En Plein Air Adventure at CCMoA with Susan Overstreet

Friday, August 8, and Saturday, August 9, 2025, from 9:00 am – 11:30 am.

Materials: Student-supplied materials, see below

Enjoy the beautiful vegetation and sculptures on the campus of the Cape Cod Museum of Art as we paint light and color outdoors. Susan Overstreet will discuss the unique aspects of painting en plein air, including the various atmospheric conditions that affect light, color and perspective. Class will start with a brief demonstration at the beginning of each workshop day.

Students are welcome to paint with oil, watercolor, or acrylic. All levels from beginner to professional.

Materials: Student-supplied materials

A plein air easel or support for watercolor. Palette, palette knives, brushes of various sizes: flats, rounds, filberts and brights, canvases (at least two per day) 8x10 to 16x20. Colors: cadmium yellow medium, cadmium lemon or light, cadmium red light, permanent rose, magenta, manganese blue, ultramarine blue, titanium white. If you have colors you like, please bring them. You don’t need a medium, but if you have one you prefer, please bring it. Rags or paper towels, sunscreen, hat, and water.

We have scholarships!

The Cape Cod Museum of Art is committed to making Art accessible to everyone in the Cape Cod Community. The Museum School Scholarship Fund provides tuition assistance to qualified, year-round Cape Cod residents ages 6 and up. Click here to apply.

Susan Overstreet’s creative process of weaving vibrant colors with a technique of palette knife and brushwork captures a visual tapestry between abstract imagery and representation. Overstreet’s bold expressive style is driven by unique natural elements found on Cape Cod that offer an evolving kaleidoscope of color. She paints en plein air and in the studio, inspired by both landscape and the human figure. 

Susan completed studio work at George Washington University, and continued studying fine arts at the Corcoran School of Art and the Art League School of Alexandria. Her work was accepted in many juried competitions in Virginia and now on Cape Cod. Susan has taught at the Cape Cod Museum of Art, Milford Arts Council, the Cultural Center of Cape Cod (where she served as artist in residence and learning coordinator), the Creative Arts Center of Chatham, and the Provincetown Art Association and Museum. She has led sketching tours to Scotland and France. She is represented by Tracy Lindholm Nee, 780 Main Street in Dennis, MA.  SusanOverstreet.com

Cancellation policy: CCMoA must be notified 1 week prior for refund.