Abigail McBride is a nationally recognized plein air and portrait painter. She is a consummate colorist in the Cape Cod tradition with a rich academic understanding of the figure. Her dynamic personalized teaching style aims to give each student the push they need to take their work to the next level.
Abigail doesn’t like to be tied down. She paints it all: landscape, still life, portrait and figure both plein air and in the studio. Her work has been seen in national publications, galleries and museums since 2000. She has received honors from MAPAPA, Plein Air Easton, AIS, OPA, RayMar, BWS and the Portrait Society of America.

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MONDAY EVENING PORTRAIT

Express the Essence – Evening Portrait
March 2, 9, 23 & 30   2020
6-8:30pm

In March we return to working with live models. Learn to make expressive editing decisions for a more dynamic image. Practice establishing likeness with proportions. Drop in, 3 week and 4 week. All Media.

4 weeks $175
[wpecpp name=”Abigail-Evening4wk” price=”180.00″]

3 weeks $135
[wpecpp name=”Abigail-Evening3wk” price=”141.00″]

Drop in $55
[wpecpp name=”Abigail-EveningDropIn” price=”57.00″]

 

This class runs in 3 – 6 week topical sections.
examples: expressions, edges, likeness, anatomy

Abigail McBride Portrait Abigail McBride Portrait


SCHEDULE
Class meets on Monday Evenings 6-8:30pm. It is organized into 3 – 6 week topical sections. The 4 week option allows you to take any 4 classes within the current 6 week section. Or if your schedule is crazy there is always the option to drop into one class.

LIVE MODELS
We work from live models. There is an $8/class model fee paid separately from tuition on the first day of class. Pay the model fee for the entire section on the first day.

THIS IS AN ALL MEDIA CLASS
Bring the materials you are the most comfortable manipulating. My demos will be in Charcoal and Oil. Intensive Classes & Workshops may have specific material requirements such as charcoal only or oil painting only.

ALL LEVELS
We regularly have a wide mix of experience levels in this class. For some it is their first time drawing people for others it is already a professional career. Each class begins with a short lecture/demonstration. Then we work from the models as I come around giving individual instruction to each student. I specialize in getting to know my students, mind reading what they are thinking about in their work and coaching them to the next level. It’s fun and so exciting to see the work develop.

FUN!
Students currently registered in the class are welcome to join us for the 5pm Pre-class Happy Hour at Frix’s Fire Grill or the local Starbucks.

Charcoal Materials List

Note: Regular Monday Evening Portrait is all media: bring what you like, color classes and plein air workshops are in oil. Three Week Intensives and Workshops tend to have specific material requirements (like drawing only, or oil painting only)
• Charcoal Drawing Paper -Strathmore is a common paper
• box of Vine Thin Extra Soft Charcoal
• A smooth board with Clamps -bankers clasps, spring clips, etc..
• Sandpaper disc (to sharpen charcoal)
• Erasers: Kneaded, Chamois (Shammy), Mop watercolor brush
• Long handled sable or bristle bright brush about 1/8 inch across
• Tortillion stumps (Twisted paper), Blender Stumps (Felt)

Oil Materials List

• Canvas or Boards (I use RayMar)
• box of Vine Thin Extra Soft Charcoal
• Palette (I use New Wave)
• Brushes – Rosemary is best and you get what you pay for.
• Palette knife/Painting Knife – you only need one.
(Dick Blick RGM 50, Creative Mark T17 or Holbein Series S No. 37 or 41)
• Odorless Mineral Spirits (Gamsol)
• Paper Towels or Rags (I use Bounty)
• Oil Paints
(I use Gamblin, Rembrandt, Michael Harding, Rubilev, Windsor Newton and Vasari)
*Titanium White
*Black
*Cadmium Lemon
Cadmium Yellow or Yellow Medium
Cadmium Orange
Transparent Orange (Gamblin)
Cadmium Red (Micheal Harding) or Perylene Red (Gamblin)
*Alizarin
Permanent Rose
Permanent Magenta
Caput Mortem Violet (Rembrant)
*Dioxazine Violet
*Ultramarine Blue
Cerulean Blue (addicted to Vasari’s Cerulean)
Viridian
Yellow Ochre
*Transparent Oxide Brown
*Use these only if you want a more limited palette

THE MENTORING PROGRAM

The mentoring program offers one on one personalized instruction. We will determine your personal artistic goals and tailor our time to helping you achieve them.

Abigail McBride mentoring schedule:
9pm-10pm on Monday evenings. They follow the same calendar as her Monday evening weekly portrait class. So if there is a break in the Monday class there is no private lesson either.

SOLO lessons
• $690 for 6 weeks of mentoring, $115/week[wpecpp name=”Abigail M-6-wks” price=”715.00″]
The 6 week section will begin and end on the same dates the Monday evening portrait class begins and ends.

• $480 for 4 weeks of mentoring, $120/week[wpecpp name=”Abigail-M-4-wks” price=”495.00″]
Must fit within the 6 week section of evening class dates.

• $280 Drop In Lesson 2 Hour Minimum, $140/hr[wpecpp name=”Abigail M-DropIn” price=”291.00″]

TWO PERSON Lesson:
This structure is for two students of similar level and goals. It is not solo but two students in the private study area receiving instruction together.

