Watercolor Painting Videos
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DVD - Watercolor in Action: Responding to Nature with Gerald Brommer
Watercolor painters have been inspired by nature for centuries, but venturing outside the studio to compose a painting can be overwhelming for beginner and intermediate students of the medium.
In this watercolor instruction video, master artist and teacher Gerald Brommer invites you to accompany him to a spot on the coastline, and walks you through the process of choosing a subject, and responding to the drama and emotion of nature.
This watercolor painting workshop begins with the task of choosing a subject for the nature painting. Brommer takes his time while looking around a particular site on the coast, and finally chooses a lighthouse in the distance as the subject of his watercolor demonstration painting.
Brommer discusses the importance of attuning one’s self to the nature setting before beginning a painting. Students will learn how to absorb the color, texture, and mood of the setting so that they can capture an accurate feeling of nature in their composition.
The workshop continues with an explanation of Brommer's process for making composition and construction decisions and selecting painting techniques to maneuver the elements into the right composition for the final watercolor painting.
As he makes decisions about what to include from the inspiring nature scene all around him, Brommer’s painting starts as a soft, pale implication of what’s to come. Then, Brommer demonstrates how adding layer upon layer of darks, warm and cool colors, and resonant detail, the artist creates a magnificent landscape. With suggestions on composition construction, color usage, contrast, transitions, and perspective, Brommer gives you a complete set of tools for capturing the spirit and nature of the place.
You’ll love watching Brommer’s painting come alive on the page, and will benefit greatly from his advice for adjusting the elements to make the scene compelling and creating a magnificent landscape of the lighthouse and rocky shore in the final painting.
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DVD - Watercolor and Collage with Gerald Brommer
One of the most exciting things about creating your own works of art is that you can experiment in new ways with artistic tools and materials. In this instructional video, you’ll be able to leap into the artistic journey alongside world renowned artist, educator, and author Gerald Brummer.
Best known for his adventurous experimentation with the combination of watercolors and collage, Brummer will offer helpful tips and encouragement for both beginning and advanced students throughout the course of this instructional DVD.
As the workshop begins, Brummer will offer important instruction about how to compost a work that will later become the basis for both watercolor and collage. Brummer admonishes his students to embrace the accidents and possibilities encouraged by his method of painting, and the texture and uniqueness that can be achieved when the two techniques are combined in a watercolor painting.
Artists that are new to this style of creation will receive clear, easy to follow instructions regarding the entire process of how to combine collage and integrate it in the water color painting process. Brummer’s explanatory demonstrations help the new student to develop perspective and release their inhibitions when composing.
First, Brummer reveals his step by step process for assembling, painting, and finishing a watercolor collage painting, including painting a base layer of color underneath, choosing and arranging the collage materials, painting over the collage, recollage, and then painting only until it’s finished, and when to know it’s time to stop.
Then, over the course of completing a mountain landscape painting, Brummer will use various Oriental papers and watercolor painting process to enhance the textures of the scene. You’ll see how this technique gives elements a three-dimensional quality even though they are created with watercolors.
Brummer helps students to see that the fun and challenge of this style of painting is that accidents can happen, but they can also be the best opportunities to create something magnificent.
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DVD - Exploring Watercolor from Location to Studio by Gerald Brommer
Do you love the idea of painting nature scenes on site, but find that it’s too overwhelming to choose a subject and avoid distraction once you’re finally there? In this watercolor painting video, master artist and teacher Gerald Brommer explains his time-tested techniques for capturing the drama and emotion in nature on the paper.
Brommer begins this watercolor instruction video with a demonstration of how to choose a natural location as he searches for inspiration for a seascape painting.
Students will enjoy his explanation of how to choose the scene, how to know the difference between essential and non-essential elements, and how to gather information from the landscape that will carry the watercolor painting through to completion.
After Brommer has extracted all the essential elements from the Monterey seascape, and gathered inspiration for the finished painting, he returns to his studio to revaluate his choices. Knowing how to edit both the reality of the scene, and the elements that capture your mind’s eye is essential for creating an uncluttered composition.
