David Simons

Oil Painting

We will learn how to map out an image on our panel. We’ll look for values, shapes and our center of interest. Usually, the lightest lights and the darkest darks should be here and we'll begin to establish it by wiping out the major light shapes with turps and a rag or brush.

Now, the image will likely be visible. We’ll add color, working from the darks to finish with the lights. As we work, we should add subtle variation within the shapes to add interest. We’ll look at edges, examine the role of raw brushwork, chaos and shapes.

Finally… See. Painting is not what I am trying to teach you. So many techniques can be learned in six months as we painters try to practice and perfect our ability to see color and shapes as they are without judgment, and honestly place them down. If we work on this, our paintings will improve immensely.

So don’t paint things. Paint the impression of things. If we don’t think about the thing is that we are painting, we will be much more accurate in conveying the right shape, color and value. The creative side of the brain is the right side. The judgmental, analytical, and labeling side is the left. We can only convey to the viewers the joy and beauty of what we are looking at by painting with our heart and spirit and not our heads.

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Biography

David Simons was born in Ontario, Canada in 1951. In 1984 he moved to Haifa, Israel to work as a construction supervisor on major projects at the Baha'i World Centre. It was in Israel that he began painting, at the age of 33.

David is a self-taught artist. Having started as a watercolorist, he now prefers painting in oil. He is primarily a landscape artist but also enjoys still life and portrait painting.

David has lived in Tubac, Arizona since 1993. His work has won acclaim in the southwestern United States and is collected internationally. David is a member of Oil Painters of America. He is also a distinguished Artist Member of the Tucson Plein Air Painters' Society, and one of the founding members of PASSA (Plein Air Painters' Society of Southern AZ). He is also a member of the American Impressionist Society.

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