Date: Mondays, August 21, 28 & September 11, 2023
Time: 9:30 AM-12:00 PM Pacific Time, 12:30-3:00 PM Eastern Time, 5:30-8:00 PM London Time
Level: All
Medium: Oil or acrylic – Instructor will demo in oil
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The sky is a beautiful and emotional part of many of the landscape paintings we all love. For many painters it can be a challenge to capture, but it doesn’t have to be.
In this three-week workshop, artist David Sharpe will demonstrate some of the techniques he uses to add light and mood to his skies. He will paint a different sky each week, dealing with sunlight on clouds over meadows, moody mist and rain you find in the mountains.
David will assign homework and critique your work digitally using the Procreate app so you can visualise and better apply his comments.
Canadian artist David Sharpe describes his influences as the American, British and Russian Impressionist painters of the 20th Century, with a special affinity for the American Tonalists of the 20th Century. He moves fluidly between tonalism, his own brand of impressionism and expressive non-representational abstraction.
An Honors graduate in illustration from the Alberta College of Art and Design, Sharpe taught Drawing and Design at The Ontario College of Art and Design University (OCADU), Concordia University, and Capilano College in Vancouver. A skilled art instructor, he lectured extensively at Queens University, St Lawrence College and Humber College where he sat on the College’s Advisory Board.
David Sharpe’s work has won numerous awards at plein air events and exhibitions and is actively collected in Canada and the USA. He is a founding member of the Ontario Plein Air Society and is the only Canadian member of the prestigious and exclusive American Tonalist Society. He lives and works in Cochrane – a small ranching town in the foothills near Calgary Alberta, Canada.
He is represented by Mountain Galleries in Banff, Jasper and Whistler BC and Village Studios in Stratford, Ontario.
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