Five-Day Landscape Painting: CASSOA Workshop with Leo Mancini-Hresko

RAA&M Members: $800 | Non-Members: $850

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Join Italy-trained, Boston-based landscape painter Leo Mancini-Hresko for a five-day landscape painting intensive hosted by the Rockport Art Association & Museum. Rockport is hallowed ground for American Impressionism and remains a place of enduring artistic legacy.

Each day we will work together on site, with daily demonstrations and substantial time for individual work at the easel. Demonstrations will focus on the clear stages of Leo’s approach to painting: first, establishing a strong linear design; then organizing a coherent value structure or tonal pattern; and finally, layering expressive Impressionist color into the tonal plan to capture the fleeting effects of light and atmosphere. This method offers a flexible framework rooted not only in Impressionism, but also in older traditions of picture construction reaching back to the Baroque.

While Leo’s primary focus is oil painting—and he is especially drawn to the opalescent, jewel-like qualities achieved through careful layering, vibrating color, and rich surface texture—students who wish to draw or work in water-based media such as gouache are very welcome. Primarily, this class will be focused on arranging shapes and using design and perspective (both linear and atmospheric) as a means to create images of spatial structure and distance.

In the event of inclement weather, sessions will move indoors to the Rockport Art Association & Museum, where students will paint interiors and further discussions of linear and atmospheric perspective will take place. Though not a Rockport artist, Leo is deeply inspired by the town’s historic painters and its ongoing, living artistic tradition.

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Exclusive Lecture: Leo Mancini-Hresko
Thursday, September 3, 2026, 5:00–6:00 PM

Join us for an adapted version of Leo’s 2024 talk on Impressionism, originally presented at the Florence Griswold Museum in Old Lyme, Connecticut, in conjunction with their Impressionism 150 exhibition. We will also look closely at works from RAA&M’s collection as examples of strong picture-making.