Paul concentrates on adding mood & atmosphere to your paintings. Through various evocative countryside scenes Paul shows how by using wet in wet washes & through adding strong tones to your paintings you can create depth & feeling to your images. By following Paul's friendly tips & advice, you will soon be creating your own masterpiece. DVD: 68mins Please note this DVD title is only available in PAL format & therefore is unlikely to play in North America, Japan, South Korea & some of the Pacific Islands. However, all DVDs will play on personal computers & laptops. Subject: 6 Subject: 2 Medium: 1 Author: Paul Talbot-Greaves Tape Length: 68 mins ...

Paul's unique style of watercolour painting has a fresh vitality. His images are imbued with an exquisite play of light & shade that draw you in to every scene. In this easy to follow DVD, Paul explains how to make the most of these elements of tone, colour & shade in your paintings, demonstrating his techniques in simple, step-by-step studies that will bring your paintings out of the 2D & leaping into life! He explains how by clever use of just one single colour you can lift a painting that could otherwise look extremely flat. This book & DVD set is Paul Talbot-Greaves' guide to making the most of tone, colour, shadow & various other painting techniques. Make the most of your paintings with Paul as your guide. Book: A5. Paperback. 24 pages. Colour throughout DVD: 68 mins Please note this DVD title is only available in PAL format & therefore is unlikely to play in North America, Japan, South Korea & some of the Pacific Islands. However, all DVDs will play on personal computers & laptops. Author: Paul Talbot-Greaves Tape Length: 61 mins Medium: 1 ...

Paul's unique style embraces the vitality that watercolours can bring to a painting. He concentrates on light & shade & 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 & 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 this DVD title is only available in PAL format & therefore is unlikely to play in North America, Japan, South Korea & some of the Pacific Islands. However, all DVDs will play on personal computers & laptops. Author: Paul Talbot-Greaves Tape Length: 61 mins ...

Create your own colour wheel with this NEW practical, hands-on tool, for teaching painting, colour mixing & colour relationships. Ideal for both beginners & professional artists, this simple wheel can be used for your favourite medium & comes with complete painting instructions, definitions of commonly used terms, important concepts for painting & examples of colour harmonies. ...

Part 1 Keith demonstrates how to achieve atmospheric skies to bring life to your painting. Also featured are techniques on how to paint difficult backgrounds & fast flowing water. Using the Scottish highlands as a subject, Keith unfolds the methods used to create a wonderful picture that can be easily perfected. Part 2 Concentrating on the finer details of painting, Keith demonstrates how to use masking fluid to its best effect & also how to paint beach scenes. Keith shows how to achieve realistic trees, describing the brush strokes required for a perfect painting. This enlightening DVD has an easy-to-follow format that will leave you eager to start painting. DVD: 124 mins Please note this DVD title is only available in PAL format & therefore is unlikely to play in North America, Japan, South Korea & some of the Pacific Islands. However, all DVDs will play on personal computers & laptops. Medium: 1 Author: Keith Fenwick Tape Length: 124 mins ...

Richard has a great love & awareness of the landscape & the effects of light & weather. In this film, his inspiration comes from the coastline around his home in Dorset. Working outdoors with a small pochade, he draws & paints small studies in & around the harbour at Lyme Regis, the shore at Charmouth & 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 ...

Coloured pencils are an ideal medium for depicting flowers as they can produce very fine lines & offer plenty of opportunities for shading & tints. This easy-to-follow guide by the rightly popular author Gary Greene features 64 demonstrations of 54 different flower types, from Azaleas to Zinnias. Although the book originates in the US, hardly any of the varieties will be unfamiliar & you'll find daffodils, foxgloves & roses as well as begonias, fuchsias & rhododendrons. Each demonstration occupies no more than a single spread (and sometimes a single page) &

Includes:: a full colour palette as well as a list of the stages to completion. Whilst this is not the full step-by-step process, it makes the book straightforward to use & the illustrations are all well-annotated so that you can see exactly what's going on where. Gary also

Includes:: introductory chapters on the different types of pencil available & their colour ranges as well as details of techniques including layering, burnishing & underpainting. All of this makes this book the perfect introduction to painting flowers in a rewarding & versatile medium. Author: Gary Greene ISBN: 9781440311451



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The combination of the boldness of pen & ink, the subtle qualities of watercolour & the creation of texture are only as limited as your imagination. Part 1 Follow Claudia as she expertly demonstrates a range of textural techniques such as contour lines in a smooth onion, a manor house in the background with parallel lines, jagged & smooth rocks with cross-hatching, a velvety African violet with stippling & hot chilly peppers with a scribbly line. You'll understand the bold contrast of light against dark tones, before the entire pen & ink skills are brought together in a dramatic seascape with watercolour. Part 2 You'll add even more great textural techniques to your existing knowledge. You'll learn how to create criss-cross lines for soft fur, wavy lines that imitate wood grain, how sand can be added to paint to help create rust & even how a kitchen sponge can be used to make a pebbly beach. Brush techniques are introduced, such as dancing a brush over the sky to create clouds & for a grand finale, Claudia combines all of the techniques learnt in the two videos into a beautiful painting of a soft & gentle cat. The techniques are simple, but it does take time to create texture. You'll need plenty of practice, patience & perseverance, but the results are definitely worth it! DVD: 143 mins Please note this DVD title is only available in PAL format & therefore is unlikely to play in North America, Japan, South Korea & some of the Pacific Islands. However, all DVDs will play on personal computers & laptops. Medium: 14 Author: Claudia Nice Tape Length: 143 mins ...

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Capture nature's beauty as you never have before. Beloved artist & teacher Claudia Nice leads you on an inspired journey through the great outdoors. With paints in h&, she shares with you her best techniques for creating landscapes that come alive with richness, depth & textural detail. Open this guide & start painting right away. As you follow engaging, step by step demonstrations & excercises, you'll learn to recreate the textural elements of a range of terrains & landscapes. Chapters inlcude: - Creative Clouds & Skies - Majestic Mountains, Hills & Mesas - Texturing Trees, Trunks & Foliage - Rugged Rocks & Gritty Gravel - Transparent Textiles for Rivers, Falls & Lakes - Flowers of the Field In a special section, Claudia covers basic texturing techniques with mini demos using lines, dots bruising, scribbling, spattering, blotting, printing, stamping & more. From paints & pens to sponges, leaves & facial tissue, you'll explore all kinds of fun & inventive ways to create amazing textures. To help you put it all together, Claudia

Includes:: her masterful advice for creating compositions using reference photos, field sketches & your own creative license. Each demonstration features a large image of the completed landscape, so you can see exactly how Claudia's methods work- from start to finish. North Light
- Hardback
- 144 Pages
- Colour Throughout Author: Claudia Nice ISBN: 9781581809275




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