Workshops

Painting, Drawing and the art of "seeing"

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

    This workshop will explore essential watercolour techniques, colour and composition through a series of sustained step by step paintings as well as critiques.  Landscapes of sky, water, rock and flora will be our inspiration for this intermediate to advanced watercolour course.  (Art materials to be supplied by each participant.  Supply list available in first class.)

For Information (look for programs)       http://www.rom.on.ca/       416-586-5549       Royal Ontario Museum       100 Queen's Park       Toronto, Ontario       M5S 2C6

   Watercolour Inspired by the Canadian landscape.  Exploration of essential watercolour techniques and perception exercises will enable participants the ability to paint directly from nature.  Creativity with this spontaneous and fluid medium will be emphasized.
(Regular watercolour paper and supplies.  Recommended List available in first class.)

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