Student Painting Video Series

by CrystalProductions

 

These 20-minute videos can be purchased individually or as a set. The novice will be able to use the whole set while the intermediate and advanced painters with knowledge in the basics of watercolor techniques and color may want the videos Composition, Experimental Water Media, and Visualizing What You Paint. SQ

 

 

Watercolor Methods This program introduces a variety of materials for watercolor including different types of papers, brushes, and tube and pan pigments. Demonstrations with these materials explore wet-on-wet, controlled washes, dry brush, lifting pigment with a brush, scarring the paper and spattering. A demonstration painting utilizing these methods is then completed. Each video: $24.95 Six-video set: $119.75

Color The artist presents an introductory overview of color concepts and color combinations. Some of the subjects presented use primary, secondary, and intermediate color, after-image, intensity, contrast, color value as well as monochromatic and analogous color schemes. A demonstration painting using complementary colors explores how many of these concepts are used. Masterworks also reinforce these concepts.   Each video: $24.95 Six-video set: $119.75

Composition Stephen Quiller shows painters how to develop compositions progressively from different subjects and how various shapes and values of a subject can trigger ideas for the painting. Starting with a quick compositional sketch, the artist then creates a value study for a finished landscape painting. The importance of interpreting the subject is emphasized as the artist arranges a still life and then demonstrates selecting shapes from the subject to be included in the composition. Each video: $24.95 Six-video set: $119.75

Experimental Water Media In this video the artist helps students expand their imagination by combining media. Watercolor is combined with graphite and charcoal, colored pencils, pastels, and oil pastels, resulting in a variety of special effects and abstract forms. Collage with tissue and torn paper as well as newspaper are added to watercolor in a mixed media painting. Stephen Quiller demonstrates a landscape painting utilizing some of the experimental techniques, with examples of several contemporary artist paintings. Each video: $24.95 Six-video set: $119.75

Acrylic Painting This video is targeted for high school, college, and beginning adults. Stephen Quiller demonstrates how to get started easily with acrylic painting. Basic materials are shown with pigments, a palette using freezer paper, and brushes and their care. The artist shows how to use acrylic-like watercolor with thin washes or in a translucent and opaque style. Demonstrations of a landscape, cityscape, and a still life further explore these properties. Each video: $24.95 Six-video set: $119.75

Visualizing What You Paint This program presents a variety of ideas that motivate students to see and to visualize subject matter, creating more spontaneous work. Through a series of short demonstrations, students learn to look at negative shapes and to paint around the subject. They learn to see more abstractly a “mother color” while painting on-location or in the studio . Each video: $24.95 Six-video set: $119.75