Recorded Versions of LIVE ONLINE STUDIO WORKSHOPS with DAVID DUNLOP

RECORDED VERSIONS of LIVE ONLINE STUDIO WORKSHOPS with DAVID DUNLOP are Now Available

Join artist, teacher and Emmy award winning David Dunlop for new adventures in landscape painting. In David’s inimitable, inspiring and entertaining style, he blends art history, painting technique, philosophy and science in all of his many programs. Learn new methods and insights to dramatically improve your paintings in his new live online painting workshops series with personal painting critique. All Workshops are recorded for your later review.

ABSTRACTING NATURE’S LANDSCAPES WORKSHOP

Live Online Workshop on SATURDAY, October 15, 2022 ($50)

2-Hour Live Online Landscape Painting Workshop with NO individual painting critiques.

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Exciting New Demonstration and Workshop. In this 2-hour online landscape painting workshop, David will explore and examine historic Celtic, Islamic, Greco-Roman and Egyptian designs. We take off from models of modern abstract landscapes to create new landscape abstractions, trying techniques of modern abstract painters. David will then apply these different concepts and ideas to paint a contemporary landscape painting demonstration. He will paint in oil and may incorporate mixed media, using contemporary techniques and materials. You are invited to paint along with David or just relax with a sandwich.

VAST AND INFINITE LANDSCAPES
Live Online Workshop on Saturday, September 24, 2022 ($50.00)
2-Hour Live Online Landscape Painting Workshop with NO individual painting critiques.In this 2-hour online landscape painting workshop, David will explore and demonstrate how to create a landscape painting that can transport you from a close-up view of nature to infinity. David examines and explores how artists from Rembrandt to Turner created landscapes that carry you from an intimate foreground into immense distance. You will learn how to use principles of disappearance, including linear and atmospheric perspective, optical shifts, color recession and more. David will demonstrate contemporary techniques and materials and will paint in oil and may incorporate mixed media.

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GARDEN MYSTERIES WORKSHOP – APRIL 28, 2021 (2-2.5 hrs.) – $50.00 – Recorded Version
Join artist and award-winning David Dunlop for another fascinating new 2.5-hour landscape painting workshop – Garden Mysteries. Atmosphere, enigmatic compositions, unique and tilted perspectives, filtered sunlight, obscuring elements, quixotic motion, surprising palette choices – these are all elements that help develop qualities of mystery within a garden. David’s painting demonstrations will illustrate all of these qualities in this workshop while exploring realism and abstraction. In David’s inimitable, inspiring and entertaining style, he begins the workshop with a survey of garden mysteries as far back as ancient Rome through contemporary techniques to evoke mystery in the garden, and will discuss different compositional considerations.

Oil and Mixed Media Painting Demonstrations. David will demonstrate and experiment with mixed media and oils on a variety of surfaces and will utilize a variety of tools to create different effects. There are no individual critiques in this Workshop but David will be happy to answer your questions. He will offer an exciting guide to finding, designing and painting beautiful, luminous landscapes using old master techniques in a contemporary manner.

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SIGNS OF SPRING WORKSHOP – MARCH 31, 2021 (2-2.5 hrs.) – $50.00 – Recorded Version

Join artist and award-winning David Dunlop for another entertaining and inspiring new 2.5-hour landscape painting workshop – Signs of Spring. The end of winter arrives in the flowering orchard and forest. Blossoming Spring inspires artists, poets and creatives across the globe. Join David as he celebrates the wild and domestic blossoming of Spring in painting demonstrations in oil and mixed media. We will explore the history and techniques for painting spring across time and cultures. In David’s inimitable, inspiring and entertaining style, he will explore historic paintings of different aspects of springtime paintings and discuss different compositional considerations.

Oil and Mixed Media Painting Demonstrations. David will demonstrate and experiment with mixed media and oils on a variety of surfaces. There are no individual critiques in this Workshop but David will be happy to answer your questions. He will offer an exciting guide to finding, designing and painting beautiful, luminous landscapes using old master techniques in a contemporary manner.

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WILDFLOWERS IN ATMOSPHERE – FEBRUARY 24, 2021(2-2.5 hrs.) – $50.00 – Recorded Version

Join artist and award-winning David Dunlop for another fascinating new 2.5-hour landscape painting workshop – Wildflowers In Atmosphere. In this Workshop David will examine how to create the effects of wildflowers cloaked in mystery when immersed in atmospheric effects – in seaborne fog, a river’s rising mists, or soaked in the humidity of a summer morning. In David’s inimitable, inspiring and entertaining style, he will explore historic paintings of different aspects of flower paintings and discuss different compositional considerations. The painting demonstrations will show you how to create atmospheric effects while creating persuasive wildflowers.

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GHOSTS IN THE ARCHITECTURE – JANUARY 27, 2021 (2-2.5 hrs.) – $50.00 – Recored Version

oin artist and award-winning David Dunlop for an exciting new 2.5-hour landscape painting workshop – Ghosts in the Architecture. Fleeting figures pass us in streets, stations, and bridges. We catch them from the corner of our eyes as we move through city spaces, through congested avenues, across soaring bridges, and under giant digital promotions adorning glass towers. To compose and evoke the motion, energy, radiance, rhythms, and visual reverberations that animate a city from its people to its traffic to its architecture is the goal of this class.

