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Mark Daniel Nelson – Simplifying for Impact (Recording)

Date recorded: Friday, April 5, 2024

Level: All

Medium: All

Presentation Type: Demo

Mark Daniel Nelson will briefly demonstrate how to create clarity and impact in a painting by identifying and eliminating unnecessary information.

Register once for the Spring Fling 2024 Festival Pass to participate and receive Zoom and recording links for this event and all the Spring Fling Festival events.

Free!

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.

Spring Fling 2024 Festival – Free!

  • This Festival was held live in April, 2024
  • Festival recordings are now part of our Past Free Class Recordings Archive
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Spring Fling 24 Recordings

  • Art Chat with Erin Lee Gafill (Recording)

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  • Soo Hong – Understanding Black & White (Recording)

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  • Janet Pedersen – Painting a Contemporary Still-Life in Acrylics (Recording)

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  • Susan Greenstein – Working Quickly: Trusting Your Intuition (Recording)

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  • Molly Hashimoto – Paint a National Park Landscape (Recording)

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  • Mark Daniel Nelson – Simplifying for Impact (Recording)

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  • Paul Bailey – Building Abstraction (Recording)

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  • Scott Gellatly – Bringing Inventive Color to the Landscape (Recording)

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  • Anton Nowels – Using Photoshop as a Jumping Off Point (Recording)

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  • Tom Birmingham – Why Draw?: Observation as the Foundation of the Creative Process (Recording)

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  • Larry Calkins – Creating Vocabulary through Mark Making (Recorded)

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  • Annelise Firth – The Floral Still Life: Finding Your Way into the Subject (Recording)

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  • Michael Weller – Colour First (Recording)

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  • Susan Abbott – An Artist’s Pilgrimage on the Camino de Santiago (Recording)

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  • Tim Tozer – Exploring Place and Memory through Painting (Recording)

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  • Jean Mackay – Painting Bird Eggs in Watercolor (Recording)

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  • Al Gury – The Beauty of Limited Palettes (Recorded)

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  • Amy Dury- Using Found Imagery for Inspiration in Painting (Recording)

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  • Richard Suckling – Sparkling Seas and Dramatic Skies: Pastel Demo (Recording)

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  • Liz Prescott – Capturing Light in the Landscape (Recorded)

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  • Mary Pritchard – Grasses and Reflections in Pastels (Recording)

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  • Lynn Mehta – Painting Loose and Free Using the Palette Knife and Expressive Brushwork (Recording)

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  • Stacy Kamin – Capturing Everyday Objects in Paint (Recording)

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