Kunz DVD workshops and "Painting Watercolor Portraits that Glow" Book!
Take the worry out of watercolor! Jan Kunz’s structured approach takes the fear out of any subject, including portraits!
Introduce a friend to watercolor with Getting Started Right in Watercolor. This workshop includes two entry level exercises and basic information to help beginners avoid some very common problems.
Jan’s Roses in Crystal workshop, is a perfect workshop for flower lovers.
Jan’s portrait workshops: Watercolor Portrait Painting: Female, and Painting Watercolor Portraits: A Simple Approach From Photo to Finish (boy) make watercolor likenesses very ‘doable’. You will be amazed that you ever thought portraiture was something to avoid!
Jan’s book: Painting Watercolor Portraits That Glow is a highly sought after book by portrait painters. Used copies of this book were recently selling on Ebay at over $50. Creative Catalyst republished the book last year so that it could be more readily available. SIGNED copies are also available.
You can get ready for Mother’s Day by painting a portrait or give your Mom the workshop AND the book. A winning combination!
Watercolor Ways with Landscape Painting in Acrylic – Charles Harrington
(Sorry, this sale is over)
Are you in love with the look of watercolor landscapes but want something that doesn’t need protection under glass? Then you definitely need to check out Charles Harrington’s “Watercolor Ways with Landscape Painting in Acrylic” art instruction DVD.
This workshop helps ease the transition from watercolors to acrylics! Harrington takes the best qualities of both watercolor and acrylic and brings them together: the juicy transparency of watercolor and the permanence and flexibility of acrylics. Charles uses a small watercolor painting executed en Plein air as a reference and demonstrates how to strengthen design, create multiple textures, achieve depth and retain a variety of edge qualities using acrylics. With acrylics, artists can reclaim whites clear up to the end! That alone makes this workshop worth checking out!!
THREE great drawing workshops!
Make drawing second nature!
Three excellent workshops: Carl Dalio’s Sketching in Perspective – Drawing and Composition for Artists,
David N. Kitler’s Draw with Confidence, from Basic to Brilliant and
Craig Nelson’s Drawing a Duotone Portrait. You will learn skills that are integral to fine painting and drawing. Check it out!
THREE great drawing workshops!
Make drawing second nature!
Three excellent workshops: Carl Dalio’s Sketching in Perspective – Drawing and Composition for Artists,
David N. Kitler’s Draw with Confidence, from Basic to Brilliant and
Craig Nelson’s Drawing a Duotone Portrait. You will learn skills that are integral to fine painting and drawing. Check it out!
Preview all of our drawing DVDs
Watercolor Ways with Landscape Painting in Acrylic- Charles Harrington
(Sorry, this sale has ended but the DVD workshop is still available)
Are you in love with the look of watercolor landscapes but want something that doesn’t need protection under glass? Then you definitely need to check out Charles Harrington’s “Watercolor Ways with Landscape Painting in Acrylic”. This workshop helps ease the transition from watercolors to acrylics!
Harrington takes the best qualities of both watercolor and acrylic and brings them together: the juicy transparency of watercolor and the permanence and flexibility of acrylics. Charles uses a small watercolor painting executed en Plein air as a reference and demonstrates how to strengthen design, create multiple textures, achieve depth and retain a variety of edge qualities using acrylics. With acrylics, artists can reclaim whites clear up to the end! That alone makes this workshop worth checking out!!
ART STAMPING INNOVATIONS with Gloria Page
January 21, 2008
Get ready to have Art Stamping become your new favorite medium! Expressive, innovative and very practical, art stamping can be everything from a simple gift tag to an elegant full page design. Paper, cloth, polymer clay… it’s all within reach!
Gloria Page shows you all you need to know to get off to an exciting start or push your ’stamping’ to a new level of creativity. She gives an overview of the possibilities of art stamping and an inspiring closer look at some very creative applications of the medium. Gloria discusses traditional and innovative carving surfaces, and the benefits of each. She demonstrates the best carving technique for accuracy and safety. She reviews inks and embossing products and shows how they vary when used on a different surfaces. You learn specific techniques such as bleaching and image transfers, and Gloria shows you design examples you can try at home. She even shows several methods to transfer images to express your personal style. Additionally, you learn applications for mixed media. Finally, Gloria demonstrates projects that are easy to make and look fantastic.
