Pastel Painting
Lee McVey, Instructor
Cell: 505-417-3517
leemcvey1@msn.com
Website: LeeMcVey.Com

Wednesday evening 6:00 - 9:00, Mar 31 - May 5
Tuition: $135

Quotes from student evaluations:

"Lee treats everyone with openness and respect and is both honest and supportive in her approach to students." RW

"Lee's enthusiasm, artistic ability, and teaching methodology bring out the best in students. She is thoughtful, perceptive, quick to see developing painting problems, and knowledgeable about how to remedy them." RR

"Lee patiently inspires and encourages all her students to persevere and rise to higher levels of achievement." WF

About the instructor:

Using pastels, Lee McVey creates landscapes people feel they can walk right into.
Her love of nature began when she was a young girl while walking in the woods with her grandparents. Those experiences have inspired Lee to focus on studio and plein air landscape painting.

She is a signature member of Pastel Society of America, Plein Air Painters of New Mexico and Pastel Painter's Society of Cape Cod, and Sierra Pastel Society. Lee is also a member of American Academy of Women Artists, National Association of Women Artists and Pastel Society of New Mexico. Her pastels have been featured in full-length articles in the magazines American Artist and International Artist. Lee's work is featured in the books How Did You Paint That? 100 Ways to Paint the Landscape and The Jack Richeson Annual: The Plein Air New Mexico Year. In 2006 - 2008, Lee co-organized and co-curated the annual invitational landscape painting exhibit, Open Space: a View with Room, for Albuquerque's Open Space Visitor Center.

Lee retired from teaching elementary art in 2003 to devote more time to her art career. Along with school teaching and painting, she taught pastel classes at Kirkland Art Center in Clinton, NY and Cooperstown Art Association in Cooperstown, NY. Lee is now a resident of Albuquerque, NM, where she paints and teaches pastel landscape classes.