Brommer’s clear, patient style will help you to make decisions about how to convey the feeling, more than the reality, of a natural setting. Students will learn how to look for drama and relationships in a natural setting, and how to make the most creative use of space on the page.
Learn to emulate Brommer’s fluid process for establishing color, lights and darks, lines, overlap, clean rules of perspective to achieve a quality product.
With the help of this watercolor painting workshop, students of all levels will have no trouble moving from a simple and quiet beginning to the complex and compelling finished piece of nature art work.
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DVD - Imaging in Watercolor with Gerald Brommer
In this instructional art video, world renowned artist, author and educator Gerald Brommer will guide you through the steps of creating a stunning watercolor painting from only the memories and images in your head.
Most paintings begin with the artist sketching a scene with a reference photograph or live subject in front of them. Even landscape artists sometimes journey into the wild outdoors so that they can capture a breathtaking scene on canvas. But what about when there isn’t a photo or subject available?
Brommer begins the workshop by discussing his unique technique of visual imaging: a process that allows you to explore the scenes, buildings and people that have been embedded in your memory. Without the use of photographs or other paintings, Brommer teaches students of all levels to capture those memories and give them new life on the canvas.
Students will learn the importance of being able to work without a photo reference, which can often limit the creativity and vibrancy that you feel in the painting. Recalling images of places you’ve experienced allows you to paint with a freedom and passion that aren’t possible using any other technique.
Brommer reveals that the best way to get started in this process is to sketch anything and everything that can be recalled from a certain place or experience. These individual elements don’t have to be perfect, or organized in a particular way on the canvas. Brommer encourages students to sketch the people and things as they remember them, not as they actually were.
Once these elements are out of your head and on to the canvas, Brommer demonstrates his process for choosing the best sketches, and arranging them within the context of a larger painting.
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DVD - Creating Abstract Art with Gerald Brommer
Do you shudder every time someone mentions the term “abstract art”? Many beginning and intermediate painters assume that abstract art means difficult and more complex compositions, but as you’ll see in this watercolor instruction workshop, this doesn’t have to be the case.
In this watercolor painting video, master artist and teacher Gerald Brommer will reveal his most reliable techniques and methods for creating abstract art based on a photographic reference.
The workshop begins with a discussion of why and how to simplify the scene that you want to paint. Brommer demonstrates this extreme simplification technique by choosing a photograph of a lighthouse scene, and sketching it on watercolor paper. The original sketch is highly detailed and complicated, but as Brommer revises it several times, it slowly becomes a simpler collection of shapes that are just waiting to be filled in with color.
While Brommer is working on the lighthouse painting, he demonstrates four different methods for creating abstraction in a painting: simplification of shapes, distortion, overlapping and fractioning, and contour continuation.
Artists of all levels will benefit from this discussion of simplification techniques, and learn how to put them to work in their own paintings. Throughout the course of this art instruction video, Brommer uses clear examples to illustrate how and why design becomes more important than the subject in abstract art.
If you’ve been intimidated by complicated scenes in the past, and think that you’re not advanced enough to create beautiful paintings that evoke the memory of a person, place, or thing, Brommer’s advice and encouragement are just what you need to take your abilities to the next level.
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DVD - Mastering Watercolor Portraiture with Mary Whyte
Well known watercolorist Mary Whyte takes you inside her studio to paint a watercolor portrait from start to finish. You'll see firsthand the relationship Mary has with her models, why she chooses to paint portraits, why watercolor is the perfect medium, and how she creates works with emotions that capture the essence she's trying to convey.
With Mastering Watercolor Portraiture with Mary Whyte, you'll learn:
* - How to use a thumbnail sketch to get started and compose a strong composition with a focal point
* - How to paint the eyes and mouth, skin, hair, and clothes; and how to capture the character of your model
* - Tips and techniques for drawing and painting, painting multiple figures, creating a background for your painting, and more!
Plus, Mary gives inspirational advice on making your portrait an original piece of art while making your own mark as an artist. Mastering Watercolor Portraiture with Mary Whyte is sure to be a treasured DVD for all aspiring and practicing watercolorists.
