Tom and William Forrestall
JULY 8-10, 2022
9 - 4 pm
For Novice - Experienced
Course Fee: $ 325
Bring your own materials
Class Capacity: 10
About the Instructors
Thomas Forrestall C.M., O.C., O.N.S., B.F.A. LL.D., R.C.A was born in Middleton Nova Scotia, in 1936. His early interest in art was stimulated by his families’ books on art. When his family moved to Dartmouth, he attended Saturday morning classes at the NSCAD in Halifax.
Later, he received a scholarship to study art in the Fine Arts department at Mount Allison University, where he was a student of Lawren P. Harris , Ted Pulford and Alex Colville . He graduated in 1958 the same year he received one of the first Canada Council grants that allowed him to travel through Europe studying art at the great galleries. When he returned, he worked for a short time as the assistant curator of the Beaverbrook Art Gallery in Fredericton, N.B. before turning to painting full time, he has been a full time artist since 1960. As an artist, Forrestall is one of the leading figures associated with the visual arts of Canada's Maritime region.
William Forrestall has been using egg tempera paint for most of his career. His iconic still life paintings have been recognized for their unique contribution to contemporary art in over 150 solo and group exhibitions, as well as a career retrospective at the New Brunswick Museum in 2009, accompanied by publication. Broken Jaw Press also published a 147 page text on his drawings done at the Ashmolean Museum at Oxford.
He has served on numerous regional and national boards and juries, including the Canadian Cultural Property Export Review Board where he oversaw the disposition of over 800 million dollars worth of art and cultural artifacts . His awards include Canada Council and provincial arts grants, a Brucebo Traveling Fellowship. His work is represented in the Canada Council Art Bank, New Brunswick Museum, The Nova Scotia Art Gallery, The New Brunswick Art Bank, The Beaverbrook Art Gallery and other public and private collections.
Contact: willforall@gmail.com
Course Description
This course will offer an excellent introduction to the practice of Egg Tempera Painting. Lead by two of the Maritimes most experienced practitioners, Tom and William Forrestall.
The medium of Egg Tempera has been used by some of the leading artists of Western Civilization from Leonardo da Vinci to the Maritimes own Alex Colville.
Egg tempera painting has always held a unique appeal in particularly to realist painters both in the Maritimes and beyond . The paintings of Andrew Wyeth, Tom Forrestall, George Tooker and D.P. Brown are a testament to the unique aesthetics that can and have been develop from this unique medium. In the hands of a experienced artist, egg-tempera can rival any medium in terms of representational descriptiveness.
The harmonious aesthetic of egg tempera painting has been both a corner stone and an aesthetic vehicle for generations of realist artists, This course will offer a introduction to this timeless medium.
Course Details
Students will learn the process of completing their own egg tempera painting, along with all the other details they may be interested in, including:
The history and practice of Egg Tempera painting and its twentieth century revival.
How to make the egg tempera paint.
A description of the egg tempera painting process.
How to create paintings both on paper and traditional gesso ground
Examples of painting styles, and techniques.
Supplies to bring
Eggs
Prepared gesso panels (supplied by William Forrestall)
Powdered pigments (supplied by William Forrestall)
Water
Heavy hot press or another smooth surface paper on which to paint
Watercolour brushes – a few larger/ small round brushes and/or a few flat brushes
A palette, a few small containers, and paper towels
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