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David Sharpe – Painting the Tonalist Landscape (Online); Fridays, February 21 & 28, 2025

This class was held in the past and is no longer available for registration. Please view our Online Course Catalog for current class listings.

Date: Fridays, February 21 & 28, 2025
Time: 12:00-2:00 PM Pacific Time, 3:00-5:00 PM Eastern Time/8:00-10:00 PM UK Time
Level: All
Medium: Oil or acrylic

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The American Tonalist movement of the late 18th century still resonates today with the  quiet beauty of tonal colour and simple composition. In this 2-week course, David Sharpe, an exhibited member of The American Tonalist Society in NYC, will demonstrate how he approaches  painting in the Tonalist tradition. He’ll look at yesterday’s and today’s tonal masters and explain why their work works. He’ll show you how to compose for the quiet beauty and how to mix and apply the soft colours that the Tonalists used.

If you’d like to dial  down your style and dial up the emotion and beauty in your work, this is the perfect primer to get you going.

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