Bob Ross 3 Hour Workshop DVD English
April 13, 2009 by Learn to Paint · Leave a Comment
Bob Ross 3 Hour Workshop DVD English
Your Private Classroom with Bob Ross! Presented in his warm and patient style, this high quality 3-Hour Workshop DVD answers all the questions you have about the popular Bob Ross Wet-on-Wet Technique
The Art of Romare Bearden
April 13, 2009 by Learn to Paint · Leave a Comment
Romare Bearden’s art captures the diversity and richness of his life. With roots in North Carolina, Bearden migrated north at an early age, living in industrial Pittsburgh, vibrant Harlem, and, later in his life, on the Caribbean island of St. Martin. These four locales and his memories of their people, music, colors, and stories form the basis of Bearden’s collages and paintings, whose style exhibits a unique blend of cultural influences from Harlem, Europe, and Africa.
This film traces Bearden’s entire career, including his paintings and watercolors of the 1940s, experimental collages of 1964, mature collages of the next two decades, large-scale public murals, and late landscapes. The documentary also features commentary by art historians, artists, and others who knew Bearden, including Wynton Marsalis, Albert Murray, and Emma Amos. Narrated by Morgan Freeman with readings by Danny Glover.
User Ratings and Reviews
3 Stars collage painter
This documentary would be great for classes in elementary, secondary, or tertiary schools.
Bearden really practiced DuBois’ views on double consciousness. He blended African sculpture with cubism. He used pointilism and applied it to black American subjects. He portrayed the urban and rural landscapes.
Still, I have some questions. Danny Glover reads quotes from the artist. Bearden was not a Harlem Renaissance painter. He died in the 1980s. He was around after talkies. They show films of him in color. It’s not like he was Shakespeare. Surely they could have shown clips of him speaking for himself. They never say he was mute or had problems in front of the media.
Mr. Bearden was so light-skinned that I didn’t know that he was African American until well into the documentary. Eventually they show his parents and his mother looked white. One interviewee described him as “light-skinned” but then the subject is never brought up again. Why not? Malcolm X spoke often about what it was like to be light-skinned and have a white grandparent. Bearden had a light complexion but his subject matter always covered people of African descent in rich ebony and cocoa hues. One could ask why he never portrayed subjects of his own complection.
I’m sure that Bearden was a terrific artist. But anybody with a pair of scissors can make a collage. In a similar vein, I wonder why David Hockney is praised when anyone can take the photographs he has. I wish the documentary explored on a deeper level what was so special about Bearden’s collages or what else did he make besides collages.
How to Paint a Seascape in Oils STORMY BEACH
April 13, 2009 by Learn to Paint · Leave a Comment
How to Paint a Seascape in Oils STORMY BEACH
A Complete seascape painting lesson DVD. Renowned teaching artist Peter Bate uses the same teaching methods as in his popular weekly painting classes. Starting from a blank canvas board and proceeding with a step by step teaching style, demonstrating brushing techniques and colour mixing methods that will not interfere with the students own natural and developing style, all the way through to a finished artwork ready to be mounted and displayed.
This method would be suitable for beginning artists as well as advanced and is suitable for oil and acrylic paints.
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Oil Painting Mediums and Their Uses presented by fine artist Johnnie Liledahl
April 13, 2009 by Learn to Paint · Leave a Comment
Oil Painting Mediums and Their Uses presented by fine artist Johnnie Liledahl
Join fine artist, Johnnie Liledahl as she explores various oil painting mediums and their different uses in this 50 minute DVD.
The following types of oil painting mediums and their uses are discussed:
Spirits of Turpentine
Odorless Turpenoid
Turpenoid Natural
Pure Linseed Oil
Stand Oil
Thickened Linseed Oil
Light Drying Oil
Oil Painting Medium
Liquiglaze
Copal Medium
Resin Oil Medium 789
Rapidry
Japan Drier
Res-N-Gel
Sphynx Retouch Varnish
Damar Varnish
Synvar Varnish
Matvar 53
Blue Label Fixatif
Conservation Products
Cleaning Solution
Salamander Restorative
Sitting Pretty Painting Portraits in Oil from Photographs
April 13, 2009 by Learn to Paint · Leave a Comment
Sitting Pretty Painting Portraits in Oil from Photographs
LEARN TO PAINT PORTRAITS FROM PHOTOGRAPHS!
LEARN TO MAKE A WORK OF ART USING PHOTOS AS REFERENCES IN 10 EASY STEPS.
Watch Johnnie as she reveals the secrets of transforming a photograph into a painting, while achieving an incredible likeness. She gives you sound advice and specific examples on how to analyze your photographs and create your own value guides using ordinary tools at hand. Everyone can paint their favorite person using these simple techniques.
Buy both videos in this series, “Sitting Pretty” & “Giving Thanks” to see her paint two faces for you while she explains how to choose a palette of fleshtones, eliminate distracting elements and create an integrated color scheme for the whole painting.
User Ratings and Reviews
4 Stars Great DvD but dealing with the company?
I have really enjoyed most of the Lilipubs dvd’s and video’s, But if you have a problem, or comment about any of them or need to exchange a product, thier comments back can be somewhat harsh. It is too bad they don’t have a better coustomer service representitive( Ralf)