Mary Whyte has earned a national reputation for her watercolor portraits. Recognized for her figurative paintings of the African-American women of Johns Island, South Carolina, where she lives, Whyte's work has been shown in numerous group and solo museum exhibitions. Whyte's art has been featured in several magazines, including American Artist and Watercolor, and can be viewed at Coleman Fine Art in Charleston, South Carolina, www.colemanfineart.com.
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DVD - Color for the Artist with Stephen Quiller
Mastering color theory and being able to create vibrant paintings with a limited palette are the specialty of master artist Stephen Quiller.
In this motivational art instruction video, both beginner and intermediate students will be introduced to the “Quiller Color Wheel,” Quiller’s own unique color selection tool that allows the artist to evoke any mood or feeling in their painting with a few strokes of the brush.
This workshop begins with a discussion of color theory and how the Quiller Color Wheel can be used to design successful color schemes and to plan a better palette. As the student becomes more comfortable with this tool, Quiller demonstrates how easy it can be to mix an endless range of hues.
One of the things that set Quiller’s Color Wheel apart from other similar tools that you may have seen is that it’s populated with common pigments and paint names, rather than generic hues. This allows the artist to easily notice and shop for the colors that are needed on a regular basis.
The lesson continues with instruction about how to mix missing colors, how to layer opaque colors over transparent colors, and how and why to mix your hues on the paper instead of on the palette. All of Quiller’s advice and expertise is accompanied by a series of examples and a demo painting of a snowy lakeshore.
Quiller also introduces his five basic color schemes; monochromatic, complementary, analogous, split-complementary, and triad, and techniques for utilizing each in your art. With this lesson, you’ll be better prepared to use both bold and muted colors to your advantage.
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DVD - Watermedia Techniques: Watercolor & Gouache with Stephen Quiller
Are you passionate about painting with watercolor, but want to learn new techniques that will expand your versatility in this medium? This instructional art video features internationally-known and watermedia specialist Stephen Quiller, and provides both new and intermediate artists with tips for incorporating gouache, or Italian waterpaint, into their watercolor paintings.
Gouache is different from traditional watercolor paint because the size of the pigment particles suspended in the water are much larger, and the ratio of pigment to water is much higher.
Throughout the course of this lesson, Quiller demonstrates how striking combinations of watercolor and gouache to heighten the color and texture of a mountain landscape. With his signature teaching style, Quiller explores the natural transition from transparent to opaque paints that this technique allows.
The video begins in the studio, where Quiller explores and demonstrates these depth and translucent quality of watercolor and gouache by using an array of application techniques. Then, he moves outside the studio to put these techniques to work while creating an on-site reference painting of a beaver pond.
After capturing this natural scene for inspiration, Quiller brings the canvas back inside the studio, and gets to work building a larger painting around it. Students of all levels will benefit from the demonstration of palette arrangement, color shifts that can occur while drying, lifting color, and how to use the white of the paper to create sparkle and luminosity.
Quiller rounds out the lesson with a discussion of flat and round brushwork, wet-on-wet painting, wet-on-dry/control wash, and dry-on-dry techniques that are essential when working with the delicate medium of watercolor and gouache.
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DVD - Painting Barns in Watercolor with Tony Couch
This instructional video, featuring professional artist, educator, and author Tony Couch, will expand your understanding of watercolor painting, and arm you with new techniques for visual storytelling.
The workshop begins with an introduction to Couch’s signature “juicy color” style, and walks you through the initial steps of a successful painting, including composition and design. Couch begins by showing students how to sketch a concise reference drawing of a barn and surrounding landscape, establishing the shapes and values that will form the foundation of the piece.
Couch continues the lesson by sharing his techniques for maintaining a consistent light source in your work, and using a variety of shapes and sizes to develop your scene. Students will enjoy his discussion of incorporating local interest, and bringing sufficient information with you into the studio, so that it’s possible to create a scene that’s accurate without becoming cluttered with details.
Slowly and patiently, Couch reveals his process for developing a painting, from wetting the paper to mixing pigments. He’ll also explain how to make color choices that will establish temperature and help you define the value center of the painting.
Couch will also share his unorthodox method of creating texture with a credit card, different ways to control and isolate the attention of the viewer, and the purpose of the wide variety of brushes that he uses in the painting.
