Using diagrams, Karen shows how to draw flowers. She then guides you through the many different facets of flower painting, using watercolour. Indoor pot plants, a single bloom, an herbaceous border with delphiniums, and wild flowers in their natural habitat. She even paints in a bluebell wood.
DVD: 60 mins
Medium: 1
Author: Karen Simmons
Tape Length: 60 mins
Join Robert Wade as he searches for clues to help you produce better paintings in watercolour.
Working in his Melbourne studio, he investigates soft and hard edges, brushwork, water to paint ratio, drawing style, wet-in-wet and many other techniques. Using these clues he paints a variety of different subjects in the studio and in the beautiful scenery of the Mornington Peninsula.
DVD: 90 mins
Author: Robert Wade
Tape Length: 90 mins
David has a wonderful eye for choosing subjects. And here he concentrates on interiors. First, a forgotten corner of a barn with agricultural implements and streams of light through the door. He moves on to the busy interior of a boatyard. Finally, a slightly simpler subject: a farmyard with an old barn, trees and lots of atmosphere.
DVD: 60 mins
Medium: 1
Author: David Curtis
Tape Length: 60 mins
In this DVD, David Curtis travels from the pretty pastoral scenery of Yorkshire to the bustling cosmopolitan cities of London and Paris.
David shows you how to paint the beautiful rural countryside of his native Yorkshire in early spring as well as the vibrant city streets of London and Paris. Finally he travels back to his studio to paint a more considered watercolour using an oil painting as source material.
DVD: 90 mins
Tape Length: 90 mins
Author: David Curtis
David's unique approach to oil painting uniquely captures the mood and atmosphere of his subjects. Working in his native Yorkshire, he paints Staithes Harbour with boats moored in the river, a colourful beach scene and an autumnal view of bridge and stream, painted 'contre-jour'
DVD: 60 mins
Author: David Curtis
Tape Length: 60 mins
David Curtis shows you how to paint a variety of magical scenes in oils and paints a glorious day in the Peak District with the last of the winter snow still lying on the ground.
In early spring he travels to the spectacular scenery of Cinque Terre in Italy, five little villages built into the rocks between the sea and the steeply terraced hillsides, where he paints views of the busy streets and harbours with their brightly coloured houses and boats.
DVD: 90 mins
Tape Length: 90 mins
Author: David Curtis
In this DVD John teaches you how to paint some stunning acrylic paintings using a variety of tips and techniques. Painting on the Devon coast, John covers a wide variety of subject matter including the eerie marshland and waters of the river Otter and the Exe estuary with its surrounding landscape. Back in his studio he, produces a large painting of wild geese in the marshes, using sketches from his painting trip as source material.
DVD: 90 mins
Author: John Hammond
Tape Length: 90 mins
In the first DVD, Mountain Adventures in Watercolour, David is in his element. He sketches in the Lake District in the summer and the peaks of Snowdonia in winter. Against such dynamic scenery he paints and sketches bridges, streams, summer and winter trees, cottages and, of course, mountains.
The second DVD, Developing your Watercolours, takes you to mid-Wales. David shows you how to find the optimum viewpoint and takes on a wide variety of subjects.
2 DVDs: 90 & 60 mins
Medium: 15
Tape Length: 150 mins
Author: David Bellamy
This NEW DVD is a must have for all David Bellamy fans, or for anyone who wants to learn how to paint summer landscapes in watercolour.
Starting off in his studio David gives you some hints on colour mixing, before heading out to paint the English countryside. As well as showing how to tackle the preponderance of summer greens, he gives advice on painting trees in leaf, massed foliage and hedgerow plants, using colour to suggest distance.
David also covers many other aspects of painting the landscape in this brilliant DVD and finishes off with a lovely studio painting.
Author: David Bellamy
Tape Length: 90 mins
Join Mitch Waite in this complete course covering all areas of painting in acrylics in 180 minutes of expert tuition.
Follow Mitch as he works both in his art school and in the surrounding village streets, harbours and rural countryside. In part one he guides you through perspective, composition, tonal studies and colour mixing and in part two paints a variety of subjects to demonstrate the lessons from part one. This DVD is a must have for all Mitch Waite fans!
DVD: 180 mins
Author: Mitch Waite
Tape Length: 180 mins
Follow Margaret Evans as she explores the difference in light between France and Scotland using pastels.
Working in south west France, she paints boats along the Canal du Midi and a windmill and buildings in the surrounding countryside. Returning to her native Scotland, she takes her pastels to Glencoe and paints in the wonderful mountainous scenery on a sunny but breezy day.
