Watercolor Painting Videos
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Painting Roses in Crystal by Jan Kunz
Learn to Paint in Watercolor with Jan Kunz
Learn how to paint floral watercolor paintings that glow from the woman who wrote the book on the subject! Jan Kunz, author of Painting Florals That Glow and Painting Beautiful Watercolors from Photographs, shares her knowledge about use of light and color, including her own color wheel.
Painting Roses in Crystal
Paint along with Jan Kunz as she demonstrates how to create the illusion of sunlight flooding through a crystal vase filled with old fashioned roses. Learn to suggest translucent petals, use reflected light for brilliance and glow, and other ways to perfect your floral painting. Supplemental study materials, including a reference photo, Jan's drawing, printed instructions, a color chart, and a print of the final painting are available for free download from the Creative Catalyst Productions web site.
More watercolor lessons with Jan Kunz are available in three companion watercolor instruction videos from Creative Catalyst Productions: Getting Started Right in Watercolor, Watercolor Portrait Painting: Female, and Painting Watercolor Portraits: A Simple Approach From Photo to Finish.
69 min.
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DVD - Watercolor - Painting Watercolor Portraits: A Simple Approach From Photo to Finish by Jan Kunz
Learn to Paint in Watercolor with Jan Kunz
In this watercolor instruction video, artist and author Jan Kunz shows you how to use a photograph to paint a child's portrait in watercolor. Learn tips and shortcuts for your watercolor painting from master watercolorist Jan Kunz, author of Painting Beautiful Watercolors from Photographs and Painting Florals That Glow.
Painting Watercolor Portraits: A Simple Approach From Photo to Finish
Jan Kunz shows you every tip and shortcut she has to help you get a portrait you can be proud of. Jan starts with an information-rich photograph, and demonstrates all the steps you'll need for success: drawing and sculpting facial planes to help ensure a likeness; use of photocopies to access value patterns; getting your value shifts right, using Jan's "40 % rule"; choosing color mixtures for skin; painting a mouth and teeth that look right; placing the final crevice darks to bring your painting to life; and integrating the whole painting with background colors. This workshop will save any painter years of trial and error with a difficult subject.
More watercolor lessons with Jan Kunz are available in three companion watercolor instruction videos from Creative Catalyst Productions: Getting Started Right in Watercolor, Watercolor Portrait Painting: Female, and Painting Roses in Crystal.
80 min.
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Watercolor - Watercolor Portrait Painting: Female by Jan Kunz
Learn to Paint in Watercolor with Jan Kunz
Join artist Jan Kunz, author of Painting Beautiful Watercolors from Photographs and Painting Florals That Glow, to learn how to paint so that your paintings will glow. This step by step watercolor painting video workshop will become a favorite whether you skills are beginning or advanced.
Watercolor Portrait Painting: Female
Paint along with Jan Kunz as she demonstrates the five steps to creating vibrant, life-like watercolor portraits. Learn how she selects a model, achieves correct proportions in a reference drawing, determines hue and value for skin tones, and uses tricks for bold rendering of hair. Jan provides enough information to keep serious painters occupied for years! Full-color worksheets, steps to completion, Jan's drawing, a pigment analysis chart, and a color/pigment wheel are available on the CCP web site as a free download.
More watercolor lessons with Jan Kunz are available in three companion watercolor instruction videos from Creative Catalyst Productions: Getting Started Right in Watercolor, Painting Roses in Crystal, and Painting Watercolor Portraits: A Simple Approach From Photo to Finish.
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Watercolor - Getting Started Right in Watercolor by Jan Kunz
Learn to Paint in Watercolor with Jan Kunz
Let popular workshop instructor and author Jan Kunz help you get a head start in watercolor. In this beginning level watercolor instruction video, you will learn watercolor painting techniques ranging from basic washes to how to paint dew drops. Jan guides you step by step in learning how to paint with flair.
Getting Started Right in Watercolor
Jan Kunz is well-known as a master watercolorist and author of Painting Beautiful Watercolors from Photographs and Painting Florals That Glow. Learn about brushes, watercolor papers, setting up a palette, and brush techniques from basic washes to negative painting. See how to soften edges, prevent run backs, and reduce complicated areas to paintable passages. Get tips on corrective measures, how to lift whites, paint dew drops and wood grain, and much more. Two painting exercises are included: One for the beginner and one for the more advanced beginning painter. Additional printed material available free on the CCP web site.
More watercolor lessons with Jan Kunz are available in three companion watercolor instruction videos from Creative Catalyst Productions: Watercolor Portrait Painting: Female, Painting Roses in Crystal, and Painting Watercolor Portraits: A Simple Approach From Photo to Finish.
65 min.
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Watercolor - Tuscan Textures: Rich Textures Using Salt by Judy Morris
Learn to Paint in Watercolor with Judy Morris
Judy Morris shows you an exciting new tool for your painting toolbox to help you achieve amazingly rich textures using salt. This art instruction video DVD is suited for all watercolor artists — beginning to advanced.
Tuscan Textures: Rich Textures Using Salt
In this art instruction video workshop you will see precisely how to choose the right colors and salts and how to increase your watercolor versatility with the subtle differences achieved by combining opaques, transparents, and stains. Get a close-up view as Judy breaks a few "rules" as she applies salt, changes in color, 'tweaks' it after it dries and finishes with an opaque glazing to make an everyday wall into an inviting subject for any watercolorist.
