Bryan Memorial Art Gallery — Attraction in Cambridge

I have been an amateur oil painter at a retirement community for fourteen years but never had the motivation or supplies to seriously try acrylic painting. Robert Brunelle’s two-day course provided just such an opportunity. Unlike many art teachers who don’t really offer a planned course of instruction, Mr. Brunelle offers a carefully designed approach to the challenges inherent in the handling of acrylics. He illustrated techniques for addressing different subjects by actually painting examples as we watched. Here, surely, a picture was worth a thousand words. And he is also very...

The Gallery offered a Sound Bath at the Bryan session on Saturday, May 4th, and what an experience it was. In addition to the beautiful vibrational sounds of drums, chimes, gong, and more of Tammy Jordon, we were guided through a gentle, relaxing meditation by Pippa Dorfman. The vibrational experience is one I've not experienced before. The space at The Bryan Memorial Gallery was perfect for this event in which we were surrounded by such beauty. ...

I learned valuable painting principles from George in the two days. He is a wonderful oil and watercolor painter— and has original masterful techniques to help us have fun painting and to achieve results plein air without much touch up in the studio. George did oil and watercolor demos each day and honest and helpful critiques of my attempts. It was exhausting but well worth my...