EXHIBITS

David Dunlop Shows - TO BE UPDATED SOON

June 18, 2010, OPENING 6 to 8 pm
Solo Show, “New York City and Connecticut Scenes,”
Susan Powell Fine Arts | 679 Boston Post Road Madison CT 06443-3080 | www.susanpowellfineart.com | 203-318-0616

August 21, 2010, OPENING 12:00 pm
The School of Art Faculty Exhibition
Silvermine Art Guild | 1037 Silvermine Road, New Canaan, CT 06840 | 203-966-6668 ext. 2 Fee: $10 Course Code: TBA www.silvermineart.org

ARTIST TOURS WITH DAVID DUNLOP

Paint the Fabled Landscape of Tuscany with David Dunlop
Monday, August 16 to Sunday, August 22, 2010 | $3,500
Silvermine Art Guild | 1037 Silvermine Road, New Canaan, CT 06840 | 203-966-6668 ext. 2 Fee: $10 Course Code: TBA www.silvermineart.org

Join Silvermine for a Tuscan painting adventure featuring the famous countryside and the city of Florence with Emmy Award-winning instructor David Dunlop! We’ll be staying in a country estate house located in the heart of the Chianti wine-growing area, just 20 minutes outside of Florence. The Renaissance villa, called Villa Il Poggiale, has been entirely renovated. Your elegant room will have a private bathroom, air-conditioning, mini-bar, telephone, satellite color television, internet wireless, a safe, and tea and coffee-making facilities. There is a pool in the terraced gardens looking out over the countryside. A wellness center is available. Access www.villailpoggiale.com to see for yourself.

No Tuscan experience would be complete without Tuscan food. The villa boasts a fine restaurant where we will linger over many meals. Breakfast daily is also included as well as lunches when we are at the villa.

David will be starting painting days with a demonstration and will be there to work with you as you create. He will also lead photo walks so that you can go home with a treasure-trove of images to work from.

Several days we will travel the short distance into Florence to visit its famous museums and art sites with David as your guide.

Pick up and return to Florence airport, within a reasonable time period, are included. To sign up for this fabulous trip, contact The Silvermine School of Art at school@silvermineart.org, 203 966 6668 x2 or go to www.silvermineart.org.
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The Culture, Science and Art of Color
October 24, 2010 | Sunday | 4:30pm
Silvermine Art Guild | 1037 Silvermine Road, New Canaan, CT 06840 | 203-966-6668 ext. 2
Fee: $10 | Course Code: DDLECTSUN430PM102410

What do colors mean in paintings, n other cultures, in history? How do we perceive color? How do we use it, mix it, find it, and make it? What are its effects on romance, on lighting your living room or kitchen or suggesting time of day or direction or mood in a painting, on a garment, or on a wall? What were the color theories of the Romans, the Persians, the Ancient Chinese, the Impressionist, the Renaissance, the Modernists, and today’s contemporary designers and artists?
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Da Vinci, the first Neuro-Scientist
February 6, 2011 | Sunday | 4:30
Silvermine Art Guild | 1037 Silvermine Road, New Canaan, CT 06840 | 203-966-6668 ext. 2
Fee: $10 | Course Code: DDLECTSUN430PM020611

How did Leonardo’s discoveries in the art of painting and the biology of vision predict and alter the future of art? What were his methods and materials? How did later artists adopt his theories on color and perspective and the depiction of light, motion and form? How did he use his scientific observations to re-invent the way we look at and make pictures? What is his influence on artist practicing today? What observations contemporary artists have neglected?
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WORKSHOPS

Representing Autumn: Painting Trees and Meadows in October
October 16, 2010 | Saturday | 10:00 - 3:00pm for One Day
Silvermine Art Guild | 1037 Silvermine Road, New Canaan, CT 06840 | 203-966-6668 ext. 2
Fee: $120 | Course Code: DDSAT10AM101610 www.silvermineart.org

In this workshop there will be demonstrations in a variety of mediums and methods for painting trees and fields of autumn New England landscape. Historical approaches to representing autumn from the Hudson River School Painters to contemporary landscape painters are presented. The tradition of making an etude of a tree or tree cluster will be demonstrated. An example of how to build volume develops individual structure and how light sculpts and colors the texture of trees.
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Painting Skies
November 20, 2010 | Saturday | 10:00 - 3:00pm for One Day
Silvermine Art Guild | 1037 Silvermine Road, New Canaan, CT 06840 | 203-966-6668 ext. 2
Fee: $120 | Course Code: DDSAT10AM112010

From the Venetian swirling turbulence of Tiepolo’s ceilings to the pastoral serenity of Monet’s sunny mid-afternoons examine how skies have been painted. Make skies luminosity through simultaneous brightness and contrast, apparitions of fog and mist, humidity and low lying vapors with atmospheric perspective and semi-translucent glazes. Learn the secrets of dazzling sunlight trough the principles of concentric darkening annuli, coronas, halation, backlit layered and positioned clouds, sunrise to sunset and mid-day palettes. Learn to make skies vibrate with light and brilliance or quiver with dark foreboding or the promise of a departing storm. We will explore historic painters’ use of poetic metaphor in skies and how to create varieties of mood from the “Romantic Sublime Sky” to immeasurable space. Come and observe only or paint and observe.
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CLASSES

How To Paint a Really Good Landscape - Beginning to Intermediate
September 28- December 14, 2010 | Tuesday | 9:30am-12:30pm for 12 Weeks
Silvermine Art Guild | 1037 Silvermine Road, New Canaan, CT 06840 | 203-966-6668 ext. 2
Fee: $435 | Course Code: DDTUE930AM092810

Classical traditions and modern methods will be presented through demonstrations and hands-on instruction. How to build effective designs, sketches, color, values, perspective, textures, brushwork and learning from the masters (Da Vinci to Monet) are all part of this course. Demonstrations and illustrated lectures include techniques and ideas of the great masters in watercolor, oil, acrylic, photo-media and pastel. Subjects range from exacting representation to abstraction, from interiors to exteriors, urban to rural, seaside to farm and all forms of weather. Personal consultation in each class to help you realize your ambitions.
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Investigating the Landscape: In Representation, Abstraction, Expressionism and Illusion - Intermediate & Advanced
September 28- December 14, 2010 | Tuesday | 1:30am-4:30pm for 12 Weeks
Silvermine Art Guild | 1037 Silvermine Road, New Canaan, CT 06840 | 203-966-6668 ext. 2
Fee: $435 | Course Code: DDTUE130PM092810

There will be investigations in perception, sensation and how we experience color, motion, space, and orientation. We will borrow historic techniques and ideas across cultures from Europe to China. Consideration of the machinations of color: its perception, mixing and variable applications will be covered. Personal psychology, discoveries in neuroscience, mysticism, paint technology and new materials will also be covered. We will build brush vocabularies, design vocabularies and try new materials. Through demonstrations and illustrated talks students will learn the techniques and ideas of historic artists. Demonstrations will include watercolor, acrylic and oil. Personal consultations in each class cultivate your own vision and enable you to realize your personal artistic ambitions.
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