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| Just saw your PBS show and am looking forward to watching all your shows. Your information-filled instruction makes the shows informative and very interesting. Thanks for the show, it makes me happy that I support PBS. |
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Harriet W. from Ormond Beach, February 12, 2009
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| Hi, I love your landscapes through time series. I became a member of my local PBS and look forward to meeting you April 18 in St. Louis. |
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Kurt S. from St. Louis, February 11, 2009
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I had never heard of George Inness before I saw your beautiful program on Channel 21! David is so entertaining and informative. Thank you for giving me a new interest.
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Dawn B. from NY, NY on February 9,2009
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Your series is the most informative I have seen.And I hope to see more. |
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Mark H. from Midwest City, Okla February 2, 2009
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Thank you for showing this program Landscapes Through time with David Dunlop. David Dunlop is so interesting and entertaining anyone who watches this show can't help but enjoy it. Mr. Dunlop brings to life not only the artist but the work of the artist. Even viewers who know very little about the history of landscape painters will be impressed by Mr. Dunlop's enthusiasm, knowledge and charm. I can't wait to see each week's new segment. Channel 9 has certainly continued its tradition of quality programming with this series. |
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W. Dudley from St. Louis January, 2009
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Landscapes through time - excellent show. Best all round art show I have seen on television. |
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Bruce W. from Darien, CT January 25, 2009
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Utterly incredible series! I drag everyone in to watch. Love this, David. Keep it going. |
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Bart C. from Foster City, CA January 11, 2009
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Landscapes throughTime by David Dunlop-- how can i buy all 13 of the series. What a great idea to record Dunlop! |
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Jeanann for Salem, OR January 10, 2009
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Love the show Landscape through time, I paint landscapes also, but my big question is, (what brushes do you use?) Looks so fluid Watercolor? not oil brushes? Love it so much. Great painter. |
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Joyce K. from Canton, OH January 3, 2009
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Great program, concept and wonderful hosting! |
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Regards, Brent from NYC December 28, 2008
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I seldom watch PBS. I caught two episodes- one with the lilly pads a few weeks ago and now today at the landscape scenes. You are so good at that stuff. I studied some of Picasso's works and Rembrandt and Van Gogh at the Metropolitan Museum of Art now some 10 years ago. They are magnificient. Your paintings are too. |
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Daniel P. from Coatesville, PA December 27, 2008
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David, I greatly enjoyed your series which was aided on PBS here in Portland (OPB). I found a copy of your watercolor DVD at the library and you unlocked a mystery for me! I saw a wonderful watercolor show 2 years ago in Belfast of local landscape painters (watercolor) and I could not understand how they were able to attain such a rich and detailed work. You make understanding art, theory, history and practice greatly enjoyable. I look forward to your next series. |
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Regards, Dave H. from Portland, OR 2008
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Thank you Mr. Dunlop, you presented the best art series I have seen on television so far, I am sad not to be able to continue seeing you teaching how to paint. Hopefully you will be back very soon on TV teaching us again your techniques and art. Mr. Dunlop you are an accomplished artist and wonderful teacher. Congratulations Mr. Dunlop. We in my family enjoyed your series and looked with great expectation to watch your programs on PBS but you are not here anymore!, are you coming back teaching some new series? Miss your teachingsand interesting talks about old and great painters. Thanks to you and PBS. |
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Josephine C. from NY on November 30, 2008
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I saw your series on PBS and enjoyed them so much, hopefully you will be back on TV teaching how to paint. Congratulations on your series, they were simply fantastic and you are a superb artist, wish I could join your workshops, maybe God willing someday in the future. . |
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Milagros S. from Clinton, CT on November 30, 2008
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I watched and watched your recent series which brought you to France and back to NY and Conn. I even tried to paint along. I used acrylics rather than oils. I discovered your show on " Channel 21-Create" . I just noticed that the series was just taken off the air. WHEN will you be bringing us another series to enjoy and learn. You are a wonderful teacher. God bless you and your wonderful talent. |
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Bruce F. from Brooklyn, NY November 29, 2008
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Watching only two episodes I am amazed at the quality of your programs. Great work! Most information into art is much less informative. Having watched only 20 minutes of Monet's series I have 10 pages of notes- even after having graduated from U of H Art School and post MFA education. There is so much information packed into 30 minutes-thank you, David! Keep up the good quality work! |
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Jonathan from Handen, CT October 27, 2008
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I just saw one show and I loved it. Never had impressionism fully explained before. More on watercolor please. Will it ever be on regular pbs? |
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Barbara from Bellevue, WA October 29, 2008
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I love the show because it includes history and techniques of the masters and color theory. Thank You, for such a informative and smart series. I would love David Dunlop to put out a book. |
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Patssi from Los Angeles, CA November 2, 2008
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It seems as though I am seeing through new eyes as I watch your painting and instructions on public television. Thank you. |
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Antionette, November 3, 2008
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I am stunned with David's approach. The first show I saw kept my mind whirling for days and I was eager to see another and another. His enthusiasm and technique is liberating. I appreciate what he does with a student's work. Seeing him correct the same kinds of mistakes I usually make has taught me a great deal. I hope Create runs the series again and I look forward to a second series. |
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Mallory Y. in Hampton Falls, N.H. November 16, 2008
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When I first saw David do a painting I was so amazed at what he pulled out of what looked like a 'mess' at first. I really loved the acrylic one he did. Also, how he helps his students 'fix' their paintings. That's great. The show itself is great too just for the locations. So thanks again and bye for now.
