DVD's

Please note: This is Part 2 (Planning & Proportion) only.

If you haven't got your copy then you mustn't miss out! Ronald Swanwick's Complete Drawing Course for Beginners is a series of four excellent DVD's, guaranteed to teach you everything you need to know about drawing all within the comfort of your own home!

This course will help you learn all about perspective and how to draw three dimensions on a two-dimensional surface plus the principles of eye level and vanishing points enabling you to draw streets and objects with ease. Discover the basics of planning & proportion and how to set up the framework of your picture, using your pencil as a measuring tool. You'll then look at the composition, where you will learn how to position your focal point on the page and how to observe and draw people. Teaching you the rules of tone and texture, Ronald demonstrates how to draw highlights within a glass, buildings which ooze character and a realistic looking otter bathing comfortably by the bank of a river.

Whether you're a beginner looking for a way to move forward or craving new ideas and inspiration, this course will have you creating drawings you can be proud of in no time at all!

DVD: 1 DVD

Please note that while this is a Region 0 DVD, it is PAL formatted and therefore unlikely to play in North America, Japan, South Korea and some of the Pacific Islands.

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Learn a great deal by following the tuition of Sue Deighton. Aimed at the watercolour painter, this is ideal for anyone who wishes to increase their knowledge and skill of colour mixing. But by the end of this you won't only know the theory, but you will also know how to put colour mixing into practice in your paintings.

Part 2
Moving on from the colours mixing in the first DVD, Sue looks at how to use those colours in three subjects, as well as how to create and use even more colours. Using three different landscapes and three methods of approaching the subject, including a garden scape, poppies in a landscape, and hay making scene, Sue teaches how to make the most from colour. By the end of this part of the workshop you will have an extended palette of 20 colours, but will understand that each painting you do will only need a handful of those colours.

DVD: 89mins

Please note that while this is a Region 0 DVD, it is PAL formatted and therefore unlikely to play in North America, Japan, South Korea and some of the Pacific Islands.

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First Steps with Pastel

Encouraging you to be a little playful, Jackie introduces you to pastels by taking you through a comprehensive range of techniques such as cross hatching, feathering, gradating colours, stippling and many more essentials for successful pastel paintings. Her enthusiastic manner and depth of knowledge will inspire you and build your confidence in this versatile medium.

Capturing Light & Colour

Light is one of the most difficult aspects to depict in a painting but it is one fo the most dramatic and attradtive. Jackie will show you how to paint light filled pictures and how to recognise tha impact light has on colours in nature. With lessons on colour theory and harmony, Jackie will have you producing pastel pictures like never before.

DVD: 130 mins

Please note that while this is a Region 0 DVD, it is PAL formatted and therefore unlikely to play in North America, Japan, South Korea and some of the Pacific Islands.

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Paul's unique style embraces the vitality that watercolours can bring to a painting.
He concentrates on light and shade and studies how to capture these effects through the use of tone.

Paul explains how by clever use of just one single colour you can lift a painting that could otherwise look extremely flat. Projects featured in the video include buildings, flowers and landscape scenes.

Throughout the DVD Paul uses easy-to-follow advice that can help bring your paintings to life. This DVD is suitable for any level of painter holding a desire to add depth of tone to their pictures.

DVD: 61 mins

Please note that while this is a Region 0 DVD, it is PAL formatted and therefore unlikely to play in North America, Japan, South Korea and some of the Pacific Islands.

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Learn how to paint in watercolour the mysterious landscape of Pike's Pool with its spectacular pike jutting out from the waters edge.

DVD: 20 Minutes

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Learn how to improve your negative space and counterchange with this excellent DVD from popular artist and teacher Trudy Friend.

Using elements from her eight basic brush strokes, Trudy shows you how to paint a pretty pot plant set in front of a rustic stone wall using watercolour.

Trudy begins by looking at the counterchange of the plant against its background and paints the leaves which form the dark against the light of the composition. She shows you how to give the painting a three dimensional feel by adding a variety of tone by building up dark areas and casts shadows on the pot plant to anchor it. Once finished, Trudy evaluates the painting and adds those final minute brush strokes to increase contrast and bring it completely to life.

This DVD is ideal for those who want to learn about tonal relationships between a form and its background and how negative space can form the basis of your positive composition.

DVD: 45 mins

Please note that while this is a Region 0 DVD, it is PAL formatted and therefore unlikely to play in North America, Japan, South Korea and some of the Pacific Islands.

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Let your imagination run wild as you learn to produce your very own vibrant animal paintings using mixed media in a loose impressionist style!

This DVD from the popular artist Marilyn Allis includes two fantastic projects for you to try in the comfort of your own home! In the first Marilyn demonstrates how to paint a colourful brood of chickens in watercolour, pastel and silver gouache. As she paints Marilyn explains how to create movement in the scene by adding texture, shadows and highlights.

In the second, Marilyn shows you how to bring a herd of elephants to life in hot, exotic colours, using watercolours and pastels. Marilyn encourages you to use your own creative license in each painting, helping you to produce some truly inspiring works of art!

DVD: 46 mins

Please note that while this is a Region 0 DVD, it is PAL formatted and therefore unlikely to play in North America, Japan, South Korea and some of the Pacific Islands.

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To Master Disasters will take a few bold and at times, drastic steps - but you can learn to turn your paintings around! No more wimpy watercolours! Susan shows you how to correct mistakes, beef up the colours, banish the boring and CURE YOUR PAINTINGS!

Sometimes, the hardest thing is to get a painting to where you're happy with the end result. You may have work that you are just not sure about and don't quite know how to proceed before it becomes a 'finished' painting.

Susan is here with the FIVE STEPS to cure your paintings. Showing you how to take one painting and build on it in different ways to make a real difference with the results!

DVD: 65 mins

Please note that while this is a Region 0 DVD, it is PAL formatted and therefore unlikely to play in North America, Japan, South Korea and some of the Pacific Islands.

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Capture the magnificent yellows and greens of a fresh spring day with Arnold Lowrey!

Let him show you how to flood the paper with spontaneous colour - giving life to the foliage - and bouncing it back with clever reflections in the waters of the stream.

Arnold is not afraid of colour,and with his guidance; you can paint your own version of this picture in a matter of minutes!

DVD: 20 mins

Please note that while this is a Region 0 DVD, it is PAL formatted and therefore unlikely to play in North America, Japan, South Korea and some of the Pacific Islands.

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Paint this vibrant scene of a canal bridge with its fascinating reflections swaying in the water below.

DVD: 20 Minutes

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Paint an old french barn door surrounded by weathered stonework draped in foilage.

DVD: 20 Minutes

Please note that while this is a Region 0 DVD, it is PAL formatted and therefore unlikely to play in North America, Japan, South Korea and some of the Pacific Islands.

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