Here are Greg's upcoming workshops and classes. All events are for adults unless otherwise noted. Contact the library or venue to register and confirm workshop.

LCC stands for the Local Cultural Council of the town the library or COA is in. Those projects are supported in part from a grant from that particular town's Cultural Council, a local agency which is supported by the Massachusetts Cultural Council, a state agency.

From Water Lilies to Starry Night: Secrets of Impressionism
and Post-Impressionism Workshop (Saturday, June 12th)
In this fun and exciting pastel painting workshop, sheer beginners to advanced students go deeply into revolutionary techniques that gave Monet, Renoir, Vincent Van Gogh, and Degas such mind-blowing impact. All participants experiment with pastel handling techniques as Maichack demos edges, scumbling, blending, slurring, and layering. All will take home their own pastel painting, and leave with a command of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist methods, knowing where specific techniques are used and why. You will learn how to produce Monet’s unique brush strokes in pastel and how to achieve optical shimmer. Explore advantages of Serat’s scientific pointillism, and have fun with Degas’s use of line and layering. Maichack will bring many of his own original pastel paintings in which these various effects are clearly at work. He will also offer for free hundreds of professional grade pastels, pastel pencils, and assorted Canson pastel paper for participants to use.

To register for this workshop, call the GCC Dept. of Community Education at (413) 775-1803 M-F between the hours of 11:00 am and 5:00 pm or email GCC at shopcreditfree@gcc.mass.edu. To register online, click here

Note: Projects designated LCC are supported in part from a grant from the particular town's Cultural Council, a local agency which is supported by the Massachusetts Cultural Council, a state agency.