Renaissance Oil Techniques

For Landscapes At SCAN

The Society of Creative Arts of Newtown (SCAN) will host David Dunlop of Wilton as its next guest artist. Mr Dunlop will be painting an oil landscape during SCAN’s next meeting, on Wednesday, September 8, at 7:30 pm.

The program will take place at Newtown Meeting House (lower level), 31 Main Street in Newtown (at the flagpole). The public is invited, free of charge.

David Dunlop will demonstrate Renaissance oil painting techniques and lecture simultaneously on historic oil painting methods, composition and culture. Using transparent oil glazes and DaVinci’s S’Fumato oil painting approach as well as the ideas of other historic painters of landscape such as Rembrandt, Turner, Hudson River painters, Inness, and Whistler, Mr Dunlop will reveal secrets of their luminosity, designs, palette, textures, brushwork and symbology. He will also discuss evolving color theories, compositional principles, and historic picture content considerations.

Mr Dunlop received his master of fine arts from Pratt Institute in New York City. Earlier this year had a one-artist show, ‘Dunlop Paints the Northwest Corner,” at White Gallery in Lakeville. Also this year a show entitled “Oil Paintings on Linen & 23 Karat Gold Leaf” was held at the Attic Gallery in Portland, Ore.

Last year Mr Dunlop had one-artist shows at Left of the Bank in Old Greenwich, Beaux Arts Gallery in Woodbury, and The Lily Pad Gallery in Watch Hill, R.I.

David Dunlop is represented in many prestigious collections in the US and abroad. He has a two-part DVD/video program, Painting Landscape with David Dunlop, with the first half of the program concerning oil and the second half acrylics.

A faculty member at Silvermine School of Art in New Canaan, Mr Dunlop was commissioned to do the artwork for the book Tidewaters of the Connecticut River (2001 River’s End Press, Essex).