Landscapes Through Time with David Dunlop - Season One and Season Two

We follow J.M.W. Turner (1775-1851) to Venice where his experimentations during his three trips there served as a sensual catalyst for his future work. David discusses Turner's watercolor techniques overlooking the Grand Canal. He then paints an oil sketch overlooking the Dogana and San Giorgio Maggiore, the same scenes immortalized in many of Turner's transcendent paintings from Venice.

David travels to many magical locations in Venice captured by the great Venetian landscape painter, Francesco Guardi (1712-1783). He creates a pen and ink drawing of the beautiful baroque church, Santa Maria della Salute, and then paints an oil demonstration overlooking the Cannaregio, a scene painted by Guardi and Canaletto, exploring Guardi's spirited brushstrokes and expressive skies.

John Singer Sargent (1856-1925) travels to Venice many times over a 40-year period and paints dazzling plein air watercolor landscapes, turning away from portraiture. David paints a watercolor demonstration at the famous Piazza dei Giovanni e Paolo, the same scene painted by Sargent and centuries of painters, exploring Sargent's color theory and painting technique.

David travels to iconic Venetian locations that inspired provocative artist James Abbott McNeill Whistler (1834-1903) during his transformative trip in 1879-1880 after a disastrous libel trial. David demonstrates a dry point on copper plate alongside the Rio de San Barnaba canal, located near Whistler's first studio at the Ca' Rezzonico, demonstrating Whistler's brilliance in graphic design.

David travels to iconic Venetian locations that inspired provocative artist James Abbott McNeill Whistler (1834-1903) to create a series of pastels during his transformative trip in 1879-1880, after a disastrous libel trial. David demonstrates a pastel drawing using Whistler's techniques and color palette while standing on the Giudecca overlooking the broad panorama of Venice.

David travels on the rocky shores of Prouts Neck, Maine, where the famously enigmatic Winslow Homer (1836-1910) lived for the last 27 years of his life and painted some of his most recognizable, theatrical, and iconic seascapes. Battling the wind, David paints an evocative watercolor at the famed Cannon Rock, and an oil sketch of the rocks and turbulent sea in front of Homer's studio.

David visits the rocky shores of Prouts Neck, Maine, where the famously enigmatic Winslow Homer (1836-1910) lived for the final 27 years of his life and painted some of his most theatrical, and iconic seascapes. David explores the calm tidepools swirling around the rocky shores and discusses Homer's techniques and palette as he paints an oil painting of the shores of Maine from the rocks.

David travels to a secluded woodland stream in New England, following in the footsteps of Hudson River painters such as Thomas Cole (1801-1848) and Asher Durand (1796-1886). David paints an oil study of the intimate stream in a setting of dense and dappled foliage, demonstrating techniques of painting water and woods used by the Hudson River painters to convey emotion as well as inspiration.