Dan Beck- Landscape and Portrait Studies Painting Class - Two-Day Workshop

Explore Painting with Dan Beck-Two Day

ACRYLIC OR OIL - 6 hours each day

Search your own journey exploring Head Studies and Landscape Painting

We are so thrilled to welcome Dan Beck back to Clayton, NC for this intimate setting for the first 8 students that grab their seat. He will do a demo each day and also a critique of all the painter's works on the last day of our class.

Dan Beck is an award-winning, amazing artist, that uses impressionistic approaches in his paintings. Dan has also been featured in many magazines. He engages students in a more advanced way of impressionistic thinking using strokes and colors to allow the subject matter to appear.You can find his works at www.DanBeckArt.com online or in his very own gallery in Wilmington, NC. Dan is also a very kind person that enjoys to share his knowledge with his students.

This is a two-day workshop. The first day will focus on landscapes from your own reference or from some of the Dan's references. There will also be two still-life arrangements set up in the center of each table grouping for your usage as well. The second day will focus on head studies. We will include a live clothed model for the first two hours. Paint from your photos the rest of the day or paint another new reference. This could be either yours or one Dan brings in for your use. The second half of the second day use to complete some works.

He will demo each day and work along with the students, assisting them along the way when needed. Focus will be on composition, use of color, marks, texture, line, and more. A suggested supply list will be emailed once class is full and again two weeks prior to class. Plan on good starts or completing 2-4 paintings

This class is suggested for those that have some experience with holding a brush and some color mixing painting skills. We will be working on tables with easels which hold a substrate of 12x16 max. The larger ones just will not work in the space allotted for you. It will be your choice of either acrylic or oil. Only odorless solvents with air tight lids will be allowed in the space. Use sparingly please. Students must supply their own canvases, or canvas boards, paints, a variety of brushes, water/solvent containers, rags, knives, etc-.

We will have dump buckets for acrylic water, however all solvents must be in an airtight container and taken home at the end of the 2 days of classroom sessions. Also, very important, you will be taking your wet oil painting home each day, so please prepare and bring a box to transport them to your car.

If this class sounds ideal for you, we suggest you sign up asap as it will sell out quickly.

We do have a fridge, if you want to bring a lunch. Bring a lidded drink and we will have filtered water for refills. We will also offer light snacks during the lunch break.

Need a place to stay, no worries, there is a B&B directly across the street. Just give us a call and we will provide you with the new owner’s information and check if renovations are completed. www.claytonmagnolia.com

DATES:

June 6th, a Friday-10-4

June 7th, a Saturday-10-4

COST : $380.00 Includes both days) 10-4 with a small lunch and model

LOCATION: Heart2Hands Art Gallery & Studios Sunroom

472 E. Second Street, Clayton, NC 27520

919-359-9006