Thursday

Jul 16

4:30 pm - 6:00 pm

Nancy McTague-Stock

Fee: $30 + $15 extra if you need supplies

In this relaxing workshop, Nancy will introduce you to the joy of painting with watercolors. If you’re curious about how to work with watercolor, this is the workshop for you! 

Nancy will talk about supplies (i.e. paints, brushes, paper), how to set up your palette, how to mix colors and how to apply paint to paper.  It’s  a great workshop for artists new to watercolor and for those who could use a review. Expect to complete a painting by the end of class.

No prior experience with watercolor is necessary.  And, no worries if you don’t have supplies.  For an additional $15, RAC will deliver painting supplies to any participant living within a 15 mile radius of Rowayton, CT. 

Thursday, July 16th, 4:30-6pm – online using Zoom

Materials:*

  • 5 x 7 cold pressed watercolor paper, 140 lb. is preferred  (2-3 sheets)
  • 1 watercolor ROUND brush in size 6 is great; additional smaller brushes if you already have them is added bonus!
  • 1 watercolor set of any size
  • 1 container of clean water
  • 1 container for ‘wash’ water
  • Bounty paper towels – 1 full sheet cut in half is fine
  • A few q-tips if you want
  • 1 pencil, H or HB
  • 1 WHITE plastic eraser, Staedler is a good brand if you need one

*We will send you a photo to reference before class, however, if you prefer to work from your own photo, that is fine too.

This class will taught online using Zoom.  Once we process your registration, we will send you an invitation to the Zoom meeting. 

About Nancy

Artist Nancy McTague-Stock credits early exposure to environmental experiences as the impetus for her life long artistic focus.  Her environmentally focused imagery centrally highlights the fragility of nature in an increasingly technocentric world, through an amalgam of painting, printmaking and contemporary photographic media. Her work is observation-based, with a strong conceptual sensibility and superb craftsmanship.

Nancy McTague-Stock was a Fellowship Recipient for post-graduate work at The Slade School of Art at the University of London in Experimental Drawing. She received an MFA from The Art Institute of Boston in Visual Studies in New Media, with mentors inclusive of Dike Blair, Judith Barry, Richard Klein, Anthony Apesos & Sunanda Sunyal. She holds a Marketing Strategy Certificate from Cornell University’s Johnson Graduate School of Management, and a BFA from Virginia Commonwealth University in Metalsmithing and Textiles, with specialty training in ancient jewelry techniques from the Kulicke Stark Academy for Jewelry Art in New York with Bob Kulicke.

Ms. McTague-Stock has been the recipient of many awards, residencies, grants and fellowships. Her work has been exhibited in group exhibitions at over ten museums,  solo/group shows in galleries and universities in Bulgaria, Canada, China, Denmark, Great Britain, Ireland, Latvia, New Zealand, Portugal, Serbia and in the U.S., from Los Angeles to New York.  Nancy’s work has appeared in such publications as the New York Times, Studio Visit Magazine, Plein Air Magazine, Art New England Magazine, Hearst Media, The Woven Tale Press, VCU Arts, CBS Connecticut, Connecticut Post, EastCoast Home & Design, New England Home, Moffly Media, and VENU Magazine, among others.  Her work is collected by private and public institutions worldwide, including most recent acquisitions of her work by Yale University’s Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, The Library of Congress in Washington, D.C., The Douro Museum Printmaking Biennial Collection in Portugal and The Chateau Orquevaux Permanent Collection in France.

Nancy’s experience in a wide variety of media is extensive, with an environmental focus in her series of projects. She has created commissioned, community-focused, interactive installations and designed community participation projects, global artistic exchanges and outreach programs, working with students and artists from young to old. A periodic lecturer about contemporary art, environment and culture, Nancy has served for over twenty five years as a teacher, college counselor, artists’ mentor, arts writer, curator and juror for many academic, private and public institutions for exhibitions, including The Prince of Wales Foundation in the UK. Nancy lives on a nature preserve in Connecticut, providing a constant source of fodder for her work and maintains her permanent studio in the United States.

To learn more about Nancy, visit her website https://nancymctaguestock.com/