Instructor: Mark Adams
Monday - Friday
August 25 - 29
9am - 12pm
5 sessions

20,000 years on Truro’s Pamet River. From glacial hollow to Native refuge to colonial harbor to summer colony. Cultural landscape, estuary, restored salt marsh, from the First People to the Life Savers to Henry David Thoreau to modern beachcombers. 

Each day we will use a different method to capture the landscape on location near the Pamet River to draw and write from observation, prompted by Cape Cod’s literary history, geology/ecology and the angle of summer light. Drawing techniques are chosen for simplicity and portability, no previous experience is necessary - experienced artists and beginners can each find an approach to inspire each other. Pencil, pen and ink, charcoal and watercolor, the timeless tools with methods such as blind contour, value and color studies, that tap your personal way of seeing.

Mark Adams worked as a cartographer/ geologist with the National Park Service for 3 decades and has been an exhibiting artist since 2000, using drawing, watercolor, printmaking, video and photography. He had a solo museum exhibition, Expedition, at the PAAM in 2017 and painted one of six mural panels commissioned by the Provincetown Public Art Foundation on Macmillan Wharf in 2024. He was named Artist of the Year by the Arts Foundation of Cape Cod in 2023 and has been Artist/Scientist in Residence at the Center for Coastal Studies since 2022.

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