About the Workshop

Skill level: Open to all levels, although artists with at least some basic landscape painting experience will benefit most.

Materials used: Oil (Acrylic and water-soluble oils are fine too)

In this workshop, you’ll learn how to break the figure down into simple shapes and to ensure accurate drawing from the start, even if you have never painted a figure! Through lecture and painting exercises, Nancy will help you select photographs that will make great paintings. She’ll demonstrate her methods of working with photos in order to produce a painting that looks as though it were painted from life and is full of life! You’ll learn to create atmosphere, merge the figure with the background, and avoid copying and make intelligent decisions about the information that a photo gives you. Description to come.

NANCY TANKERSLEY

Contemporary Impressionist

Nancy Tankersley began her career as a portraitist but entered the gallery scene with figurative paintings of people at work and at leisure. Currently as she searches for the unpredictable, Tankersley moves between landscape, figures and still life. Incorporating non- traditional tools , supports and technologies for her paintings she remains faithful to her impressionistic style.

Active in the current plein air movement, and a founder of Plein Air Easton, she travels worldwide participating in competitions, judging and teaching. In 2018,2019 and 2020  she was invited to be an instructor and demonstrator at the Plein Air Convention in Santa Fe and released two instructional videos with Lilliedahl Videos. In 2016 and 2017 she was invited to exhibit at the prestigious Masters Exhibition at the Salmagundi Club in NYC. Recent honors include Best of Show at Parrsboro, Nova Scotia International Plein Air 2018, Best of Show at the Lighthouse Plein Air Festival 2017 and the Dickinson Award for Best Painting by a Signature Member of the American Impressionist Society 2016 Annual Juried Exhibit. In 2019 she was selected to be the Featured Artist at the 49th Waterfowl Festival in Easton, Maryland. In 2024 she was honored to be the judge at the 20th Anniversary of Plein Air Easton. In 2025, at Plein Air Easton, she received the Alumni Award for her painting of conserved property at the Chesapeake Bay Environmental Center. She is a Signature Member of the American Impressionist Society, the American Society for Marine Art, and the Mid-Atlantic Plein Air Painters and is a juried  member of the Washington Society for Landscape Painters. The artist mentors and teaches workshops nationally and internationally.

What’s Included

This workshop includes a mix of complimentary food and beverages. Included are the following:

• Complimentary continental breakfast: yogurt, granola, hard boiled eggs, pastries and fruit. Along with unlimited coffee and teas. GF is available.

• Coffee, hot and/or iced tea, lemonade, soft drinks, sparkling waters, and fruit-infused still water are available all day

• Catered lunch brought into the studio or painting location for $20 (optional)

Supplies

The supply list for this class will be posted shortly.