MARK LAGUE
APRIL 16, 17 AND 18, 2010
PAINTING PEOPLE FROM PHOTOS
9:30 am to 4:30 pm
Cost: $350

In this workshop you will learn to incorporate people into your paintings. Using candid photos of people in their natural environment, we will explore the compositional possibilities of people in groups or individually. We will also focus on gesture drawing, and how to simplify the human form. Once you are able to see people as a series of shapes and values, you will realise that painting people is no more difficult than painting a tree or a flower. It's really about painting what you see and not what you know (or what you think you know), that will lead to much stronger paintings.

Mark Lague has garnered considerable recognition in both his native Canada (Quebec) and the United States for his paintings which sparkle with light and exude a palpable energy. Lague has been accepted into a number of prestigious juried exhibitions, including the American Watercolor Society Annual , Salmagundi Club, NYC, 1996 and 2003; Salon International Annual, Greenhouse Gallery, San Antonio, TX, 2002 and 2003; American Artists Professional League Annual, Salmagundi Club, NYC, 1996 and 2002 (recipient of "American Artists Fund Award"); Oil Painters of America East/Southeast Regional Exhibition (Brazier Fine Art, Richmond, VA), 2002 (recipient of "Award of Excellence"), the Allied Artists of America (NYC), 1997; and the S.C.A. Annual (Montreal, Quebec), 1996 (Honorable Mention). He has also had solo exhibitions at the Galerie Art & Culture and at the McCord Museum, both in Montreal, Quebec, as well as the Marchant Gallery in Lancaster, Ontario.