In this Workshop David will experiment with exaggerations of perspective, color, shapes and reflected light to convey the experience of life in a city’s architecture. We will catch the phantoms with their quick shadows as they pass in the fast, blurring electric atmosphere of the city. There are no individual critiques in this workshop but David will be happy to answer your questions.

Oil and Mixed Media Painting Demonstrations. In this Workshop David will demonstrate and experiment with mixed media and oils on a variety of surfaces. He will offer an exciting guide to finding, designing and painting beautiful, luminous landscapes using old master techniques in a contemporary manner.

$50.00Add to cart

FROM REALISM TO ABSTRACTION – DECEMBER 22, 2020 at 1:00pm EST (2-2.5 hrs.) – $50.00 – Recorded Version

Join artist and award-winning David Dunlop for an exciting new 2.5-hour landscape painting workshop – From Realism to Abstraction. This workshop takes you on an improvisational journey from painting what is recognizable to creating mysteries of uncertainty, ambiguity and abstraction. David examines our fascination with looking into nature’s chaos and discovering abstract patterns in nature and in cities. These elements invite our attention to their broken rhythms, their complex textures, their color and tonal variations, and their invitation to explore mysterious appearances.

David explores artistic sources of inspiration from the past as well as contemporary artists to analyze compositions and to create a framework for painting several demonstrations in oil and mixed media. In this workshop we will follow a path out of the familiar visual world and into visual mystery through painting, learning new techniques and exploring new possibilities to incorporate into your paintings. There are no individual critiques in this workshop but David will be happy to answer your questions.

Oil and Mixed Media Painting Demonstrations. These demonstrations will involve layering mixed media and will offer an exciting guide to finding, designing and painting beautiful, luminous landscapes using old master techniques in a contemporary manner.

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PAINTING SKIES – NOVEMBER 24, 2020 at 1:00pm EST (2-2.5 hrs.) – $50.00 – Recorded Version

Skies are endlessly fascinating and painting skies has been a great joy and challenge for landscape painters throughout history. David will explore many aspects of designing and painting skies with particular attention to capturing the effects of wind, motion, light, luminosity and layering in relation to the landscape. In David’s inimitable and inspiring style, he will examine how some of the greatest landscape painters have approached this topic, examining their compositions, palettes and techniques in this recorded version of his live Zoom Workshop.
Oil and Mixed Media Painting Demonstrations. These demonstrations will involve layering mixed media. David will paint a watercolor sketch and 2 primarily oil sketches while examining:
– the design and composition of higher and lower perspectives and horizons for landscape paintings;
– the importance of linear and atmospheric perspective in achieving desired effects;
– multiple painting techniques for shaping, toning and creating texture in a sky;
– how to use open and closed edges in clouds and skies; and
– creating myriad and dramatic sky effects by using different color palettes.
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DISTANT LANDSCAPES – Wednesday, August 5, 2020 – Recorded Version of David’s Online Landscape Painting Workshop (2-2.5 hr.) -$35.00

We will Zoom to Tuscany’s rolling, poppy cluttered, olive groves. The painting demonstration will stretch our vision across a vast panorama of Blue Mountains freckled with farms and cypress groves as we paint deep perspectives. Roads ascend in winding ribbons; fields dip gracefully into valleys. David will demonstrate different techniques to create vivid textures and colors that recede into blended atmosphere.

You will receive the link to the webpage and the password to access the workshop in your purchase confirmation email.

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NATURAL PATTERNS, RHYTHMS AND ELEMENTS IN LANDSCAPE – Thursday, September 17, 2020 – Recorded Version of David’s Online Landscape Painting Workshop (2-2.5 hr.) -$35.00

David will explore interweaving patterns of contrasting colors, textures, and forms as found in natural settings. He will emphasize rendering patterns of water in motion and reflection as found in rivers and marshlands. He will demonstrate how to create sparkle effects, luminosity, the sensation of wind and varieties of natural textures as we experience them. Learn how nature’s organic rhythmic sequences can be arranged into unified compositions. This demonstration will involve layering mixed media. This 2-2.5 hr. program will offer an exciting guide to finding, designing and painting beautiful, luminous landscapes using old master techniques in a contemporary manner.

You will receive the link to the webpage and the password to access the workshop in your purchase confirmation email.

$35.00Add to cart

EXPERIMENTS IN LANDSCAPE PAINTING – OCTOBER 28, 2020 – Recorded Version of David’s Online Landscape Painting Workshop (2-2.5 hr.) – $35.00

In this new monthly two-hour live online workshop from David’s studio, David will explore interweaving patterns of contrasting colors, textures, and forms as found in natural settings. He will demonstrate how to create sparkle effects, luminosity, the sensation of wind and varieties of natural textures as we experience them. Learn how nature’s organic rhythmic sequences can be arranged into unified compositions. This demonstration will involve layering mixed media.Since we are not physically travelling at this moment in time, David will use photographs as his source material. He will examine and discuss historic precedents for different ideas and then sketch several compositions to explore different possibilities.

You will receive the link to the webpage and the password to access the workshop in your purchase confirmation email.