Watercolor painting videos
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DVD - The You Factor: Powerful, Personal Design in Opaque Watercolor with Donna Zagotta
Discover the most interesting elements from your source material as you mold shapes and relationships to fit your unique vision. Donna Zagotta’s inquisitive approach to design helps you create powerful compositions that say as much about you as they do about your subjects.
Zagotta breaks her process into manageable steps and approaches design challenges one at a time. With her design firmly established, she is free to focus on her extended painting process. She concentrates on setting up color relationships and establishing a light pattern.
Zagotta mixes an extensive watercolor palette with white gouache. The opaque paints free her to make corrections and solve design problems at any moment and achieve a complex layered effect. Donna develops color, shape, and value relationships until the painting passes her ultimate test: you know it’s right when you love it!
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DVD - Animal Portraits in Watermedia with Pat Weaver
Capture your pet’s personality with watermedia artist Pat Weaver, FWS. Pat’s direct painting approach and limited palette help you strip away distractions and work fast on fur, whiskers, feathers, and other eye-catching textures. In this workshop you’ll complete five watercolor and acrylic paintings on a variety of surfaces, so you’re sure to find the right combination for all your favorite animals.
Pat emphasizes shape relationships as she draws from photographs. Whether she uses dot-to-line sketching or a direct approach, you’ll have clear views of her reference material throughout the workshop. She makes the most of her limited palette by carefully managing moisture. You’ll learn to control value by balancing fresh pigment and water, and Pat’s color-mixing shortcuts help you create anything from bright red to black in seconds.
Pat simplifies animal painting with judicious brushwork. You’ll create convincing fur without painting individual strands, and you’ll layer color to allow glowing hints of your underpainting to peek through. This workshop will teach you to see your pets in a new light!
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DVD - Watercolor Simplified with Pat Weaver
Watercolor paintings are some of the most lively, fresh, and versatile representations of real life scenes and human subjects.
If you’ve been painting with watercolors for some time, but feel that your skill set could benefit from fresh perspectives and techniques, this art instructional video featuring artist and teacher Pat Weaver might be the boost that you need.
This DVD art workshop introduces beginning and intermediate artists to the basic fundamentals of watercolor technique. With her direct, spontaneous approach, Weaver demonstrates how to draw and paint simply and successfully in watercolor.
Students will enjoy her demonstrations of painting different compositions, including a lone figure sitting on some steps and a colorful selection of vegetables. Learn Weaver’s signature techniques for painting vibrant scenes with a limited color palette, and mixing colors on the page to achieve more realistic shading and contours.
Whether you’re just starting to work with watercolor paints, or you’re looking for new perspectives to help you improve your current techniques, this watercolor painting workshop will give you the knowledge and confidence you need to take your craft to the next level.
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DVD - Painting a Personal Reality in Watercolor with Radindra Das
Ratindra Das AWS, NWS TWSA has one overriding rule: Don’t make a boring painting. By permitting himself to adhere to his own aesthetic, Das gives us a wonderful example of how to shake off old habits and listen to our muse. He begins with a value/shape drawing already much changed from his reference photo, then proceeds to design the painting as a whole.
His strong design sense and willingness to question common expectations permit new freedom and individuality in watercolor. Das uses unconventional flat shapes, manipulates the visual path and mixes vibrant colors directly on the watercolor paper to recreate his visceral experience of a bustling harbor scene. The result is fresh, vibrant, energetic, unique and certainly not boring!
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DVD - The Watercolor Portrait with Jane Angelhart
Many new and intermediate artists agree that painting faces, especially children, in an accurate fashion is one of the hardest tasks with which they could be faced. Although faces and body shapes seem simply on the surface, they are delicately curved and composed of a plethora of color, and without proper technique novice paintings can seem flat and cartoon like.
In this watercolor painting video with master portrait painter Jane Anglehart, students are provided with a rare opportunity to learn professional secrets for letting colors and faces bloom from the page.
This watercolor instruction DVD starts out with a discussion of painting as a luscious experience, something Angelhart likens to “applying colored butter to a canvas.” Students will benefit from Angelhart’s instruction about how to paint a portrait with multiple luminous layers, without dissolving previous layers or muddying the color.
The workshop progresses with many helpful tips and strategies for simplifying the portrait painting process. Students learn about how to enlarge reference material on a computer screen for greater understanding, information and improved painting, and how to let the vibrant transparent colors grow and bloom in unexpected directions.
To facilitate full understanding of the watercolor painting concepts discussed, this art instruction DVD is divided into four chapters: the introduction and gallery; the main project; materials; and helpful exercises she recommends as a warm up to painting.
Students of all levels will benefit from Angelhart’s calm comforting style, easy to follow instruction, and encouraging advice. If you’ve been afraid to really put the vibrancy of watercolors to the test in the portrait genre, this is the workshop for you.
