Instructors: Nancy McCarthy
Monday - Friday
August 12 - 16
9am - 1pm
5 sessions

Those who have painted outdoors many times or who are doing so for the first time are welcome to this outdoor painting experience. Observing and responding to the energy of the natural world enriches our visual vocabulary. We will simplify and summarize the complex landscape into shapes of specific value and hue, starting with a series of exercises to encourage rapid work with large brushes and palette knives. Over the five mornings students will complete four one-sitting paintings. The workshop will begin with in-studio color mixing exercises, a discussion of the issues, tools and practices unique to painting outdoors,and an image presentation of the work of contemporary and historical landscape painters. Truro’s fields, salt marshes, scrub pines, and sea vistas will provide our content. An indoor studio space will be used if rain interrupts us. All mediums are welcome.

Nancy McCarthy is a painter based in Rehoboth, MA. Recent exhibitions include “Flora,” at First Street Gallery, NYC and  “Blooming” and the “In, Of, On Paper'' shows at There Gallery, NYC. Awards include Visiting Artist, Beijing Royal School; residency at Inside Out Museum, Beijing; a St. Botolph Foundation Award; Vermont Studio Center Artist's Grant; and a Ragdale Foundation Fellowship. Her work is represented by the Larkin Gallery, Provincetown, MA and Zeuxis, NYC. She teaches at Massachusetts College of Art and Design in Boston, MA. and is co-owner of Black Pond Studio, Rehoboth, MA. nancymccarthypainting.com