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Mark Daniel Nelson – Assembling a Series: Unifying a Body of Work Using Procreate
Date Recorded: Friday, April 14, 2023
Join Mark Daniel Nelson for a fascinating look at how he recently used Procreate to help him produce a large series commission of paintings. Mark will share some of the ways that Procreate helped him create a unified body of work, from making the preliminary sketches, creating and playing with color schemes and composition, working with and combining reference images and speeding up the work time to meet deadlines.
Mark Daniel Nelson – Assembling a Series: Unifying a Body of Work Using Procreate
Join Mark Daniel Nelson for a fascinating look at how he recently used Procreate to help him produce a large series commission of paintings. Mark will share some of the ways that Procreate helped him create a unified body of work, from making the preliminary sketches, creating and playing with color schemes and composition, working with and combining reference images and speeding up the work time to meet deadlines.
Mark Daniel Nelson approaches both painting and teaching in much the same way: He strives to simplify and organize information until it reaches its most potent, elemental form. A student of both representational and non-objective painting, Nelson regularly fuses seemingly incongruous approaches to create new and unexpected results. “I strive for two things,” the artist states in his characteristically blunt manner, “impact and beauty. Eliminate the unnecessary parts and you’re left with much more powerful, beautiful modes of expression.” Mark Daniel Nelson is represented by Maxwell Alexander Gallery in Culver City, California, Gallery 1261 in Denver, CO and Jack Meier Gallery in Houston, TX. He has taught extensively in Art History, Human Anatomy, Drawing and Painting across the US. markdanielnelson.com
7 Responses
It may be over 2 years since you taught this class, but it came at the perfect time for me to put it into practice? Thank you
Tanya! Oh my gosh!!! I’m seeing you here! I’ll send an email if I can find your address. I hope you are doing well, in spite of the world. Oh and Mark–hey, thanks!!
Wow! What a wonderful series of paintings! Thanks for sharing your basic process and advice on working with the client. He was rightly very pleased with the project!
7 Responses
It may be over 2 years since you taught this class, but it came at the perfect time for me to put it into practice? Thank you
Thanks so much Mark, this is so so good, and so generous of you to share your process in so much detail. Massively helpful.
Tanya! Oh my gosh!!! I’m seeing you here! I’ll send an email if I can find your address. I hope you are doing well, in spite of the world. Oh and Mark–hey, thanks!!
Great presentation! Thank you Mark and Martha.
Fascinating! Thank you Mark! Very informative and I learned a lot.
Wow! What a wonderful series of paintings! Thanks for sharing your basic process and advice on working with the client. He was rightly very pleased with the project!
Yes, Martha … “phenomenal”. Thanks so much, Mark.