Level: all

Fridays

Feb 26

10:30 am - 12:00 pm

Instructor: Nancy McTague-Stock

Fee: $135

“How to Draw Flowers in a Variety of Media”

NEW DATES:  Fridays, Feb 26 –  March 19 (10:30 – noon) in the RAC Studio!

Spring is almost here and enjoying flowers can be enhanced by drawing them!

Working from life and photographs of flowers, you’ll learn to hone your observational skills and develop techniques needed to re-create detail, natural color and convincing form.   A new medium will be introduced each week, giving students the ability to experiment with a variety of rendering methods.  Students will have the chance to work with pencil, colored pencil, pen and ink, and watercolor.  Try a new media each week, or work with your favorite!

NOTE: This workshop will be taught live in RAC’s studio.  All students are asked to wear masks and to abide by social distancing rules.  See note below regarding RAC’s covid compliance.

SUPPLIES:

  • HB, H and F pencils
  • White eraser or ‘retractable eraser pen’ from Pentel
  • Hot press watercolor paper, 140 lb. (you may use a watercolor block if you already have one, or share a Fabriano pad with a friend!)   (Size of your choice: 5×7, 8×10, 9×12 or individual sheets to be torn down are fine!)
  • Alternative media: (Not necessary, only choose what you may desire)  Micron permanent marker pens in size .005, .05, .03,  Watercolors,   size 6 round brush,  Prismacolor Colored Pencils – largest set for optimal color choices,  Prismacolor Watercolor Pencils

About the Instructor:

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/

A note about Covid compliance:  You can be assured that RAC is doing everything possible to keep its customers and staff safe from the Corona Virus.  Our studio is spacious and airy with excellent air circulation and plenty of room for people to stay safely distanced from one another.  While our studio can easily accommodate up to 20 people, we are only allowing a maximum of six students and one teacher at a time.   Every student will have a table of their own on which to work and will have their own set of supplies.

Students and teachers will have their temperature taken before entry into the classroom.  Everyone will be asked to wear masks and have their hands sanitized before and after every class.  Hand sanitizer will be available at the entrance and exits to the studio and all shared spaces and equipment will be thoroughly disinfected before and after every class.   As always, please do not come to the studio if you are feeling sick or have the following symptoms:  cough, fever, shortness of breath (other than the excitement of seeing us), sudden loss of smell or taste, chills, body aches, or sore throat.

One of Nancy’s mixed media botanicals in mid process

 

 

 

 

 

Nancy’s “Tulips” a quick charcoal sketch