75 min.
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Watercolor - Build Design & Color Using a Mouth Atomizer by Mark Mehaffey
Drawing and Watercolor Instruction Video with Mark Mehaffey
Learn to paint with watercolor using a mouth atomizer. Expert watercolorist Mark Mehaffey shows you how in this watercolor instruction DVD. You will learn many simple ways to improve your watercolor painting, by using the simple, inexpensive tool called a mouth atomizer.
Build Design & Color Using a Mouth Atomizer
Be inspired to try something new as Mark Mehaffey demonstrates a way for creating smooth transitions in large areas, rich darks and sparkling lights with a simple, inexpensive tool: the mouth atomizer. You'll get new ideas about: effective uses of your sketch book; choosing resource materials; manipulating color and value for color "bounce" that gives life to a painting; manipulating design elements to establish a focal area and create a path for the viewer's eye.
Artists tell us they have created successful paintings the first time using Mark's ideas from this workshop. Whether you use the atomizer or not, this video will give you new creative ways to approach your own design challenges.
100 mins.
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Watercolor - Painting a Dramatic Landscape in Watercolor by Mark Mehaffey
Learn to Paint in Watercolor with Mark Mehaffey
Learn how to paint a dramatic landscape with Mark Mehaffey in this wonderful watercolor instruction DVD. You will learn many important tips on painting, and learn how to paint dramatic scenes with a limited palette.
Painting a Dramatic Landscape in Watercolor
Mark Mehaffey teaches you how to plan and how to paint a dramatic landscape by using a few strong shapes, bold color and a limited palette. The scene, a high mountain lake in the Grand Tetons, incorporates the glowing colors of a setting sun reflected on water.
Mark shows you important tips on controlling moisture in your brush for successful wet into wet painting, how to get variety with a limited color palette, the role of silhouette and scale in landscapes, and the importance of a value sketch. In a few hours even a beginner will achieve drama in their landscape watercolors.
90 min.
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Watercolor - Carl Dalio on Color Power: The Path to Visualizing Energetic Color
Learn to Paint with Carl Dalio
In this Creative Catalyst Watercolor DVD workshop Carl Dalio's bold use of color is freeing to say the least! In this watercolor video watch Carl take a flat street scene and turn it into a colorful, energetic environment using lush color and active brush work.
Carl Dalio on Color Power: The Path to Visualizing Energetic Color
Carl Dalio explains the different types of light and where to anticipate areas perfect for adding vibrancy. Carl gives a brief explanation of perspective, explains the strengths of his limited palette and executes a quick sketch directly on his watercolor paper. He paints the scene in a logical yet free manner including simple figures.
You learn how to keep your colors clean and vibrant as you make your own painting full of life and energy. In addition, the watercolor workshop includes a special half hour in-depth explanation of color and light and how the proper blending of color can make the difference of night and day in your painting.
140 min.
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DVD - Watercolor - Sketching in Perspective - Drawing & Composition by Carl Dalio
If you've ever had trouble with perspective, this is the video workshop for you! Watercolorist Carl Dalio, NWS, AWS, presents eight watercolor lessons on perspective and composition, each featuring an easy-to-follow exercise.
Sketching in Perspective - Drawing and Composition
Carl Dalio establishes the basic principles with a sketch of a country house. He explains how to recognize vanishing points, a skill that forms the foundation for the rest of the workshop. He then demonstrates one, two and three-point perspective, illustrating the advantages and pitfalls of each. Using a simple, one-story building, he establishes a system that can be used for equal spacing of any set of objects: fence posts, cars, clouds or people.
Carl next demonstrates how to draw proportional figures from eye-level and an elevated vantage point. He introduces time-saving methods for populating landscapes and applies his techniques to larger landscapes. Carl concludes with principles for composing sketches for paintings. He selects intriguing shapes from his reference material, determines dominant values, and edits major elements to suit his design sensibilities.
This video includes bonus features on painting figures in landscape and selecting colors.
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DVD - Watercolor - A Designed Approach to Abstraction by John Salminen
Join JOHN SALMINEN (AWS DF, NWS) in this Master Class Watercolor instruction video, as he uses the language of design to build a complex layered abstraction. The design analysis and thinking he uses may be applied to all media and is appropriate for artists at all skill levels. See John's skillful use of a mouth atomizer, and other tools.
John Salminen begins with simple objects as a springboard to suggest shapes and line. He then launches on a sequence of steps to create intriguing and unpredictable effects all the while using design principles to create a cohesive captivating painting. He floods in warm tones, dry brush blending, scrapes in darks, and masks lines. He creates a variety of line and edge qualities, careful to always add to the whole.
John explains the rationale for each step. He capitalizes on the strengths of watercolor: delicate and subtle middle values. He verbalizes his composition and problem solving strategies and uses the design principles of dominance, texture, linkage, and repetition to bring unity to the painting. John Salminen uses a variety of techniques to create interest: salt, dry brush blending, splattering, mouth atomizer, collage, and acrylics. (2 hr, 40 min)
MATERIALS: Some of the materials used in this video are: tracing paper, drawing paper, black & red felt pens, 140# cold press arches watercolor paper, masking tape, acrylic paint, a variety of watercolor paint, 3” and 1” flat brush, salt, and mouth atomizer.
160 min.
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