Color rules but there are NO rules, no formulas, and no tricks. There is intention — getting color to say what you want it to say. This course will combine painting in the field with color studies done in the studio. In the spectacular environment of the lower Cape, we will simplify complex vistas into shapes of specific value and hue. In the studio we will use color studies to help us understand how color works. This workshop is meant for those who want to energize their work in any medium with better color; no painting experience is required. We will work with acrylic gouache on paper or the medium of your choice.

Nancy McCarthy is a Boston-based painter who works both abstractly and from observation. Exhibitions include a solo exhibition at Fitchburg State University in 2013; Manifest Drawing and Painting Center, Cincinnati, Ohio; 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 2014 Residency at Inside/Out Museum, Beijing, China, a 2009 St. Botolph Foundation Award, Artist’s Grant, Vermont Studio Center and a Ragdale Foundation Fellowship. She has served as a mentor in MassArt’s low residency MFA Program and teaches painting, drawing and color courses at Massachusetts College of Art and Design in Boston. She has also taught at Assumption College in Worcester Mass., and the Washington Art Association in Washington, Conn. Her work is represented by the Post Office Gallery in Truro, Mass. nancymccarthypainting.com