Nan Rumpf Water Media Artist

In Person Workshops and Classes 2025 Nan Rumpf

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Enrich your repertoire of watercolor techniques (in person)

We will be spending a week exploring the following techniques:

prism and patterns, watercolor and ink, using granulation medium and acrylic ink to add texture to your watercolors, creating a decorative background with a spray bottle, and adding tissue paper texture. 

June 23, 24, 25,26, and 27 from 9:00 to 12:00

If interested contact

Castle Hill Art in Truro on the cape

508 349 7511.  info@castlehill.org

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Crinkled Paper Technique

June 8^th from 12:30 to 4:30

Crinkled Paper Technique for Watercolorists

  from 12:30 to 4:30

Instructor – Nan Rumpf

$5. Materials fee payable to instructor

Come and join us as we explore the use of watercolors on a special Asian paper.

 (This paper will be provided by the instructor). 

Nan will demonstrate the step for preparing of the paper and the best way to use you brushes to obtain the crinkled paper look. This technique produces random darker lines and flying light. This technique is excellent for painting rocks, trees, shrubs, flowers, landscapes, and other subjects which benefit from the special qualities provided by the crinkled paper. Bring your own watercolors and brushes, a mist bottle, and an old towel.

If you have any questions about the materials contact Nan Rumpf at 

NanRumpf@gmail.com

Contact New Art if interested

61 Washington Park in Newton

617-964-3432

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Granulation Technique with watercolors and acrylic ink

 Saturday, Oct. 4 from 12:30 to 4:30

 Watercolors are a great art medium, but they lack texture. In this workshop we will combine watercolor, acrylic ink and granulation medium to create landscapes with great visual texture.

Please brins the following materials to class

• You usual watercolor painting supplies (paints, paper, backboard, brushes, paper towels, rinse water containers, pencil and eraser, artist tape, and sketch paper for testing colors

• Winsor and Newton granulation medium

• Daler Rowney acrylic inks (one bottle of Sepia and one bottle of Process Cyan)

Mosesian Center for the Arts (617-923-0100)

321 Arsenal Street in Watertown MA

Contact the Mosesian if interested

Contact Nan Rumpf if you have questions

nanrumpf@gmail.com    781-237-6318

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Spraying a Patterned Watercolor Background

A single session four-hour workshop 

Sat. November 15.    12:30 to 4:30

Join us as we experiment with an easy method for creating a beautiful, patterned background for your watercolor subjects.  Let your creative juices flow. 

materials

 You will need to bring your own watercolor supplies

( paper , backboard, brushes, paints  - Tube watercolor paints works best for this project- 

palette or white plate for mixing colors, paper towels)

wax paper

 scissors

blue painters tape (original)

 one or two Holbein watercolor spray bottles (2 oz size)

a variety of your own reference photos

a black magic marker

Needham High School

If interested contact NCE: Adult Programs

Needham High School

609 Webster St. in Needham MA

Needham Community Education

Telephone: 781-455-0400 x5

Website: http://www.needham.k12.ma.us/community_ed/nce_adult

The online registration link is nce.reg.eleyo.com.

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Beacon Hill Artwalk

June 1 from noon to 6:00

Location Advent School parking lot

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 Zoom Fall Classes 2025/ Nan Rumpf (online)

Chinese Brush Painting on various papers (Zoom class)

Wednesday afternoons from 12:00 to 2:30

October 15, 22, 29

November 5, 12, 19

We will work on a variety of Asian papers which will be mailed to you before classes start. You will also need some basic supplies. This info will be emailed to you when you sign up. We will be painting the following subjects:

White Cherry Blossoms on Ocher Mulberry paper

Sweet Flag and Cherries on Mulberry paper

Morning Glories on Double Shuen

Angel Fish on Cicada Wing paper

Slipper Violet on Dragon Cloud paper

Golden Pheasant on Jen Ho paper

$250. for six classes (This price includes your special paper packet and the mailing fee.)

Contact Nan Rumpf if interested.  -  nanrumpf@gmail.com

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Intermediate Watercolor on Zoom (Online)

I will be offering this Zoom class from 10:00 to 12:00 on Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday mornings. It will be the same lesson per week on each of these days so pick the morning which works best for you. If you have a schedule conflict, you can pick up a missed class on a different morning that week.

 We will be studying the following: 

Using black line with watercolor, adding small figures, using collage to inspire a watercolor, using granulation for visual texture, experimenting with different values., creative interpretation of your photo references, working wet into wet, and combining gesso and watercolor.

Monday morning dates:

  October 13, 20, 27

November 3, 10, 17 (No class Thanksgiving week)

December 1. 8

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Tuesday morning dates:

  October 14, 21, 28

November 4, 11, 18 (No class Thanksgiving week)

December 2. 9

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Thursday morning dates:

  October 16, 23, 30

November 6, 13, 20 (No class Thanksgiving week)

December 4, 11

$250. for eight classes. 

Contact Nan Rumpf if interested.         nanrumpf@gmail.com

Nan Rumpf

Water Media Artist

     Nan Rumpf grew up in a small Iowa town on the banks of the Mississippi River, where she spent much of her childhood exploring the outdoors on her bicycle and daydreaming under a lilac bush. She graduated from the University of Iowa with a B.A. She currently lives in Wellesley Massachusetts. She has worked as a professional puppeteer, designing and constructing her own puppets and masks. She organized dramatic arts workshops in public schools and libraries for twenty years. Nan acted as art instructor, artistic director, narrator, sound effects expert and musician while children use their puppet and mask creations to dramatize a folk tale.

      She wrote and illustrated the book Puppets and Masks: Stagecraft and Storytelling published by Davis Publications, 1996.

         She has studied watercolor painting with Susan Swinand, Jane Goldman, Paul George, Charles Reid, Miles Batt, and Cheng Khee Chee.

         Her paintings have been exhibited at The DeCordova Museum School Gallery, The Danforth Museum, The Art Complex Museum in Duxbury, The Attleboro Arts Museum, The Wellesley Free Library (First Place Award), The Center For The Arts in Natick, Art on the Common in Needham (First Place Award), The Clinton Art show (Best In Show), Post Road Art (First Place Award in the Abstract Show), The Wellesley Community Center (Margaret Fitzwilliam Award for Excellence in Watercolor), The New England Watercolor Society Show in Cotuit (Woodruff Art Center Award) and her painting Soaring was awarded by George Nick in Concord Art’s Juried Members show.  

         She is a member of the Concord Art Association, the Wellesley Society of Artists, The Rhode Island Watercolor Society and is a signature member of the New England Watercolor Society. She was chosen as one of the two art judges for The Amazing Things Summer Juried Art Show in 2012.

         She has been a visiting artist instructing students at Framingham State University, The Bancroft School, and at Medfield High School. She has given artist talks and demos for many art groups in New England. She currently teaches art classes and workshops via Zoom and at several art organizations.