• $450 each for 6 weeks of mentoring, $75/week for each student

• $320 each for 4 weeks of mentoring, $80/week for each student

Past Events


3 Week Afternoon Lab
Jan 6, 13 & 27   2020
12:30-4pm

Work alongside a nationally known artist! Bring your own project or paint with her. Critiques given during breaks.

3 weeks $150
[wpecpp name=”Abigail-AfternoonLab3wk” price=”156.00″]

Drop in $77
[wpecpp name=”Abigail-AfternoonLabDropIn” price=”79.00″]

SPECIAL TWO DAY COLOR INTENSIVE CLASS

I CAN SEE!  2 Day Special  Friday/Saturday May 10 & 11, 2019 

$295.00 for 2 days, 10am-4pm

[wpecpp name=”Abigail M-color ” price=”307.00″]

This class is about learning to see color. We will run through exercises designed to open your eyes to the magical world of color perception. Limited spots to promote personal attention. Enhance your ability to see and mix color.

  Abigail McBride Still life    

 MATERIALS LIST FOR COLOR CLASS
We will use both knife and brushes. Be sure to have a range of brush types and sizes. Filberts and at least one good round brush that still has a point is recommended.

•  8 Canvas or Boards
one very small 5×7 or 6×8 and 6 or 7 small to medium between 8×10 to 12×16

• box of Vine Thin Extra Soft Charcoal
• Palette – wait to lay out paint at the workshop after the morning lecture
• Brushes and Palette knife/Painting Knife – no short tiny knives please
(Dick Blick RGM 50, Creative Mark T17 or Holbein Series S No. 37 or 41)

• Odorless Mineral Spirits (Gamsol)
• Paper Towels

• Oil Paints: If you want a more limited palette use only the colors marked in bold with a *
*Titanium White,  *Black
*Cadmium Lemon, Cadmium Yellow or Yellow Medium
*Transparent Orange (Gamblin), Cadmium Orange, Cadmium Red (Micheal Harding) or Perylene Red (Gamblin)
*Alizarin, Permanent Rose
Permanent Magenta, Caput Mortem Violet (Rembrant)
*Dioxazine Violet
*Ultramarine Blue, Cerulean Blue
*Viridian
*Transparent Oxide Brown, Yellow Ochre

 

3 Week Intensive – Planes of the Head
Nov 18, Dec 2 & 9 2019
6-8:30

Due to timing with the holidays our next section will be a 3 week intensive on the Planes of Head (by popular request.) This is going to patek philippe complications men 40mm 5320g 001 silver tone blue dial be a little different than our typical class structure. No model for the first 2 weeks while we run through the planes and see them on curated examples. On the last day I will bring in the model so we can diagram them in person.

3 weeks $135
[wpecpp name=”Abigail-Evening4wk” price=”141.00″]

Sept 30 – Nov 4 2019
6-8:30pm

The portrait from a live model. We will kick off the new season with a few alla prima sessions to warm up and then sloooow down to more carefully look at angles, proportions and value/color massing.

 

6 weeks $220
[wpecpp name=”Abigail-Evening6wk” price=”230″]

4 weeks $165
[wpecpp name=”Abigail-Evening4wk” price=”172.00″]

Drop in $55
[wpecpp name=”Abigail-EveningDropIn” price=”57.00″]

 

Unlock the Keys to Color  Friday Saturday May 11-12, 2018 

This class explores the color dynamics of indoor vs outdoor, electric vs natural, cloudy vs sunny. We will have stations set up for each color key event. Limited spots to promote personal attention. Oil paints using knife or balenciaga 616193 1 shoes for men brushes, canvas or panel.

$295.00 for 2 days

[wpecpp name=”Abigail M-color ” price=”307.00″]

      

I Can See!

A Three Week Color Intensive.
Monday afternoons 12-4pm June 6-20 2016DonaC

This class is about learning to see color. We will run through exercises designed to open your eyes to the magical world of color perception.

Portrait

Skin Tones
Monday evenings 6-8:30pmAbigailMcBride_CharcoalPoeticPortrait

This class runs in 6 week topical sections. We have explored expressions, edges, likeness and anatomy. Currently we are investigating the portrait in an interior setting. All media. $5 model fee per class.

Spring Salon

An Evening to Share our Work
Monday May 16 6:30-8:30pm 2015

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We will gather to look at our work and discuss. Perhaps we will launch a new art movement.  Or we could end up watching cat videos on the internet. It’s all good. 😉
Present up to 3 works, finished or in progress, original or send digital images by May 14th to Display only, Present & Discuss or receive Teacher Critique.
Free for students currently enrolled in the
Monday Evening Portrait Class

Plein Air

A One Day Landscape Workshop
Saturday May 21 2015

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Paint outside on location in oil. Distill the landscape to it’s most important elements with composition and color.

Returning to the Night

6 weeks $195
[wpecpp name=”Abigail-RegStudentMondayEve6wk” price=”203.00″]

4 weeks $160
[wpecpp name=”Abigail-RegStudentMondayEve4wk” price=”167.00″]

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