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Randall in Washington October 14, 2008
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We love the show!! My whole art class is talking about it. Keep up the great work and shows, we want more and more. |
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Thank You for your show! It is the best art class and instruction I have seen. I hope some day to have the opportunity to paint with you. Once Again, Thank You!
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Paul G. from Chapel Hill, NC
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I have been watching the Landscapes Through Time series and am enthralled. This series is so beautifully orchestrated and yet is not alienating. I am not a novice to art, but I am slowly adapting to the word 'artist' and my name being used in the same sentence. Anyway, I hope David receives this message because I so want him to know how much I am enjoying this series, how much I am enjoying his style of teaching and how much I appreciate his knowledge and talent. Thank you. Best, Cheryl
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Cheryl M. from Chicago, Illinois
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Landscapes through time, very informative,brilliant!
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Henry from Mass.
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My wife would VERY much like to contact David Dunlop for information on his classes - and to learn more about his life and work. We were AMAZED at his ability to present, in a straightforward, intelligent, and unpretentious fashion, the spirit of his subject -- and to watch him create at the same time. Incredible talent! Thank you! Sincerely, Mike
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Michael A. from Germantown, MD
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First I just caught your show on Landscapes in Time and love it -- the best I've ever seen on TV as it combines art history and technique in different genres. I do have a ques as I was looking at the gallery and would like to understand the reason of painting on aluminum and steel. Also is there a prime used on the metal?? Another question is what is used in the demonstrations on TV = it was mentiioned as being hand primed linen, but it doesn't look as though it is stretched but more like paper -- or is it just the perspective that makes it not look as though it is on stretchers. Thank you for your show and insight. Wish I could get to CN. (SEE DAVID'S ANSWER.)
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Claire L. from N.J.
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I recently discovered your PBS series and I look forward to each program. I want to learn more from you. I am so impressed with your teaching and knowledge. I have ordered all your DVD and feel confident that I will loosen up in my paintings. You make me want to learn and paint more. Thank you David. I also want to thank Connie for all her help and producing this wonderful series. |
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Wanda from Raleigh, NC
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I watched the episode that featured Vincent Van Gogh at St. Remy. I was bothered when David Dunlop painted on the student's painting. Art belongs to the artist and for someone else to paint on it takes it away from the artist. It would have been more appropriate for the teacher to instruct the student how to lighten the painting and then give her the chance to try it for herself. Thank you for listening to my opinion. Terri
Dear Terri -
Thank you so much for taking the time to send us a note about Landscapes Through Time with David Dunlop! I am David's producer, director and editor, so I appreciate your thoughts.
On a personal note, I am also a painter and I started this journey as a student of David's. I believed that David was such a talented teacher that we first produced a series of art instructional DVDs and then the PBS series.
When I started in David's class, I also was surprised by his hands-on method at first. However, I made greater progress in my painting after watching him approach and change something in my painting that I had been struggling with. Sometimes I liked it and sometimes I preferred to do something else. But I saw and learned different approaches and that was very important and served as a catalyst for experimenting with a new approach - for seeing my painting with different eyes. The very fact of watching how he painted and how he saw it - particularly when I had run out of ideas - was critical to my learning experience. It also made painting much more fun for me!
I also learned that even if I had liked something that David changed in my painting while he worked on it, I could do something similar or even different that I also liked, so it made me more experimental and fearless.
The method that David uses is also the method that has been used for centuries - in the Renaissance workshops, in the fields with the Impressionists. Painting had for centuries been a more collaborative process - both in ideas, in inspiration, and in process. Master painters did actually touch their paint brushes to other painters' paintings - their peers and their students. However, in these times many of us have developed a more individual, auteur approach and are not comfortable with someone else touching their painting. It is obviously a personal choice, and I of course respect your belief, but David's students look forward to learning by the process that David follows. Since his classes are always completely full with a huge waiting list, his method has proven to be very useful and inspiring to them!
However, one thing that I probably should have emphasized was that David ALWAYS asks his students first if ihe has their permission to make changes on their paintings. I included this exchange in a few of the programs, but it might have been better to have included it in all of them.
Thank you again for watching and for letting us know your thoughts.
Best, Connie Simmons
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