Mountain Artists Guild Presents David Simons
Oil
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March 12, 13, 14
Members $235; Non-members $275
Beginners to Advanced
Minimum: 7
Maximum: 12
No refunds (or cancellations)
after March 1.
Registration Form
Description of workshop:
I help the students to establish good value relationships in their paintings and how this determines the final result of their efforts. Also I stress the importance of suggestive brushwork and how to take their paintings beyond a mere copy their subject.
I believe that by learning to see differently, you will paint differently and that when you have the "Painter's eye," you will know what to do. I share these and other ideas which I have discovered over the last 25 years, and consider these and other points as keys to successful painting.
I start each day with a demonstration explaining how I approach the process and answer any questions that the students may have. In the afternoons the students paint and I instruct and help them through the process.
Supplies:
12x16 or 16x20 panels or canvas, primed
odorless mineral spirits
easel, your choice
assorted brushes, your choice, preferably flats, #2 to #12
paper towels
Liquin or preferred medium (optional)
paints: titanium white, burnt umber, ultramarine blue, cad yellow med, cad red, yellow ochre, ivory black and raw sienna
Also bring a photo or photos that you like, any subject for reference if a model isn't available.
Bio:
David Simons was born in Ontario, Canada in 1951. In 1984 he moved to Haifa, Israel, to work at the Baha'i World Centre. It was in Israel that he began painting, at the age of 33.
David is a self-taught artist. He started as a watercolorist but now prefers oil. He is primarily a landscape artist but also enjoys still life and portrait painting.
David has lived in Tubac, AZ since 1993. His work has won acclaim in the southwestern US and is collected internationally. A member of Oil Painters of America, he is also a distinguished Artist Member of the Tucson Plein Air Painters' Society and is one of the founding members of PASSA (Plein Air Painters' Society of Southern AZ. In addition, he is a signature member of the American Impressionist Society.