BestGFX

This DVD covers many key topics which will lead to a better to a better understanding of how to paint the landscape outdoors in oils, with Warwick Fuller, Australian landscape painter. 90 minutes of instruction on how to tackle a landscape painting start to finish. In particular, he stresses three pivotal aspects will help you control the painting and will ultimately allow you to paint any subject more effectively.

Educational video in which we can see, creating beautiful works of nature and training selection of a reference to the final signature.
Donato begins the DVD by taking photographic reference, used to add a high degree of realism and detail to his thumbnail sketch. Work on the the actual oil painting gives him opportunity to cover everything from the delicate subtleties of portraiture to eye-popping metallic surfaces. Throughout the video Donato generously passes on his years of experience and ends by inviting the viewer to surpass his own accomplishments.

Julie Cohn - The Dance of Watercolour: Beginners and Beyond
This easy to follow step-by-step DVD is ideally suited for the beginner and advanced beginner who want to learn watercolour, drawing and colour basics.
Julie's approach helps students understand that watercolour is a forgiving medium that is easy and fun to explore. The DVD contains the equivalent of 7 private lessons, including basic watercolour technique, colour principles, drawing tips for landscapes, and a landscape watercolour demonstration using bright, expressive colours.

The workshop explains and demonstrates the Flemish technique in the process of painting a portrait of a beautiful young woman. I believe that the quality of the color layer and the likeness to the model in this portrait are exceptional (working in front of the camera, perhaps, makes one concentrate better).

Scott Burdick is known for his bold brushwork and lush color in his figurative paintings. What underlies those powerful paintings is a mastery of figurative drawing and anatomy. In this new four-hour program, Scott demonstrates how to use various drawing media to create masterful drawings in red conte, traditional charcoal and wet-brush charcoal powder.
Burdick is a master of many media, which this program will introduce to you. Working with the live model, he takes you through a drawing session that begins with five-minute gestures and ends with 20-minute long poses, over a period of three hours. The last demonstration is a portrait executed totally in a charcoal wash; that is, powdered charcoal applied with brush and water.

"For the past two decades, many of the finest artists to enter the American art scene hail from China. The period of modernism held no influence over Chinese art schools, whose mentors were the Russian schools set up in the first half of the 20th Century. Ironically, the beauty and power of late 19th Century, western, realist art was saved by the Communist regime of the Soviet Union when it banned all modern art from its schools and Universities.

CRAIG NELSON emphasizes logical order while drawing. He compares his drawing process to focusing a photograph. He builds layers of soft lines and swatches of tone then rapidly sharpens his subject with crisp edges and bold darks.You see Craig Nelson translate angles from his source photo to his paper, as he looks for reference points to guide him. He completes a gentle outline of his subject then dusts in a layer of tone.

Digital Painting tutorial video from Richard Anderson the second tutorial. As you guys request! Rich has been working hard on the new tutorial and now it is finish! Thanks to all you guys that e-mail him feedback and comment after his first video tutorial released. Now he is back with all the new tool and approach to conceptual or visual design for cinematic and illustration.

Bob Ross is famous for having created a fast technique spectacular oil paintings on canvas. All Bob Ross painting created during a half-hour session. He does not use a preliminary drawing, his main tool brush ? 3''and palette knife. With his participation was made about Zoo TV Joy of Painting, which still enjoy great success.

His evocative paintings have won ten national awards in the past two years. He is a signature member of four watercolor societies and is featured in several publications. This unique video will demonstrate how you can create dramatic portraits using: Color Theory, Color Intensity, Posing, Exciting Skin Tones, Local Color, Dramatic Color, Edges, and Textures.

Gary Jenkins to the 2008 season taught painting beautiful flowers and birds in oils. This season includes 26 lessons over a period of 26 minutes. In this season, not all the paintings are painted from scratch, the birds are drawn separately. In the folder presentedin templates for drawing. Learn to paint realistic flowers and cute birds in a short time, even if you never painted before. Also in this release includes codecs, and Real Player files for ease of reading.

Learn watercolor painting techniques to raise your painting to the next level. Watch up close as Ann Pember controls and directs the natural qualities of gravity, water, and pigment to create clean, vibrant color and capture the uniqueness and vitality of each subject.

David Bellamy, successful painter and author demonstrates his method of painting with watercolours. He visits the Pembrokeshire coast and Snowdonia to display his art.
This DVD is an ideal introduction into the basics of watercolour painting.
Whether you are a complete novice or more advanced this DVD provides an excellent insight into the watercolour medium, and offers many tips and tricks to enhance your artwork.

The following videos present methods of seeing, understanding and drawing force through an assessment of life. The videos are broken down into chapters from the popular book, "Force, Dynamic Life Drawing for Animators".

This film contains two demonstrations: Rippled and Fast Moving Water. Bob begins his demonstrations showing how the paintings are composed and blocked out on the surface. The under painting is developed to establish color and value relationships. Turpenoid is used to scrub in the under tone which creates a preliminary structure for the painting that follows. Next, working from dark to light and thin to thick with layers of clean color, the paintings transition from large simple shapes to small shapes that suggest detail. This is an excellent video for all levels of pastel artists.

Build the Foundation for Consistently Better Paintings
Most unsuccessful paintings are ruined before the brush even gets to the canvas. Why?
Weak composition. There's no structure. No foundation.
If you start a painting that lacks structure--well, you know the experience... repainting this part, overworking that and getting lost and frustrated about how to proceed. And until that structural problem is understood it will continue to plague, frustrate and hamper each painting's progress and success.

Whether you want to make the most of your existing artistic flair, or just dabble in the arts, Teaching-you Art Skills is ideal. For both beginners and advanced artists, this complete drawing course will help you to master those essential techniques and tap into your creative talents.

Donato begins the DVD by taking photographic reference, used to add a high degree of realism and detail to his thumbnail sketch. Work on the the actual oil painting gives him opportunity to cover everything from the delicate subtleties of portraiture to eye-popping metallic surfaces. Throughout the video Donato generously passes on his years of experience and ends by inviting the viewer to surpass his own accomplishments.

On this DVD, Scott demonstrates the basic drawing techniques he uses when drawing aircraft. The lecture begins with a detailed look through some of his past aircraft drawings and the strategies employed while drawing them. Next, Scott demonstrates his techniques of establishing the perspective view and proportion of a couple of simple airplanes. He then draws three more aircraft for you in three different perspective views. The final drawing is then overlaid and refined into a finished line drawing. This DVD is a solid introduction to drawing aircraft of your own design in perspective, with a focus on basic perspective drawing skills.

Alwyn CrawshawAlwyn Crawshaw was born at Mirfield, Yorkshire and studied at Hastings School of Art . He now lives in Hickling, Norwich, Norfolk, with his wife June. Alwyn works in watercolour, oils and acrylics. He is Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and a member of the Society of Equestrian Artists, the British Watercolour Society, President of the National Acrylic Painters Association, Founder of the Society of Amateur Artists, and Honorary Member of the United Society of Artists.12 lessons watercolor painting from the charming British artist Alvin Kroshou (Alwyn Crawshaw) (pictured right).