Painting Summer Light with Nancy McCarthy

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 a discussion of the issues, tools and procedures unique to paint outdoors.  Each morning a one-sitting painting will be completed.  Those who have painted outdoors many times or those doing so for the first time are welcome to join this intensive 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.  Her paintings express a keen interest in color and surface.  Her work has been shown in a variety of solo and group shows including Sloane merrily Gallery, Boston; Larkin Gallery, Provincetown, MA; Fitchburg University; The Abbey, Brooklyn, NY; Harvard University; Simmons College; Post Office Gallery, Truro, MFA Out Museum, Bejing, China; St. Botolph Club Foundation Artist’s Grant; Vermont Studio Center Artists’s Grant and a Ragdale Foundation Fellowship.  She teaches at Massachusetts College of Art and Design in Boston and has served as a mentor in both MassArt’s and Lesley University’s low residency MFA programs.