Working from a live model, students will learn to translate their observations into quick, broad, color spots—the most effective foundation for pictorial development.  Emphasis will be placed on achieving color harmony and balanced tonal relationships.

In addition to this intuitive and wholistic approach, techniques will also be discussed that isolate and focus on developing the specificity of form, its orientation to the light, and accuracy in proportion, all while working wet-into-wet.

Class sessions will consist of lectures, demonstrations, and one-on-one critiques while students work on their own.

David Baird (b. 1986, USA) is an oil painter and draftsman primarily focused on figurative work. He has taught classes in the US, Australia, and Europe, and has also been visiting faculty at Studio Escalier, a contemporary classical art school, since 2016.

In 2006, he began his training at the Ryder Studio School in Santa Fe, New Mexico. He went on to attend classes at Studio Escalier (Argenton Chateau/Paris, France), and The Jerusalem Studio School (Jerusalem, Israel), as well as benefitting from extensive exposure to some of Europe’s greatest museums and works of art.