Painting a Summer Landscape with David Dunlop

Published 2023-09-08
Painting A Summer Landscape in Oil with David Dunlop. This program is an excerpt from Emmy award winning artist and teacher David Dunlop's live online landscape painting Workshops. In this program, David examines and diagrams several photographs that he uses as a photo reference for his painting, considering different compositional choices. David discusses his color palette selection and then paints a summer landscape painting while presenting different tips and techniques in his entertaining and inspiring style.
Oil Palette: Citron Lemon Yellow – Sennelier; French Primary Yellow – Charvin Extra Fine; Gamboge – Old Holland; French Ultramarine Blue Light Extra – Old Holland; Thalo Cyan Blue – Charvin Extra Fine; Sanguine Red or Brown – Charvin Extra Fine; Scheveningen Blue Light – Old Holland; and Titanium White - Charvin Extra Fine.
Painting Surface: Dibond Aluminum Composite
Visit daviddunlop.com for more information about our live streaming workshops and other DVDs, including our PBS Series Landscapes Through Time with David Dunlop.

All Comments (21)
  • @luigi5890
    Thanks David for the great video, we are greedy and need more. LOL.
  • This just came into my YT feed. Always nice to see new material from David.
  • @fcratin3216
    Thank you so much! You are just the BEST teacher ever - makes me want to return to Connecticut so I canbreathe in the same air! Amazing.
  • @carolmueller5617
    It’s great to see you give and wonderful art demo. You’re joyful painting spirit is contagious. Thank you for sharing your thinking process and painting expertise with us!
  • @hugop1264
    Thank you David, there is a great lesson here that is worth gold, and you articulated it beautifully. Composition should not only be informed, but rooted in art history. All the mechanics aspects and abstract elements of the composition should resonate in harmony with a poetic element rooted in art history. Thank you for carrying the mantle of the artist and sharing your knowledge with a broader audience. I hope a can be a torch bearer for the art tradition as well.
  • I like a lot the way you explain all steps using different brushes, your own fingers, paper towel, and so on... Then one can start to seen how light and darkness stay at their right places with beautiful balance.
  • @dmjune1
    Great camera work and editing. And Rebecca is knowledgeable, too! I'm 62 y.o. 12 years ago, I began teaching myself to paint by watching and following along with Bob Ross demos. After awhile, I moved away from his methods; in fact, I felt like much of his brushwork was too simplistic and telling. Very large brushes, stippling, sgraffito for example. In doing so, after watching your video, I see I have been making my life more difficult. I'm not comparing your methods to Ross, but rather I now see the value in using the methods you have so deftly demonstrated, when and where I can. This painting is beautiful. It reminds me of John Constable's complex, twisted trees and underbrush of ordered and natural confusion. Thank you.
  • @arcuda2001
    david, i have recommended your channel to sooo many fellow artists !! you're just wonderful to watch, and to listen to .. your enthusiasm and joy is infectious 😬😬thank you so much , to you and to rebecca !! Norakag, here 👍
  • @oscarparedes5308
    Love the temperature and the eye magnet. Thank you for these beautiful journey of tonalism.
  • @monicaagee2716
    Glad I found your channel. Watched you years ago on tv. Loved your show. Learned so much about the old masters. Thank you for you videos.
  • @alanbennett2855
    I enjoyed everything about this video. You inspire me to try new techniques and expand my painting horizons.
  • @bobgoodnoe4583
    Brilliant, sir. Thank you for sharing this technique. 👍
  • @lisengel2498
    And I loved the softening of edges when the painting class was near the end and the vibrations rhythms of pale pink sky and the yellow grass 💛🩷
  • Mr. Dunlop, its so good to see u. Ive been a fan & a student for many years now. Thank u for the content & continued commitment to education. The best to u & urs. 🥳
  • @dektold76
    Beautiful depth and contrast. I like the pallet for this work. The Lemon really lights it up. Summer afternoon. - Patrick