David Maclagan
David Maclagan believes in the saying “If
you can’t draw well, you can’t paint well.” Further, he has claimed that a good
drawing often overshadows a lesser colored painting.
He works comfortably in 40 mediums on a
broad range of subject matter from landscape or figures to mystical art. He has
had over 40 murals in ceramic, wood, acrylic, plastic latex, glass mosaic,
alkyd, co-polymers and including a 120-ft long cast resin, historical window
mural and for the Yukon Legislative Buildings. In his book, Location Drawing, David Maclagan has
successfully sketched his works of art highlighting the different angles,
situations, circumstances of all 56 countries he was able to travel to.
His professions highly involve many forms of art and design since
he graduated from the Ontorio College of Art in 1957. He’s had regular
one-person shows in prominent Canadian galleries since 1970 and paintings in
shows in Canada, England, Japan, Mexico, the U.S.A., China and Korea. David
Maclagan had 26 years of teaching mediums and techniques, anatomy, drawing,
design, and advanced illustration at Capilano College/University in North
Vancouver. Moreover, he has become known for his professional researching
skills on perception, visual programming, visually enhanced environments, and
the universal consistencies of the visual process. He conducted seminars and workshops for art
groups throughout western Canada and became a guest lecturer and artist on the
Swan Hellenic Cruise Line “Journeys of Discovery in Europe, Asia, and North
Africa.
David Maclagan is considered as a Canadian
watercolorist, who has been able to paint in 30 countries, all the Canadian
provinces and all 50 of the Unites States.
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