Museum School of the Provincetown Art Association and Museum

Sumi ink differs from India ink in the way it bleeds a range of grays when applied to a wet surface or loaded on a wet brush. This quality reflects the Asian approach to landscape painting which stresses the essence of a landscape rather than its detail or verisimilitude.

We begin by talking about drawing landscape to capture the essence and feeling of what we are looking at as well as its look. We’ll then go out in the town and work on drawings to be used in the afternoon as the basis for our sumi paintings. We’ll finish up discussing our work.

Workshop Materials List

Myrna Harrison has shown extensively in group and solo exhibitions throughout the US and is represented in the collections of the Rose Museum, Brandeis University; PAAM, and the Cape Cod Museum of Art, as well as in private collections throughout the United States, Europe, and Asia. For the past 30 years she has lived in Arizona where she has been president of three community colleges. She is currently represented by Gold Nugget Art Gallery, Wickenburg, AZ; James Ratliff Gallery, Sedona, AZ; Beauregard Fine Art, Rumsfeld, NJ; and Acme Fine Art, Boston, MA. She studied with Morris Davidson, Jack Tworkov, Philip Guston, and at the Hans Hofmann School of Fine Art in NY and Provincetown. She has a solo exhibition at PAAM in 2012.

Join us for a gallery talk with artist Myrna Harrison and Curator Robert Henry on her solo exhibition on Tuesday, May 29, at 7 PM as part of the Fredi Schiff Levin Lecture Series.

Other Workshops by this Instructor:

Hans Hofmann: A Lecture with Myrna Harrison
July 10, 6:30-8pm

Line Drawing in Charcoal with Myrna Harrison
July 23, 10-1pm