Finally, in her studio, Margaret works on one of the Glencoe paintings and paints a complete painting from the watercolour sketch made on the Canal du Midi.
DVD: 90 mins
Author: Margaret Evans
Tape Length: 90 mins
Painting 'plein air', Herman mixes traditional impressionism with a strong emphasis on technique. The film takes us to London. First, beside the Thames near Tower Bridge. Then a view down Fleet Street, with the sunlight producing strong lights and darks. Finally, we travel west to the Cotswolds, where Herman paints two views of the English countryside in summer.
DVD: 90 mins
Author: Herman Pekel
Tape Length: 90 mins
Barry selects his subjects with care, showing you how to produce wonderfully atmospheric paintings. Working out of doors, he paints a building and meadow bathed in warm evening light and a panoramic view over the Quantocks on a hazy summer's day. In his studio, working from sketches, he paints a river at sunset on the flat landscape of the Somerset Levels and a dramatic view of Porlock Weir.
DVD: 60 mins
Author: Barry Watkin
Tape Length: 60 mins
Working in the wilds of Yorkshire, learn to paint in watercolour with David Bellamy as he draws and sketches waterfalls, bridges, barns and cottages in the wet, windswept dales.
David then travels to the French Pyrenees to paint the rugged scenery of the high mountain peaks covered in snow, ice?and even a few mountaineers.
This action-packed DVD is full of useful information and as always David manages to have a few adventures along the way!
DVD: 90 mins
Author: David Bellamy
Tape Length: 90 mins
In this DVD Australian pastel artist, Maxwell Wilks shows you how to work in brilliant colour and uses the pastel strokes rather than blending to achieve stunning results.
An exciting artist with a strong emotional response to the effects of light, colour, atmosphere and form, Maxwell demonstrates how to paint the north east coast of England at Whitby, selecting views around the harbour and the nearby Dales. He then returns to Australia where he shows us how he uses sketches to work up paintings in his studio.
DVD: 90 mins
Author: Maxwell Wilks
Tape Length: 90 mins
Learn how to paint striking watercolour paintings bathed in light and atmosphere in this excellent NEW DVD by John Yardley.
John paints in the garden of Worcester College in Oxford and an interesting view looking down Burford High Street. Back in his studio he then shows you how to produce two wonderful Oxford scenes. John also teaches you to paint flowers; a stunning painting of Japanese anemones in a glass vase.
Author: John Yardley
Tape Length: 90 mins
Richard has a great love and awareness of the landscape and the effects of light and weather. In this film, his inspiration comes from the coastline around his home in Dorset. Working outdoors with a small pochade, he draws and paints small studies in and around the harbour at Lyme Regis, the shore at Charmouth and on Eggardon Hill. Back at the studio, he uses much of this material to work up large canvases of Lyme Regis.
DVD: 120 mins
Medium: 1
Author: Richard Pikesley
Tape Length: 120 mins
Travel to the beautiful island of Mallorca in this great NEW DVD, with David Curtis as your guide as he shows you how to paint a range of breathtaking Spanish scenes in oils.
This DVD covers an array of exciting projects which include: some wonderful ramshackle buildings on Deia beach; a stunning view looking out across Valdemossa; an interesting building bathed in a sunlit garden or an everyday beach scene.
David will teach you how to paint with impact and achieve stunning results before returning to his studio, where he works up a studio painting of an old Spanish town centre.
Author: David Curtis
Tape Length: 90 mins
The first DVD, Coastal Adventures, is filmed along the stunning coastline of Pembrokeshire. David combines the basics of watercolour with techniques for more difficult subjects, like skies, boats, rocks, buildings and figures. Back in the studio, he paints two full paintings from sketches done in situ.
The second DVD, Travelling Adventures in Watercolour, takes you to the spectacular scenery of Andalusia in southern Spain.
2 DVDs: 2 x 60 mins
Medium: 15
Tape Length: 120 mins
Author: David Bellamy
For all those David Bellamy fans out there this DVD shows you how to capture mood, atmosphere and light into your paintings.
From the magic of Snowdonia, Pembrokeshire to the quaint country Cotswolds, David shows you how to paint a summer sunlit farm, a splashing mountain waterfall, a bridge, an early morning misty lake and a rocky cove. He then produces two finished paintings from these sketches, working in his studio.
DVD: 90 mins
Author: David Bellamy
Tape Length: 60 mins