Gloria’s enthusiasm and great ideas are absolutely contagious. The workshop is fun, creative and stimulating. It will inspire your own design combinations and you will find yourself using your paper, acrylic textures, quilt embellishments, assemblages and collage pieces in new and innovative ways.
The DVD workshop includes a printable list of supplies to help you find these materials easily. And it includes instructions and a pattern for folding the traditional Masu Box.
This DVD workshop is 2 hours in length plus a gallery of Gloria’s work.
VIRGINIA COBB DVD workshop is here!
We are delighted to offer another NEW Creative Catalyst Productions workshop. You can now Pre-Order! Virginia Cobb’s ACRYLIC ABSTRACT PAINTING: The Evolving Image.
You will find this a bit different from the standard ‘how to’ workshop. In this workshop Virginia demonstrates the PROCESS or APPROACH to problem solving she uses to make her paintings a personal statement. Virginia paints three paintings, each based on a different element of design: form, line and texture. Her “no holds barred” handling of the media is eye opening! She does whatever it takes to achieve her goal; a satisfying end result. Virginia’s process keeps painting interesting, challenging and a growth experience. She intentionally “pushes the envelope”. Much of her thinking is expressed in the 37 minute interview, also included in this DVD workshop.
I found this workshop to be one of the more thought-provoking and inspiring of any we have filmed. I caution everyone, this it is NOT for the beginner who is content to struggle with technique alone. However, it IS perfect for any artist who is looking for a way to think about design, artists who are ready to be challenged, and acrylic painters who wonder how to achieve texture, depth and mystery in non-objective work. It’s a “must see” for non-objective painters and collage artists of any media…. in my humble opinion.
The workshop is 1 hour and 44 minutes plus the interview.
A new title at Creative Catalyst: Jane Paul Angelhart’s WATERCOLOR PORTRAIT
January 8, 2008
We are pleased to add add a NEW DVD Workshop to our “From Other Production Company’s” list, THE WATERCOLOR PORTRAIT by Jane Paul Angelhart (portrait of a young boy).
Her approach to watercolor portraiture is paced and cautious. Her goal is to achieve a likeness of her subject; a small boy that is vibrant, clean and transparent. The workshop is divided into four sections.
1) You begin with the introduction which also acts as a gallery of her work.
2) She reviews materials.
3) Presents an exercise to help you become familiar with your pigments.
4) Finally, you join Jane in the main body of the workshop. The image is already drawn on the paper. After a quick discussion on how she uses a computer to enlarge her reference photo to show more information, Jane begins by painting the child’s features.
Jane uses what she refers to as “circus colors”. Collectively the colors make an energetic portrait, perfect for her young subject. Jane tackles small areas in an unhurried manner. You have a very clear view of every move she makes and there are frequent insets of the subject photo. The DVD is 98 min. in length.
BARBARA NECHIS DVD and BOOK at CCP
Barbara Nechis,produced a workshop video, Watercolor with Barbara Nechis, with Artists’ Video Productions a number of years ago and re-released it on DVD this year. We are pleased to make this DVD available to you at CCP for $29.95.
We are also stocking her book, Watercolor From the Heart, Techniques for Painting the Essence of Nature
View Barbara Nechis’ New Web Page
Hugh Greer DVD
SPOTLIGHT ON HUGH GREER’s seasonal shifts!
The color of light greatly impacts the mood of a landscape, and that is no where more apparent than in acrylic artist Hugh Greer’s, Create Mood and Atmosphere with Color and Value. Hugh executes two paintings of the same scene adjusting (you got it) color and value! The results are dramatically different. Hugh shows you how small changes can make a big difference! His incredible handling of the pigment and brilliant color sense is something to behold… truly awe-inspiring! In addition, it is one of three workshops that start with the very basics and progress to this advanced level. The trio makes a great gift also.
Craig Nelson’s Drawing Workshops
Build a solid foundation in the visual arts with Craig Nelson’s drawing workshops. Nelson draws with a variety of media (pastel, conte, charcoal) while he demonstrates and discusses the issues he has discovered are most important to success in drawing and painting. His incredible teaching style comes from years of experience as a professor at Art Center College of Design (Los Angeles) and the San Francisco Academy of Art College where he is currently the Department Director of Fine Art.
Drawing with Pastel & Charcoal
Drawing a Duotone Portrait
Drawing Gesture in Charcoal & Pastel
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