This class is for artists who have had some experience working from the model, and are interested in developing new approaches to figurative painting in oil (or acrylic). Participants will work directly from the figure each day, and will be encouraged to focus on process versus product. Early in the week, classes will consist of many quick oil studies or gesture paintings, completed in 20 minute to one hour intervals; participants will work toward longer studies as the week progresses. The goal is to challenge and increase one’s ability to see.
	Donald Beal was born in Syracuse NY in 1959, and grew up in Westford MA. He studied painting at Swain School of Design in New Bedford MA and then in New York City at Brooklyn College and at Parsons School of Design. Beal has lived and worked in Provincetown MA since 1985 with his wife Khristine Hopkins and son Max. He has been in numerous group and solo exhibitions in New York and throughout the region including a recent solo show at the Cape Museum of Fine Arts in the fall of 2004. He is currently a professor of fine arts at the University of Massachusetts where he’s taught since 1999, and has been a guest lecturer and visiting artist in schools across New England.
Materials List for Donald Beal Oil or Acrylic (oil is preferred) Suggested colors: White, cadmium yellow, yellow ochre, Venetian red or equivalent, cadmium red, alizarin crimson, cerulean blue, cobalt blue, ultramarine blue deep, permanent green, viridian green, lamp black. Rags or paper towels Container of thinner with lid- Gamsol or Sansodor for thinners & Galkyd or Liquin for mediums Brushes (large, small, rounds and flats) Palette Knife Something to paint on: stretched canvas, canvas board, gessoed plywood, or watercolor paper.