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Date: Fridays, March 14-28, 2025
Time: 9:00-11:00 AM Pacific Time, 12:00-2:00 PM Eastern Time/4:00-6:00 PM UK Time
Level: All
Medium: Oil or acrylic
Often the landscapes we like are simply a design of light and form and shadow on the land with just a suggestion of reality. In short abbreviated, abstracted works.
In this 3-week course artist David Sharpe will take you through his process, from how to think abstractly to how to apply paint with unusual tools to achieve a look at the land that is uniquely yours. He’ll cover design, colour and paint application, one per week. He’ll look at the works of old and new masters of the genre and explain their appeal.
If you’ve always wanted to break out of your realistic style and push yourself into the limitless expression of the abstract, this is a workshop that is designed to get you started!
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$225.00
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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