Level: prior experience with watercolors

June 10 - July 1, 2024

Mondays

2:30-4:00pm

4 weeks

Instructor: Nancy McTague Stock

Instructor's website

Fee: $130

This class is for students who are advanced beginners, who have had previous experience with the watercolor medium, (such as having completed Nancy’s Intro to Watercolors course or her How to Draw Flowers course)

Working with traditional English watercolor techniques, we will continue to explore processes beyond simple washes and layering. Learn how to create more complex compositions, move from photographic references to observational set-ups while adding exciting methodologies to further your comfort level with this medium!

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/

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.   Every student will have a 5′-6′ foot table of their own on which to work and will have their own set of supplies.

Note it is required that students to be vaccinated and wear masks.  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.