In New York his work has been exhibited at Steven Harvey Fine Art Projects, Lori Bookstein Fine Art and Pavel Zoubok. He has taught workshops and lectured at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Hollins University, University of Arkansas, National Academy of Design, and the Jerusalem Studio School and its Italian Summer Program. His work is included in many private and public collections and has been reviewed in the New York Times, New York Sun, ARTnews, and the New York Observer.

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The Perceptual Moment - Stuart Shils
September 20 - 22
Friday - Sunday
8:30 am - 4:30pm
3 Days + Thursday night lecture, 6:00 pm
$950

During these three days we are focusing on cultivating perceptual discrimination and visual clarity by understanding close, critical looking at nature and, the relation of that to constructing a drawing or painting. We’re asking ourselves exactly what we are seeing, how we are seeing, and then what to make of it on paper, panel or canvas. The class is intended to push the mid- range to advanced painter further into a kind of visual boot camp, that is also fun and productive.  In the tradition/spirit of “first strike” or alla prima, emphasis will be placed on 1) examining the perceptual processes in front of nature; 2) the editorial response that follows in the head of the painter and how that takes form graphically; 3) and perhaps most importantly, on shaking up and/or questioning what is meant by “finish”.  We’re not concerned here with making anything “pretty”, sale - able or trophy-winning.  With painting, one never really gets a trophy anyway – it’s always work in progress.

In addition to full day outdoor sessions, on the evening before the first day there will be a 90 minute slide talk presenting paintings and drawings made by past and modern masters, to lay out a foundation of visual themes for the next three days. (All participants should please attend, as it will be impossible to go over the same ground the next morning.) Within those slides I’ll discuss how, via graphic organization, we look at/and or make sense of construction, paint and drawing language, and how different artists have used the processes of working outside (both directly and in the studio) to achieve visual unity in their responses.

Shils (b. 1954), Philadelphia, has painted outside for more than 30 years. His paintings are represented by Steven Harvey Fine Art Projects in New York, Davis and Langdale, New York and Rothchild Fine Art in Tel Aviv.  Shils is the recipient of a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, a Ballinglen Arts Foundation Fellowship for Residency in Ballycastle, Ireland, and an Academy Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His work has been presented in solo shows in New York, Philadelphia, Tel Aviv, Boston, Scottsdale, Richmond, San Francisco and Cork (Ireland).  Critical review and commentary has appeared in newspapers, journals and magazines, including: The New York Times, The New Yorker, The New York Sun, Ha'aretz, The Jerusalem Post, Art Critical.com, The Wall Street Journal, The Boston Globe, The Boston Phoenix, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Irish Times, Art in America, The New Republic, The New Criterion, Art New England, American Artist, The Hudson Review and The Philadelphia Daily News. For more than a decade he has been an annual visiting critic at the Vermont Studio Center (VSC).   He is weekly critic at Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) where he also teaches painting and drawing.  Shils has also taught the master class for the Jerusalem Studio School in Italy and Jerusalem.   Between 1994 and 2006, Shils spent 13 summers painting on the northwest coast of Ireland, an extended painting campaign described in the PBS film documentary, “Ballycastle,” which was presented nationally and won numerous awards, including First Place for Documentary Excellence, Society for Professional Journalists. Shils studied at The Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts with Seymour Remenick and at the Philadelphia College of Art.

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