Acrylic Painting Videos & DVDs
Create Mood & Atmosphere with Color & Value by Hugh Greer
Learn Acrylic Painting with Hugh Greer
This Hugh Greer art instruction DVD contains advanced acrylic painting lessons in which Hugh Greer demonstrates advanced techniques for painting with acrylics and demonstrates his techniques close up and in detail.
Create Mood & Atmosphere with Color & Value
Hugh Greer paints two scenes simultaneously, creating two distinctly different moods demonstrating the importance of subtle shifts in color, value and under paint colors in landscapes. Hugh uses the transparency of fluid acrylics to its fullest. Along the way, you will see remarkable brushwork, color mixing, versatile use of the medium, and a variety of tools. You will gain insights on what to look for while painting and tips on how to direct the eye to the focal point. With his keen observations and tour de force skill, it becomes absolutely clear why Hugh Greer is a national gold medal winning landscape painter!
120 min.
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Acrylic - Acrylic Landscape Painting: Tools & Techniques by Hugh Greer
Learn Acrylic Painting with Hugh Greer
Get a great start in acrylic painting with award winning artist Hugh Greer. The beginning level acrylic painting lessons in this Creative Catalyst Productions instructional video will get you excited to take your acrylic painting to the next level! Learn Hugh Greer's acrylic painting style and the techniques and tools he uses in his landscape painting.
Acrylic Landscape Painting: Tools & Techniques
Hugh Greer demonstrates the flexibility of acrylics as both an opaque and transparent medium. He covers a variety of tools, presents a versatile money-saving limited palette, simple color mixing tips, creating lively blacks and demonstrates several basic landscape images that will get you off to an enthusiastic start.
90 min.
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DVD - Acrylic Painting - Landscape Studies in Acrylic by Hugh Greer
Learn Acrylic Painting with Hugh Greer
This Creative Catalyst Productions acrylic painting DVD for beginning to intermediate students will take your painting up a notch! Join Hugh Greer as he demonstrates flexible acrylic painting methods and tools and demonstrates his techniques for painting dimensional landscapes.
Landscape Studies in Acrylic
Join Hugh Greer, for a masterful demonstration of four outdoor scenes: dry winter trees, dramatic clouds, flat prairie vista and evening winter sky.
You will learn from Hugh Greer's versatile brushwork as he manipulates a simplified, 5-color palette to achieve a wealth of rich textures and colors. Hugh Greer shows how to mix colorful blacks and rich hues and he shares some color theory. He demonstrates the versatility of acrylic paint and its use as both an opaque and transparent medium.
This is the second of three acrylic painting videos with Hugh Greer. Also see beginning level acrylic painting DVD, Acrylic Landscape Painting: Tools & Techniques, and advanced acrylic painting video Create Mood & Atmosphere with Color & Value. Hugh Greer's book, Acrylic Landscape Painting Techniques, an excellent companion to the videos, which includes 21 mini-demos that guide you to put the techniques into practice.
93 min.
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DVD - Acrylic - Acrylic Techniques by Stephen Quiller
Learn to paint with acrylics with Stephen Quiller
Let Stephen Quiller dazzle you with the amazing versatility of acrylic paints using a variety of surfaces, paint consistencies, and subjects in Acrylic Techniques DVD art workshp from Crystal Productions. Enjoy Stephen's methods and discover why he thinks acrylics are the most exciting medium!
In this Crystal Productions video/DVD, internationally known painter Stephen Quiller demonstrates several ways to handle acrylics, alone and in combination with other types of paint. Acrylics can be transparent, translucent, opaque, thick or thin; they can have the consistency of watercolor, casein, or oils.
Stephen demonstrates many examples of his acrylic painting techniques, and encourages your experimentation. He shows how to apply these techniques to a variety of surfaces including paper, illustration board, gessoed canvas, clayboard, and wood panel.
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55 Min.
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DVD - Acrylic - Acrylic as Water Media by Stephen Quiller
Learn to paint with acrylic as a water medium with Stephen Quiller
Learn to paint using the exciting medium of acrylics. In this Crystal Production Company art instruction DVD, Acrylic as Water Media, Stephen Quiller enthusiastically promotes painting with acrylics. You will be inspired by Steven Quiller's enthusiasm about the endless possibilities of acrylics as watermedia to create dazzling, luminous works of art.
Stephen Quiller, a master of water media, considers acrylics the most versatile of any painting medium. Fully recognizing that the paint has its own unique traits and qualities he encourages the viewer to give it an open-minded try! He demonstrates how acrylics work on different surfaces, under various circumstances and qualifying situations. To paraphrase Quiller, working with acrylic is an adventure. The paint can be wet, juicy, soft, runny, thick and creamy, sculptural, buttery like finger paint, transparent, translucent, or close to opaque... forcing the artist to be actively involved in paying attention to “what the paint wants to do.”
Quiller uses a glass palette and luminous intense colors. He demonstrates the variety of thickness and texture of the paint used with varying amounts of water and the endless possibilities this offers. Quiller also addresses issues concerning acrylics limitations and advantages connected to it very fast-drying properties.
Separate demonstrations include (but not limited to) a mountain cabin handled similar to traditional watercolor paints, a landscape with mountain and lake and the way to use the paint as a translucent medium. At least four other approaches are shown.
Quiller's pleasure in acrylic paints is openly discussed as he walks through this workshop. Painting one of his favorite outdoor subjects - The Rancho Church - Quiller establishes a composition. His finished reflects his interest in the play of light and perspective on any given day. The sunshine in the painting glows.
Attention to care of brushes, tools and palette surfaces are discussed and emphasis on getting to know what this type of medium can do under a variety of demands.
