Paint Like Les Fauves!: Oil Pastel Landscapes

with David Baker

4-day, June 16–19, 3:00–6:00 p.m.

Tuition: $300

Materials Fee: N/A

Inspired by the French painters from the period 1905-1908 known as the Fauves (the wild beasts) this workshop will invite students to work boldly to translate the Ox-Bow landscape in oil pastel. Discussing the work of Vincent van Gogh, Henri Matisse, Maurice Vlaminck, Andre Derain, and Georges Braque, we will create small paintings and build our bold strokes with oil pastels in electric colors. 

Plan to bring: Heavy drawing paper and a good set of oil pastels.

David Baker (he/him) is a visual artist who specializes in poetic landscape painting, much of it done en plein air. His studio pieces are often reinterpretations of paintings done outdoors. His principle media are watercolor, oil, and charcoal.
David is a lifelong artist/teacher. He recently retired as art professor Emeritus from Southwestern Michigan College. He earned his MFA from Indiana State University. Over the years he has mounted more than four dozen solo exhibits. David has taught at Ox-Bow School of Art since 2000 and at Krasl Art Center since 2016. He has served on board of the South Haven Center for the Arts since 2017. He maintains a studio, and chairs the exhibition committee, at the Box Factory for the Arts in St. Joseph.

Maurice de Vlaminck, Sous-Bois, oil, 1907