Level: Int-Adv

Jan 6 - Feb 24, 2025

Mondays

2:30-4pm

8 weeks

Instructor: Nancy McTague-Stock

Instructor's website

Fee: $260

This is an advanced watercolor class for students who have taken prior watercolor classes with Nancy, and have received permission from Nancy to enroll in this class.  Prospective students who haven not previously studied with Nancy will have to go through a short interview process with Nancy before being admitted to the class.

Following an independent study format, each artist focuses on their own subject matter and criteria. Working with traditional English watercolor techniques, Nancy will assist you to explore processes beyond simple washes and layering. Create more complex compositions, move from photographic references to observational set-ups if you desire, while adding exciting methodologies to further your comfort level with this medium in a supportive environment.

Suggested Supply list: (All supplies available for purchase at Jerry’s Artarama in Norwalk on online)

  • Paper: Fabriano HOT PRESS, 140 lb. watercolor block – very important…100% cotton.  Preferred size: Either 5 x 7, 8 x 10
  • Paint: TRANSPARENT watercolor set – Please get either Winsor Newton ½ pan set or  Jerry Q is a less expensive brand. A set of 12 colors is fine. You may et a larger set if you prefer!
  • Brushes: Please get one sable hair size 6 pointed round brush, One Hake brush, 1” or 1.5” wide, one  flat or angled brush ¾” is fine. If you happen to have a squirrel mop brush, that would be great too, Raphael or da Vinci make nice ones.  Size 1 or 2. ( extra, not necessary!)
  • Pencils:  4H, 2H
  • Erasers: White STAEDLER brand eraser, Pentel brand retractable three sided Eraser
  • Ruler:  12”x 2”  WESTCOTT brand, clear ruler with grid pattern in red. Please do not substitute!
  • Tape:   ¼” wide white artist’s tape roll
  • One water jar – glass jam, preserve or pickle jars work really well! 🙂
  • Paper towels: One roll of Bounty paper towels
  • Extras: Small box of q-tips
  • Lastly…..YOUR ENERGY!!!!  We will do all the rest together!

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/