Stephen Quiller continually finds the fast drying qualities of acrylics exciting and capitalizes on that fact with a variety of glazes to create depth and interesting color combinations. He feels that acrylic gives the artist a new freedom to ignore old ”rules”. Quiller generates excitement about the possibilities of Acrylic as Water.
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55 Min.
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DVD - Acrylic - Water Media Techniques: Acrylic and Casein by Stephen Quiller
Learn to paint with acrylics and casein with Stephen Quiller
Stephen Quiller presents an exciting and entertaining introduction to the properties and possibilities of casein and acrylic paints in this art instruction video, Water Media Techniques: Acrylic and Casein from Crystal Productions. Watch as Stephen explores different methods to take full advantage of what acrylics and casein can accomplish!
Water Media Techniques: Acrylic and Casein
Acrylics and casein are both water-based paints, and have some similarities, but can be used very differently, alone or in conjunction. Stephen Quiller demonstrates how both media can be used to create transparent and opaque washes, Impasto textures, and other special effects. He travels to one of his favorite locations to create a preliminary painting, and later returns to the studio to complete a beautifully simple work using acrylics and casein to “make the painting sing.”
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60 Min.
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DVD - Acrylic - Painting Wildlife in Acrylic by Terry Isaac
Learn how to paint with acrylics with Terry Isaac
In this acrylic painting DVD, wildlife artist Terry Isaac teaches you to tackle nature one square at a time. Painting Wildlife in Acrylic offers complete tools for nature painters and original methods for working with acrylic. To expand your artist’s toolset, learn how to paint nature scenes with realism and life using acrylics.
Painting Wildlife in Acrylic
Wildlife painter, Terry Isaac, shares photos, collages, sketches and many stunning finished works from his portfolio to illustrate the method he uses to formulate dynamic environmentally correct “magical moments” in nature. He provides several options for acquiring, selecting, and combining source material then implements them in the workshop painting. After a whirlwind tour of how to prepare his favorite painting surface, Terry discusses pigments and brushes and how he prepares his palette for the workshop.
Terry teaches you to tackle nature scenes one square at a time. He shares his efficient and innovative processes for blocking in shapes and colors. He teaches you to divide your canvas and reference material, allowing you to paint what you see instead of worrying about the complexity of the whole. With his basic shapes in place, Terry explains how to critique your first draft, make revisions and add a first layer of delicate details.
Terry then shifts his attention to the Rufus hummingbird at the top of his canvas. He transfers the bird from photo to sketch to canvas before your eyes then gives tips on realistic lighting, perspective and anatomy. Finally, Terry adds highlights to the entire painting and makes final revisions to his design, resulting in a bold, colorful wildlife scene.
As a bonus to the workshop painting, Terry explores composition and teaches techniques for filling in grasses and shorelines on a painting already in progress.
This workshop offers complete tools for nature painters and demonstrates his original methods for working with acrylic. To expand your artist’s toolset, join Terry Isaac for Wildlife Painting in Acrylic.
60 min.
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DVD-Acrylic Landscapes, The Watercolor Way with Charles Harrington
Charles Harrington AWS DF, ISAP draws on the best features of both acrylic and watercolor in his acrylic landscape painting workshop. He achieves the subtle color shifts and luminous transparency of watercolor while attaining the durability of acrylic. He also introduces tools and techniques perfected over years as an architect.
At home in the Ozarks, Charles introduces his portable plein air kit and paints a study that will serve as his reference in the studio. Back indoors, Charles works in the watercolorist’s style. He uses light preliminary washes and thin layers of pigment, allowing him to vary colors at every stage. Charles modifies his larger painting from his original plein air reference to achieve stronger design and value balance.
Charles also harnesses acrylics’ unique ability to layer opaque, translucent and transparent passages harmoniously. He mixes sparingly on his palette and heavily on the paper to create complicated blends and avoid flat, dull grays. He uses a spray bottle, splattering and active brushwork to break up large shapes and create lifelike texture.
To find an alternative to watercolor or capitalize on the unique advantages of acrylics, join Charles Harrington in Acrylic Landscapes the Watercolor Way.
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DVD - Acrylic - Acrylic Abstract Painting: The Evolving Image, Virginia Cobb
This workshop is about daring, trust, and a willingness to fail in the pursuit of learning and artistic growth. Join Virginia Cobb as she demonstrates her process as she creates three abstracts, selecting among the maze of options that highlight different design elements.
Acrylic Abstract Painting: The Evolving Image
Virginia Cobb develops three abstract paintings, each started by emphasizing a different design element: line, shape, texture. In the first half of her process she builds a rich under structure. She creates, destroys, and creates again unpredictable shapes, textures and color combinations. In doing so she establishes multiple layers of depth and mystery. Her final process is a rational analysis that evaluates color temperature, edges, shapes and balance. She applies the concepts of linkage, depth, rhythm and harmony to an amazing result. In the process, you see Virginia's bold and inventive handling of the medium while ‘listening in’ on her thought process and self talk as she works her way through a maze of options. Her daring solutions reflect a lifetime of experimentation and experience. The result is three very different paintings that have in common strength, beauty and mystery.
Virginia's painting process is open ended and designed for artistic growth. She intentionally creates 'problems', in part to challenge herself to rise to a higher creative lever in pursuit of elegant design solutions. She continually pushes the envelope.
Although you see plenty of wonderful techniques and virtuoso handling of the medium, the main thrust of this workshop is about daring, trust, and a willingness to fail in the pursuit of learning and artistic growth. The DVD includes a 37 minute interview.
105 min. video plus 37 min. interview, Appropriate for all skill levels, DVD Only, Virginia Cobb
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