Workshops

Painting, Drawing and the art of "seeing"

For more information on David's mutimedia presentations visit http://www.artistjourneys.com/shows.html

We will explore essential watercolour techniques and perception exercises that will enable participants the ability to paint directly from nature. Watercolour's magical flowing spontaneity and ethereal softness as well as its ability to make crisp highly defined form are explored, using the ocean shoreline, mountains and rainforest as our inspiration.  Lessons will combine a sustained studio painting exercise as well as many outside on location exercises, weather permitting. (all levels welcome)

Workshop Demos

The David McEown Watercolour Workshop was a huge success according to the feedback from the sixteen participants.  The workshop began on Thursday evening with a well documented talk and slide presentation, "Sharing his passion and love of art and the natural world", to quote David's biography.  He then mesmerized his audience, made up of club members and non- members, by rendering in watercolour a magnificent landscape on a full sheet of his favourite "Saunders Watercolour paper".  Truly a treat to witness.      The following two days of the workshop, David put us all through our paces beginning with exercises in colour theory each morning,and then the group set to work with their own effort based on David's teaching.   Each day was supplemented with David painting and discussing very clearly his every stroke and use of colour for what ever mood he was painting.      David is a fine watercolourist who charmed us all with his wit, stories and talent.  He has painted in virtually every corner of this fine country.  He has opened our eyes-wider.  The Arbutus Ridge Art Club has been blessed in the past 3 years by having artists such as Robert Genn, Jack Reid, Pat Fischer, Grant Fuller and now David McEown, among others, to help guide our brushes in search of that perfection we all seek in ourselves. (Rich Brown, Arbutus Ridge Art Club, Vancouver Island , British Columbia)

Full sheet demo from the Grand Tetons	Agawa Falls Sunrise, (International Artist Magazine)
Rainforest demo, Royal Ontario Museum, Intermediate, 2008	Polar bear demo, Polar Arts Program, Quark Expeditions, Baffin Island, 2006