Throughout the course of this lesson, Couch will impart essential tips and techniques for creating a scene that tells a story of time and place.
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DVD - Painting Streams, Rocks and Trees in Watercolor with Tony Couch
In this energetic art instruction video, accomplished watercolorist Tony Couch delivers an information-packed “how-to” lesson on three different subjects, all while working with the same tools and creating one demonstration painting.
Artists of all levels often struggle with the need to allow the work of creating a painting flow naturally from the brush. You can’t always control what happens when the bristles touch the page, so Couch gives you advice on how to accept “accidents” for the opportunities that they are.
As this watercolor DVD begins, Couch will offer up a useful lesson on how to effectively choose a subject, organize the basic composition of a painting, and complete a simple value drawing that will establish a foundational perspective around which the rest of the painting can be built.
Students will benefit from Couch’s simple discussion of how to simplify the subject matter, mix paint directly on the paper, and exploit the richness of watercolor. In his bold style, Couch will explain the importance of paying attention to light and dark, basic shapes, balance, contrast, and mid-values.
The lesson will also address design and color balance on damp paper, as well as the challenges that are presented by the shifting hue intensity as the watercolor pigments dry. Even though these unique characteristics might be frustrating for beginners, Couch will teach you how to achieve the composition and color that you want while still enjoying the painting process.
By the end of this video art lesson, you’ll have all the tools you need to create a beautiful watercolor landscape featuring rocks, trees, streams from a simple value drawing and be proud of the results.
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DVD - Portraits in Watercolor with Charles Reid
During this instructional video, master watercolorist Charles Reid will provide you with all the tips and techniques you need to start painting portraits in watercolors. Using his wife and daughter as subjects, Reid invites you to accompany him on the journey of creating a double portrait in his home studio.
This art instruction video will teach both beginner and intermediate students how to see, think, and work like a professional painter. You’ll receive instruction on how to blend shapes and colors from one of the pioneers of the juicy watercolor style. In his calm and quiet manner, Reid gives you a solid introduction into the key relationships that allow the artist to progress from simple shapes to a unique characterization of a portrait’s subjects.
Watch as Reid establishes the subjects’ pose and begins to sketch them, not as figures, but first as a unified shape. This video will help you to see the importance of thinking abstractly about your portrait, and free your mind so that the painting can grow organically on the canvas.
This video will give you a rare look into what influences Reid’s selection of color and how to choose colors for their own sake.
Reid encourages workshop participants not to restrict themselves only to what they see in front of them, but to instead use the models as inspiration for a painting that will speak for itself.
Reid provides endless instruction and advice throughout the course of the lesson, including technical advice on mixing color, softening edges, measuring space, and overcoming the special challenges of portrait painting.
If you’ve always wanted to be able to create watercolor paintings of your friends and loved ones, this instructional video will give you the confidence that you need to create portraits that will be treasured for years to come.
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DVD - Painting Flowers in Watercolour with Charles Reid
Fresh cut and wild flowers are a continual source of beauty in the life of an artist, yet many students find them frustrating or even intimidating to paint. Learn to create delicate, realistic floral arrangements this watercolor instruction video featuring Charles Reid.
Reid is best known for his uninhibited watercolor style, and teaches students of all levels to catch the light and breathe of a moment in time while allowing beautiful flowers to bloom on their canvas.
This workshop begins with a discussion of contour drawing that will provide students with the anchor from which to develop their entire composition. Reid then builds on this technique by providing a step-by-step demonstration of color mixing and tone.
Although many students think of water only as a means for applying pigment to the page and cleaning their brushes, Reid will demonstrate the important role that water plays in the development of a painting, and teaches students to manipulate the flow of water while they work.
In the second portion of this watercolor painting workshop, Reid will move on from the basics and into a discussion of capturing light and atmosphere in floral paintings. Students will benefit from Reid’s demonstrations of two still life portraits featuring flowers full of energy, spirit, and freshness.
After watching Reid demonstrate how to draw, color mix, use tonal values, incorporate brushwork, and arrange composition you too will be able to avoid overworking your scene, and create stunning, beautiful flowers.
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