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Painting is one of the most popular forms of art, and it includes many approaches and mediums. No one style defines painting. This collection of DVDs offer techniques for novices, advanced painters, and everyone in between.

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Dancing with Yupo: Tools & Techniques with Taylor Ikin

The versatility of the synthetic paper gives Taylor Ikin the freedom that perfectly suits her approach to painting. Ikin begins with an in-depth discussion of her materials. She answers frequently asked questions about YUPO and explains how to paint, draw, revise and erase on synthetic paper. She reveals how to keep paintings lively by eliminating earth tones and concentrating on exciting hues. She encourages you to work quickly using large bold strokes. Her free-flowing style lends itself to colorful natural scenes. She works to give a sense... Preview Video
Artist: Taylor Ikin
Producer: Creative Catalyst
Sku: TIK1d
Runtime: 108 Min.
Innovative Water Media with Nicholas Simmons

Unconventional and innovative, Nicholas Simmons brings a breath of fresh air to water-media techniques. Join the 2007 National Watercolor Society top prize winner as he works large-scale and reveals how challenges unique to water-media can be turned to the artist’s advantage, with stunning results. He incorporates blooming, crawl-backs, bleeding and puddling, and demonstrates methods for integrating masked areas with wet-in-wet painting. Nick mixes watercolor with fluid acrylic, encourages the paper to buckle, and boldly wields a spray... Preview Video
Artist: Nicholas Simmons
Producer: Creative Catalyst
Sku: NS1d
Runtime: 120 Min.
Sku: HG3d
Create Mood & Atmosphere with Color & Value with Hugh Greer

Learn to control light and depth as you build atmospheric landscapes from the ground up. In this acrylic DVD workshop, Hugh Greer develops two winter scenes from the same sketch, varying his color scheme, contrast, and edge treatment to render a distinct mood in each.   Preview Video
Artist: Hugh Greer
Producer: Creative Catalyst
Sku: HG3d
Runtime: 120 Min.
Landscape Studies in Acrylic with Hugh Greer

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Sku: HG2d
Landscape Studies in Acrylic with Hugh Greer

In this DVD workshop, Hugh Greer demonatrates four outdoor scenes: dry winter trees, dramatic clouds, flat prairie vista and evening winter sky. Each scene expresses elements basic to landscape painting. Preview Video
Artist: Hugh Greer
Producer: Creative Catalyst
Sku: HG2d
Runtime: 93 Min.
Acrylic Landscape Painting: Tools & Techniques with Hugh Greer

Get a great start in acrylic landscape painting with award winning artist Hugh Greer. The beginning level acrylic painting lessons in this instructional video,  will get you excited to take your acrylic painting to the next level! Learn Hugh Greer's acrylic painting style and the techniques and tools he uses in his landscape painting. Preview Video
Artist: Hugh Greer
Producer: Creative Catalyst
Sku: HG1d
Runtime: 90 Min.
The You Factor: Powerful, Personal Design in Opaque Watercolor with Donna Zagotta

Discover the most interesting elements from your source material as you mold shapes and relationships to fit your unique vision. Donna Zagotta’s inquisitive approach to design helps you create powerful compositions that say as much about you as they do about your subjects. In this DVD workshop  Zagotta breaks her process into manageable steps and approaches design challenges one at a time. With her design firmly established, she is free to focus on her extended painting process. She concentrates on setting up color relationships and... Preview Video
Artist: Donna Zagotta
Producer: Creative Catalyst
Sku: DZ1d
Runtime: 154 Min.
Acrylic Landscapes the Watercolor Way with Charles Harrington

Learn how to capitalize on the unique advantages of acrylics including the ability to layer opaque, translucent and transparent effects. In this DVD workshop, Charles Harrington show you how he combines the subtle color shifts and luminosity of watercolor with the durability of acrylics. Preview Video
Artist: Charles Harrington
Producer: Creative Catalyst
Sku: CPH1d
Runtime: 60 Min.
Saturated Wet Technique with Cheng-Khee Chee

Learn how to paint with master painter Cheng-Khee Chee as he stretches the boundaries of watercolor media with his signature style, the Saturated Wet Technique, that uniquely blends design principles of East and West. Preview Video
Artist: Cheng-Khee Chee
Producer: Creative Catalyst
Sku: CC3d
Runtime: 95 Min.
Elements and Principles of Design with Tony Couch

“What makes good art?” Join Tony Couch in this instructional video, Elements and Principles of Design, for a provocative and informative discussion of traditional and time-proven elements and principles of design. Preview Video
Artist: Tony Couch
Producer: Crystal
Sku: 22-TC5d
Runtime: 45 Min.
Painting Streams, Rocks and Trees in Watercolor with Tony Couch

Learn how to start with a simple value drawing, compose, and choose subjects for your painting as master watercolorist Tony Couch creates a scene featuring streams, rocks and trees. Students of all levels will learn benefits of mixing colors on the page, and how to overcome unique challenges of working with watercolor. Preview Video
Artist: Tony Couch
Producer: Crystal
Sku: 22-TC2d
Runtime: 55 Min.
Painting Barns in Watercolor with Tony Couch

Invigorate your painting and learn to tell fascinating stories with your brush. This lesson with renowned artist and educator Tony Couch will provide you with multiple techniques for planning a watercolor painting, infusing it with “juicy color,” and maintaining a consistent light source throughout the process. Preview Video
Artist: Tony Couch
Producer: Crystal
Sku: 22-TC1d
Runtime: 50 Min.
Watermedia Techniques: Watercolor & Gouache with Stephen Quiller

