Painting Seas and Shorelines with David Dunlop

Explore the power and magic of painting with Emmy® award winning David Dunlop! Join the team that created the PBS series for an informative and inspiring workshop. Learn exciting old master and contemporary techniques in oil for creating dramatic sea and shoreline effects from acclaimed artist and teacher David Dunlop. His infectious enthusiasm and multi-disciplinary perspective combining art, history, philosophy, science and technique will provide a unique workshop experience for you.

This 4 program DVD set contains the following programs and explores a wide variety of painting styles and techniques:

1. Sea and Shoreline Introduction in the Studio (25 minutes). David discusses several fundamental techniques and considerations of painting waves and the shore. He illustrates this discussion with examples from great masters and explores how they use color, movement and texture to create different aspects of the sea and shore.

2. Painting Waves at the Shore - Studio Demonstration (97 minutes). David paints a dynamic wave flowing along the beach in this studio demonstration in oil on aluminum. He begins with a brief discussion of different seascape paintings and then demonstrates different techniques, color mixing, brushstrokes and other tools for painting waves and the sea.

3. The Sea and Rocky Coast at Prouts Neck, Maine (51 minutes). David travels to the rocky shores of Prouts Neck, Maine, where the famously enigmatic Winslow Homer (1836-1910) lived for the last 27 years of his life and painted some of his most recognizable, theatrical, and iconic seascapes. Battling the wind, David paints an evocative watercolor and an oil sketch at the location of the famed Cannon Rock, immortalized in Homer’s paintings.

4. Rocks and Seagrass at the Shore - Studio Demonstration (56 minutes). In his studio, David paints a study in oil of rocks and sea grass from a photo of a fog-drenched Massachusetts shoreline. He first discusses how he selects an image as the inspiration for a painting. He then explores the compositional considerations and how to retain an exciting tension when painting areas of great detail and activity and areas of calm and repose. He demonstrates different techniques using brushes and squeegees and explores their myriad effects.

David Dunlop. David Dunlop is a superb artist, art historian, teacher and raconteur. He is the host, artist and Emmy® award winning writer of the PBS series Landscapes Through Time with David Dunlop and the art instructional DVD series Painting Landscapes with David Dunlop. He has an inspiring and informative teaching style, sharing his wide knowledge of painting theory, history and methods with you in a warm and engaging manner. A classically trained artist, with a Masters of Fine Arts from Pratt Institute in New York City, his works are included in many galleries and national and international art collections. He is a frequent lecturer at many museums and galleries, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.

Directed by Emmy® award winning Connie Simmons and produced by SimmonsArt Inc.

Please visit www.daviddunlop.com for information about David’s lectures, workshops, paintings, and DVDs.