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Create Infinity with Zig Zag
29 May 2021

Create Infinity with Zig Zag

by David | posted in: Blog, Classes, Composition, Painting | 6

A zig zag, meander, or serpentine pattern offers much to the artist. It can help unite disparate areas of a painting. It can serve as a metaphorical shape packed with mythical meanings. And, through foreshortening it can provide a strong … Continued

#arthistory, #arthistory #paintingwater, #brooklynbridge, #composition, #fineartpainting, #linearperspective, #oilpainting
Safe Passage
27 Apr 2021

Safe Passage

by David | posted in: Blog, Classes, Painting | 4

Social upheaval and challenges find their way into art. Sometimes they appear heavy handed and unpersuasive as when countless artists tried to depict the horrific experience of 9/11 with ineffective visual pantomimes. An oblique and piercing way to transmute our … Continued

#arthistory, #humanisim, #socialcommentary
Choreographing the City with Abstract Energy
30 Mar 2021

Choreographing the City with Abstract Energy

by David | posted in: Blog, Classes, Painting, Uncategorized | 0

Da Vinci observed problems with linear perspective and hard outlines. We don’t see like that! He saw that natural perspective curves, perhaps as the result of our eye’s convex lens. He further observed that edges were not sharp and hard … Continued

#abstraction, #arthistory, #artinstruction, #cityscape, #linearperspective, #visualperception, NYCart
Building Mystery Through Glazes
19 Mar 2021

Building Mystery Through Glazes

by David | posted in: Blog, Classes, Painting | 15

You and I create the picture of our world more from within than from without, that is we are less reliant on our eyes or more precisely, the photons that touch our neural tissues than on our cortex. Our cortex … Continued

#arthistory, #artinstruction, #Atmosphere, #glazing, #visualmystery, #visualperception
Out of the Shadows
28 Feb 2021

Out of the Shadows

by David | posted in: Blog, Classes, Composition, Painting | 9

We credit Leonardo da Vinci with introducing the theories of chiaroscuro and S’fumato to painting.  To clarify how chiaroscuro (light against dark) works let’s look at a detail from the dark in da Vinci’s  “Virgin in the Rocks” (example 1). … Continued

#arthistory, #arthistory #artinstruction, #Atmosphere, #chiaroscuro, #landscapepainting, #Shadows
Whispering Columns of Light
1 Feb 2021

Whispering Columns of Light

by David | posted in: Blog, Classes, Painting | 6

The ancient Roman architect, Vitruvius explained there were four orders of architecture, four types of columns in his opus De Architectura. His ideas still circulate in architecture today. But, his notion of capitals on columns is a reductionist idea. If … Continued

#arthistory, #artinstruction, #colorcontrast, #fineartpainting, #Misty #LightingEffects, #oilonaluminum, #oilpainting

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David's Visions of Venice Live Online Workshop. We
David's Visions of Venice Live Online Workshop. We hope that we will see you this Saturday, March 18, 2023 at 1:00pm EDT for David's Visions of Venice Live Online Workshop. Please note that the Workshop will start at 1:00 pm EDT.
Join David in this 2-hour Visions of Venice Workshop to explore the joy and beauty of painting the atmosphere and play of light, water and reflections of Venice. David’s exciting new live online demonstration workshop on March 18 will explore different Visions of Venice, which has been a magnet of romance and mystery for artists throughout the centuries. He will briefly present iconic paintings of Venice by JMW Turner (1775-1851), Venetian view painters such as Antonio Canaletto (1697-1768) and Francesco Guardi (1712-1793), and later paintings by John Singer Sargent (1856-1925) and Claude Monet (1840-1926). David will then paint a demonstration painting in mixed media (oil and acrylic) and will experiment with how to create the textures, atmosphere and motion of Venice with different tools and palettes. We hope that you can join David and create your own view of Venice. 
There are no personal painting critiques in this Workshop, but David will be happy to answer any of your questions.
You will also receive access to an online recording for the Visions of Venice Workshop. If you cannot join us for the live Workshop, you can also register and watch the recorded version of the Workshop at your convenience. You are invited to paint along with David or just relax with a sandwich (or whatever). 
You will receive the Zoom Link to the Visions of Venice Workshop in your registration confirmation and also again on the day before and the morning of the Workshop, so you will always be able to reach us.
We hope to see you there! You can register at www.daviddunlop.com.



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