Master Class in Oil Portraiture with David Goatley

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Sunday, March 8th, 2020
10:00 AM to 4:00 PM

This is a workshop for students who are confident drawing and painting people, but who want to explore advanced topics and techniques related to portraiture. Painting directly from the same live model, we will explore alla pima wet-on-wet oil painting techniques, composition, colour, and tone. Our goal is to develop a higher level of skill and competence while having lots of fun translating the reality of another person into paint

With clear step-by-step, hands-on instructions, a wealth of technical tips, continuous demonstrations, and personal instruction at each student’s easel, David will show students how to approach the challenges of portraiture with confidence in our ongoing personal journeys of expression through brush and paint.

Learn more about David Goatley:

David studied painting at London’s Camberwell School of Art before embarking on a successful 16 year advertising career. Whilst advertising did not prove creatively satisfying (the need to paint was never far away) it did give him a taste for hard work, imaginative solutions, and the strong sense of design that helped make his paintings immediately recognizable. Each of his portraits is as distinct as the individuals in them, capturing the personality and life in his subjects that allows us to feel we really know these people.

It is a skill that has led to almost 400 commissions thus far, across Canada, the UK, 24 states of the USA as well as in Israel, Panama, Spain and India. His subjects have included Princes, a Peer, a Prime Minister, provincial Premiers, five Lt. Governors, a Bishop and leaders in Business, Academia, the Arts and the Law as well as many families. His work is included in 2 Royal Collections as well as the collections of governments, museums, corporations, intuitions and in hundreds of private homes.