This three-day intensive workshop will consist of multiple daily exercises, or prompts, to train the painter not to be tentative, more intuitive, and to develop a free lyrical approach to painting.  Individual and collaborative prompts will be assigned after the instructor’s demonstration.  Color mixing, paint application, and subject matter will be discussed. Group and individual evaluation of prompt outcomes will occur to progress and grow with further assignments and beyond the workshop. Painting students will leave the workshop with a sense of confidence and ideas about approaching the medium to become a more well-rounded and prolific painter. We will start each session with a brief visit to the museum to look at relevant paintings to enlighten and inspire the class participants.

Some painting experience is recommended. Students can work in either acrylic or oil based paint.  This class is for the beginning to advanced painter.

Megan Hinton has been exhibiting her work in New England and beyond for over fifteen years.  She shows her work at The Old Spouter Gallery on Nantucket, MA and The Carver Hill Gallery in Rockland, Maine. Hinton holds degrees from Ohio Wesleyan University, The School of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, and New York University.  Hinton has been awarded artist residencies from The Women’s Studio Workshop, The Vermont Studio Center, Nantucket Island School of Design, and Les Amis de la Grande Vigne in Brittany, France. She has been the recipient of two local Massachusetts Cultural Council grants for recent exhibitions in Wellfleet, Massachusetts at Preservation Hall and The Harbor Stage Company.   Her paintings are included in the permanent collections of The Cape Cod Museum of Art, the Provincetown Art Association and Museum, and The Artists Association of Nantucket.  Hinton is a published art writer, art educator, and avid traveler. Her work can be found at http://meganhinton.com/