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DVD - Designing for Content: Yupo Master Class with George James
Gain insight and skill on using watercolor on Yupo paper with George James in this Master Class instructional DVD, Watercolor & Yupo — Designing for Content. This art instruction video for intermediate to advanced artists is packed with bonuses.
George James covers a range of topics, including what makes a painting an artistic expression; art as communication; creating mystery with darks; design considerations for communicating your personal statement or metaphor into your art; and numerous YUPO painting techniques you can apply to your work. This video will help take your painting to the next level.
Bonus Chapters (72 min.) include:
* Zones
* The Grid
* Point of View
* Exchange
* Linking
* Drawing with Shapes
* Schematic Drawing
* Acrylics on Yupo
* George James Gallery
* George James Book
About the Master's Series
Workshops are chosen to be part of the MASTER'S SERIES based on their exceptionally high design and thinking content. While providing a more in-depth view of technique, it also provides the instructor an opportunity to share the foundation of thought upon which their style and content are built. Technique still plays an important role, but it is no longer the “stand alone” dominant aspect of the workshop. MASTER'S SERIES workshops provide students the opportunity to understand the design, thought and feeling that goes into making a successful piece of art.
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DVD - Design with the Figure with Polly Hammett
Learn Polly Hammett’s multifaceted design approach to help encourage your unique expression. Polly teaches a step by step method to analyze your composition before it is painted. Learn how to: interact with models; contour draw; figure placement and its impact on the meaning of your painting; how to develop a background; how to manipulate dark and light patterns to achieve a strong visual statement; lifting lights; adding texture; exaggeration; distortion; the importance of transitions; and stamping. Polly shares insights on subjects integral to being an artist including how to most benefit from critique groups. Polly’s approach to design is applicable to any subject.
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DVD - Bold & Beautiful: Backyard Wildlife in Watercolor by Susan Bourdet
Wildlife painter and print artist Susan Bourdet develops her painting from concept to signature.
She demonstrates:
• tips on photographing wildlife
• how to create luminous wet-into-wet backgrounds
• dry brush weathered wood
• knot holes and nails
• use of gouache to add sunlit sparkle
• spattering •
how to achieve depth while maintaining the illusion of soft feathering
• and a cascade of delicate vibrant flowers.
This DVD compresses an extended process into 75 information-packed minutes with short cuts, product tips and safe guards.
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DVD - Inspiration From the Garden in Watercolor with Susan Bourdet
Learn from nature painter and print artist Susan Bourdet to create a painting from resources you have at home. You’ll see how to select and combine photographs, use masking fluid successfully, render luminous wet-into-wet backgrounds, layer brush work to create convincing fur texture, and use dry brush and salt texturing to portray the corroding metal of an old watering can. You will learn to systematically tackle complicated natural settings for charming results.
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DVD - Flowing Florals: The Informed, Intuitive Approach with Robbie Laird
Robbie Laird’s DVD workshop teaches you the few simple preparations that make all the difference when painting. She gets you started with a her logical organization of pigments on the palette that is based on important color mixing theory. She then uses a sketch from her sketch book, a few reference photos for color and begins the “dance”. You learn the fun of the wet-into-wet technique. Robbie shows you how to double load your brush for smooth blending. She encourages the exciting fluid richness of saturated color then re-enters the painting to manipulate edge quality, enhance colors, lift areas, scrape lines and create seamless transitions. To add gesture and accent color, Robbie includes Caran D’Ache (pastel) to the painting. It’s fun, fluid and fast!
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DVD - Seascapes in Watercolour with E. John Robinson
Artists have been fascinated with the dynamic, majestic appearance of the sea for centuries. If you’ve been hesitant about tackling this intricate landscape in your own watercolor painting, this workshop with E. John Robinson could be just the thing that you need to take your abilities to the next level.
This two-hour watercolor workshop DVD is divided into two convenient parts so that you can develop a strong foundation for creating seascapes, regardless of whether you live near the ocean or in a landlocked country.
Robinson begins Part 1 of this workshop with an essential discussion of the techniques and tools needed to paint any watercolor seascape with ease. Students will receive detailed instruction on the anatomy of waves and portraying the emotion in all of its many moods.
Robinson incorporate diagrams and practice exercises to help the student fully understand the process, which he executes using a limited palette, rough 300 pound Arches watercolor paper and just two brushes.
Part 2 of this art instruction workshop continues by providing students with various techniques for capturing the roaring surf including methods of realistically depicting water, foam, and spray.
During the full step-by-step demonstration that follows, students will have the opportunity to work alongside Robinson as he divides a rocky shoreline scene into manageable independent units. You’ll learn how to paint specific types of water: puddles, creeks, rivers, waterfalls, lakes and ponds, harbors, and the surf, unleashing unlimited artistic possibilities.
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