Painting Wildlife in Oils
Adult Online Art | Available
ONLINE on Zoom | 10am-1pm Arizona Time (*always on Mountain Standard Time) | April 24th, May 1st and 8th -- 3 Thursdays | recording will be available for up to 2 months
Join Dustin Van Wechel for this intensive, online wildlife painting workshop designed to improve your technique and approach to creating dynamic wildlife paintings in oil. Participants will learn techniques for mixing color, brushwork, handling edges, creating texture and building an expressive, layered paint surface. Participants will each work from the same reference as the instructor and follow along step-by-step over the entire process to gain a fundamental understanding of the various ways in which Dustin works to produce a wildlife painting. Each of the 3 hour sessions will include a brief lecture on topics related to that session, as well as a demo of the painting process. Participants will be able to ask questions and interact with the instructor in real-time throughout all of the sessions.
Dustin Van Wechel
In February of 2002, Dustin Van Wechel left a successful 8-year career in the advertising industry to pursue his life-long passion, fine art, full-time.
Since then, Dustin has earned numerous distinctions including the 2015 'Bob Kuhn Award for Wildlife' at the Masters of the American West Show, the '2015 Premier Platinum Award' at the Buffalo Bill Show, the 'Wildlife Award' and 'Teton Lodge Company Award' at the 2006 Arts for the Parks competition, and he's been featured in several leading art publications such as Art of the West, Western Art Collector Magazine, Southwest Art, The Artist’s Magazine, The Pastel Journal, and Drawing Magazine.
His work has been exhibited all throughout the U.S., in one-man shows, major art exhibitions and museums including the National Museum of Wildlife Art, the Autry National Center, the Buffalo Bill Historical Center, the Booth Museum and the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum.
Dustin's work is represented by Trailside Galleries in Jackson, Wyoming. He and his wife, Yvonne, currently reside in Colorado Springs, CO.