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Seascapes: How to Pastel Paint
April 14 @ 11:30 am - 1:30 pm
This program is funded by the Bernardston Cultural Council which receives grants from the Massachusetts Cultural Council and is free.
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This Sunday, April 14th at 11:30 am, the Bernardston Unitarian Meetinghouse “Arts and Activism Program” will host “Seascapes: How to Pastel Paint,” a workshop inspired by Winslow Homer with all materials provided. Award-winning pastel artist Gregory John Maichack will present “Seascapes,” a pastel painting workshop for adults and teens 18+. This is a pastel painting workshop designed for both sheer beginners to advanced participants.
Please call or text 413-330-0807 and provide your name and email or phone number to pre-register.
The Historic 1739 Bernardston Unitarian Meetinghouse is at 49 Church St. across from Dunkin Donuts and the gas station. The Workshop is 11:30am to 1:30pm.
This all-new “Seascapes: How to Pastel Paint,” is inspired by Winslow Homer’s painting “Summer Squall,” and “West Point, Prout’s Neck.” For the first time we create the wave effect of spray, embedding pigment particles into the painting. This is fun, and
has an ocean of possibilities, having instruction in expressive pastel strokes, blending, slurring, and layering. All participants keep their 12 X 18 pastel painting of their personalized vivid seascape and waves. Photo references of waves are supplied for ideas allowing unfathomable possibilities. Maichack’s own pastel painted work will unveil the process. All will be entertained by lively anecdotes on Winslow Homer.
has an ocean of possibilities, having instruction in expressive pastel strokes, blending, slurring, and layering. All participants keep their 12 X 18 pastel painting of their personalized vivid seascape and waves. Photo references of waves are supplied for ideas allowing unfathomable possibilities. Maichack’s own pastel painted work will unveil the process. All will be entertained by lively anecdotes on Winslow Homer.
Come have a rewarding experience that will surprise you whether you are a novice or experienced artist.
Gregory Maichack Workshop Calendar and website: http://gregorymaichack.com/calendar/
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About Gregory Maichack: Greg is a gifted teacher and we have had many of his workshops at the Meetinghouse. They are always fun and rewarding and we are so fortunate to be able to offer the workshop free of charge, thanks to the MASS and Bernardston Cultural Councils.
Maichack, is an award-winning artist, twice Mass. Cultural Council Gold Star Award
Program nominee, a seasoned pro from instructing at the Museum of Fine Arts (MFA)
Boston, colleges, and local libraries. Maichack lives in the Berkshires and is a portraitist
and painter working primarily in pastels. Winner of the Award of Merit from the
Bennington Center for the Arts: Impressions of New England Show 2003, he also was
awarded the Savoir-faire Pastel Award from the Great Lakes Pastel Society.
Maichack was commissioned by Westfield State College to paint the pastel portrait of the
past president of Westfield State University, Doctor Frederick Woodward, which was
unveiled at the dedication of the Woodward Center; and pastel painted dictionary great
Charles Merriam, unveiled by Merriam-Webster Co. at Merriam-Gilbert Library. He has
been in many national juried shows and was awarded numerous Massachusetts Cultural
Council grants. In addition to portraiture, his still lifes and landscapes are represented by
galleries from Kennebunkport, Maine to San Francisco, California. Maichack is
accepting requests to do various commissions to do pastel paintings.Visit his web site at
www.GregoryMaichack.com .
Maichack has been a faculty member of the Museum Studio School in the Fine Arts Museum
Quadrangle in Springfield, MA; and taught at Holyoke and Greenfield Community Colleges,
Westfield State University, East Works, the MFA, Boston, and The Guild, Northampton. Maichack’s pastel paintings have been selected twice for the Annual National Exhibition of the Academic Artists Association and as a result Maichack was invited to be a member of this prestigious organization.
Program nominee, a seasoned pro from instructing at the Museum of Fine Arts (MFA)
Boston, colleges, and local libraries. Maichack lives in the Berkshires and is a portraitist
and painter working primarily in pastels. Winner of the Award of Merit from the
Bennington Center for the Arts: Impressions of New England Show 2003, he also was
awarded the Savoir-faire Pastel Award from the Great Lakes Pastel Society.
Maichack was commissioned by Westfield State College to paint the pastel portrait of the
past president of Westfield State University, Doctor Frederick Woodward, which was
unveiled at the dedication of the Woodward Center; and pastel painted dictionary great
Charles Merriam, unveiled by Merriam-Webster Co. at Merriam-Gilbert Library. He has
been in many national juried shows and was awarded numerous Massachusetts Cultural
Council grants. In addition to portraiture, his still lifes and landscapes are represented by
galleries from Kennebunkport, Maine to San Francisco, California. Maichack is
accepting requests to do various commissions to do pastel paintings.Visit his web site at
www.GregoryMaichack.com .
Maichack has been a faculty member of the Museum Studio School in the Fine Arts Museum
Quadrangle in Springfield, MA; and taught at Holyoke and Greenfield Community Colleges,
Westfield State University, East Works, the MFA, Boston, and The Guild, Northampton. Maichack’s pastel paintings have been selected twice for the Annual National Exhibition of the Academic Artists Association and as a result Maichack was invited to be a member of this prestigious organization.