Career
Her series Paint Along with Nancy comprised 52 half-hour programmes made by HTV West from 1974 to 1978, and transmitted on Independent Television network in the United Kingdom. Nancy also made a follow up series in the United States of America for Public Broadcasting Service for a 26 half hour programmes, which ran on Public Broadcasting Service affiliates into the mid-1980s. She began to "commute" between Rome and Bristol, where she made Paint Along With Nancy.
Nancy Kominsky"s instruction was accompanied by an amusing, unscripted running commentary.
To demystify painting with oils and the mixing of colours, she used her own kitchen-sink method: "Foreign the background, mix a teaspoonful of orange, half a teaspoon of vermilion and a quarter of purple … ". Demonstrating as she went, she would slash on the colour with a palette knife, and would always finish with a picture that her viewers could copy.
The series extended over four years and was shown extensively abroad. Her oil painting lessons were followed with enthusiasm by housewives, shift workers, and also schoolchildren, many of whom would race home after school to switch on the television set to watch her demonstrate her unusual system of painting.
Paintings by Nancy Kominsky (oil on canvas--various sizes 1974-1986).
