DVD's

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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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

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Geoff Kersey lives and works in the Derbyshire Dales from where he gets much of his inspiration for his atmospheric watercolours.

His no nonsense, concise approach to teaching watercolour landscape painting has made him very popular as a tutor, allowing him to work all over the UK and further afield.

In this panoramic winter scene, Geoff will show you how to get a huge variety of tones and colours from a limited palette, plus how to use perspective to achieve distance.

There is also an excellent example of how to paint an atmospheric winter sky, plus tips on allowing the colours to mix on the paper and how to achieve the weathered look of the rustic farm buildings.

Learn how to contrast broad, loose brush strokes with finer, more detailed areas and the importance of contrasting warm and cool colours.


DVD: 75 mins

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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

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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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In this DVD, Deborah Secor shows you how to use light, photo references, nearby and distant shadows, linear perspective, sun hole shapes, shadow values, aerial perspective, semi-transparent shadows, colour recipes and more. You'll finish by completing a landscape painting using a reference photograph, defining colour layers and shadow edges.

DVD: 60 mins

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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

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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

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Join an array of leading artists as they reveal some of their best hints, tips and techniques!

To help you develop your painting and drawing skills 18 popular professional artists including Hazel Soan, Terry Harrison, Margaret Evans and Charles Reid will reveal some of their very best tips.

Throughout the DVD they will cover topics such as: landscapes, buildings, trees, flowers, waves, skies, animals, shadows and reflections as well as many sections on theory; from understanding the skeleton to getting the correct perspective in a landscape.

Whether you work in watercolours, pastels, oils or acrylics; you will benefit from the tips and advice throughout this DVD - as many of the techniques can be applied to any medium!

DVD: 100 mins

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

DVD: 20 Minutes

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In this easy to follow DVD Marion shows you how to paint a Winter and Summer landscape using Acrylics. She shows you how to mix the colours before taking you step-by-step through the different elements and how to use your artists tools to best effect.

Demonstrating a variety of techniques such as scumbling to create the illusion of distant trees to stippling the leaves onto the trees, Marion really makes it look simple.

DVD: 50 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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