Learn how to combine watercolor and gouache for striking texture. Stephen Quiller’s lesson about watermedia techniques will build your confidence and infuse your paintings with striking color and texture. Elevate your art with this demonstration of palette arrangement, color shifts, and more. Preview Video
Artist: Stephen Quiller
Producer: Crystal
Sku: 22-SQ6d
Runtime: 60 Min.
Acrylic Techniques with Stephen Quiller

Explore the versatility of acrylic paints and painting techniques with confidence. In this art instruction video, internationally-known artist Stephen Quiller demonstrates the best way to apply acrylics to a variety of surfaces. Learn how color families and white space can bring a greater richness to your work. Preview Video
Artist: Stephen Quiller
Producer: Crystal
Sku: 22-SQ5d
Runtime: 55 Min.
Color for the Artist with Stephen Quiller

Master color theory and learn to create vibrant paintings even with a limited palette. In this art instruction video, world renowned artist Stephen Quiller uses his personal color wheel to teach students of all levels how to design successful color schemes, mix hues, and plan a better palette. Preview Video
Artist: Stephen Quiller
Producer: Crystal
Sku: 22-SQ4d
Runtime: 51 Min.
Water Media Techniques: Acrylic & Casein with Stephen Quiller

Learn to master the use of acrylic and casein paints, and achieve stunning landscape paintings with master artists Stephen Quiller. Beginning on location in Taos, New Mexico, Quiller demonstrates techniques for creating transparent and opaque washes, Impasto textures, and other special effects. Preview Video
Artist: Stephen Quiller
Producer: Crystal
Sku: 22-SQ3d
Runtime: 60 Min.
Sku: 22-SQ2d
Color Concepts with Stephen Quiller

Strengthen your flexibility and skill in using color with this motivational workshop from world class artist Stephen Quiller. Learn how to use Quiller’s unique color wheel to create moods, invent color combinations, and attract and move the viewer’s eye through your paintings. Preview Video
Artist: Stephen Quiller
Producer: Crystal
Sku: 22-SQ2d
Runtime: 61 Min.
Framing, Matting & Hanging by On Air Video

Proper framing is the final touch for presenting your work. Framing and matting are important to protect artwork from dust, careless handling, acids, pollutants, and moisture. Equally important, though, proper framing and matting can enhance and reveal the beauty of your artwork. Preview Video
Artist: Larry Withers
Producer: On Air Video
Sku: 22-OAV7d
Runtime: 83 Min.
Anatomy for Artists: The Human Form Revealed - OnAirVideo.com

Learn the mechanics and physics behind the human anatomy and how to create accurate representations of the human form. Develop an understanding of on muscular and skeletal systems, simple and complex muscle groups, and crucial joints and body mechanisms. Preview Video
Artist: Larry Withers
Producer: On Air Video
Sku: 22-OAV3d
Runtime: 52 Min.
Color Mixology: How To See And Mix The Color You Really Want

The array of colors available to today’s artist is staggering. That’s why it’s more important than ever that the artist have a command of color theory and color mixing.      This program is a “hands-on” course on color mixing designed to give the artist the knowledge and practical experience needed to mix colors—oils or acrylics—with complete confidence. This video is structured around the four basic characteristics of color: hue, value, intensity and color bias. Once you know... Preview Video
Artist: Sharyn Pak Withers
Producer:
Sku: 22-OAV13
Runtime: 67 minutes Min.
Creating Abstract Art with Gerald Brommer

Gain perspective on abstract art and learn four methods for abstracting representational images from a reference photograph from master painter and teacher Gerald Brommer. Learn how to reduce a complicated scene to its simplest shapes and why design is more important than the subject. Preview Video
Artist: Gerald Brommer
Producer: Crystal
Sku: 22-GB6d
Runtime: 30 Min.
Exploring Watercolor from Location to Studio by Gerald Brommer

Learn effective techniques for choosing a nature subject, and extracting the most essential elements for use in your watercolor painting. Master teacher Gerald Brommer explains his fluid process for conveying the feeling, more than the reality, of a natural setting. Preview Video
Artist: Gerald Brommer
Producer: Crystal
Sku: 22-GB4d
Runtime: 60 Min.
Watercolor in Action: Responding to Nature with Gerald Brommer

Learn essential techniques for choosing the subject of a nature painting, and allowing the color, texture, and mood of the place to come alive in your watercolor painting. Master artist Gerald Brommer explains how to select painting techniques to maneuver the elements into the right composition. Preview Video
Artist: Gerald Brommer
Producer: Crystal
Sku: 22-GB2d
Runtime: 60 Min.
Sku: 22-FW2d
Frank Webb on Watercolor

Spend a day with master watercolor artist Frank Webb as he demonstrates and discusses the most essential watercolor painting techniques. Watch as Webb creates several paintings from value sketches and elaborates on challenges and advantages of watercolor. Preview Video
Artist: Frank Webb
Producer: Crystal
Sku: 22-FW2d
Runtime: 60 Min.
Flowers in Watercolor with Charles Reid

Join master watercolorist Charles Reid in his studio, and learn how to create luminous flowers in watercolor. You’ll enjoy a step-by-step lesson that takes you from a deconstructed sketch all the way to a completed painting full of variety and life. Preview Video
Artist: Charles Reid
Producer: Crystal
Sku: 22-CR1d
Runtime: 58 Min.
Acrylics: The Watercolor Alternative with Charles Harrington

Get the best of both worlds! Learn how to get the look of watercolor but enjoy the durability of acrylics with Charles Harrington. Harrington explains how to draw inspiration from the natural world while demonstrating the process for creating two very different landscapes. Preview Video
Artist: Charles Harrington
Producer: Teaching Art
Sku: 22-CPH2d
Runtime: 128 Min.

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