Ask a Question; “Encaustic Collage Workshop” Pre-Order Special
Patricia Baldwin Seggebruch’s fast, fun, and inexpensive methods break down the barriers to working in encaustic. In this DVD workshop Patricia leads you through three encaustic collage projects using dozens of creative methods and materials. You’ll start with low-cost supplies from stores you visit every week and incorporate techniques from collage, scrapbooking, painting, and other media that make you feel at home.
Take advantage of the Pre-Order special and get the chance to ask Patricia a question!
1. After an on-line Pre-Order is placed, you will receive a questionnaire form via email.
2. You can fill it out with your question for Patricia and send it back.
3. The artist will then select questions from the group to answer.
4. Over the next several weeks, answers will be publicly available on the newly revamped ccpvideos blog and made available to everyone!
DESIGN WITH THE FIGURE
No matter your medium or subject, Polly Hammett offers ways to think about design that will expand your horizons. She uses the figure to explain her multifaceted and open ended approach that assures strong cohesive paintings.
Polly begins by describing what she looks for with her model and how placement and proximity impact the direction of the painting’s content. You see how she assesses value patterns, designs backgrounds, manipulate texture and include mixed media. You also learn how to find direction and strength in your own work when evaluating your paintings. No matter your media, you will gain confidence and learn ways to strengthen your paintings with Polly Hammett’s Design with the Figure.
Valid on Online or Mail-In orders only … Retail price is $39.95 – Sale Price is $34.95 + S/H – Sale ends Tuesday, 11/09/08.
LAST CHANCE TO SAVE ON SALMINEN
Learn the process John Salminen uses to shape his complex imagery into a world class painting. He hits the streets of New York to gather candid reference shots for his urban scene. He shoots with a designer’s eye. When he returns to the studio, he modifies the color and composition of his reference materials. John teaches a simple system for accurately transferring his complex image to watercolor paper.
John lays a foundation with careful masking and vivid washes of hard-to-define colors. He concentrates on value relationships as he fills his landscape with shimmering streets and glowing neon. He uses mesmerizing reflective effects as an entry point to the composition and directs attention with white paper. John tones down conflicting passages with a mouth atomizer. He continually solves design problems, modifying colors in his foreground figure and lifting to enhance lines. The workshop includes exercises in perspective drawing and extensive discussions of design and reference photography.
This is the final week to receive the pre-order discount … the DVD arrives in our warehouse this week!
Retail Price will be $52.95, Pre-Order Price is $47.95 until the DVD arrives in our warehouse.
John Salminen Urban Landscape
Overwhelmed by complex subject matter? Learn how one of the nation’s most award-winning artists unifies design in his intricate scenes.
Join John Salminen AWS DF, NWS as he hits the streets of New York City to gather candid reference shots for his urban scene. He shoots with a designer’s eye.
When he returns to the studio, he modifies the color and composition of his reference materials. John teaches a simple system for accurately transferring his complex image to watercolor paper. He lays a foundation with careful masking and vivid washes of hard-to-define colors. He concentrates on value relationships as he fills his landscape with shimmering streets and glowing neon. He uses mesmerizing reflective effects as an entry point to the composition and directs attention with white paper. John tones down conflicting passages with a mouth atomizer. He continually solves design problems, modifying colors in his foreground figure and lifting to enhance lines.
This workshop includes exercises in perspective drawing and extensive discussions of design and reference photography.
Get the Pre-Order special price until the DVD arrives in our warehouse.
George James Workshops
If creativity is a fire, then George James may well be the blow torch of ignition!
As a pioneer of YUPO (synthetic paper) James generously reveals his techniques to achieve dependable results in his first workshop, Mastering Yupo. It is a library of information.
In workshop two, The Artistic Process on Yupo, James shares his design considerations, use of symbolism and patterning to create a cohesive composition.
In his third workshop, Designing for Content (part of the CCP Masters’ Series) James focuses on how to develop a personal memory into a meaningful visual statement. He introduces a few new techniques, but the main thrust of the workshop is about one artist’s inner dialog with shape, color, rhythm, form and imagery. It’s a powerful collection from a wonderful teacher.
Sale ends Tuesday, November 4, 08.
Mark Mehaffey
COLOR AND DESIGN USING A MOUTH ATOMIZER with Mark Mehaffey WATERCOLOR – Mehaffey proves there’s more than one way to get paint on paper in “Color and Design Using a Mouth Atomizer.” First you learn what the mouth atomizer is and how to use it to create vivid work. Next, Mehaffey shows how to adhere your drawing to frisket and explains how to sequence your spray passages by approaching your work backwards. Mehaffey discusses a few simple rules that will help you strengthen your design including color balance and bounce. His final painting is crisp and radiant, and he didn’t use a brush. (From Lynn, “The mouth atomizer has become one of my favorite tools.”) From its simplest application (to smooth out a large area without disturbing the underlying paint) to creating a subtle, yet complex design, it is fun and opens up new opportunities. Mehaffey isn’t the only one who uses the atomizer, John Salminen also takes advantage of this tiny tool’s big effects in his upcoming workshop, “Urban Landscape in Watercolor.”
Capturing Limited Light Using Expressive Brushwork by Betty Carr
Betty’s energetic approach to watercolor is contagious. Her workshop covers concepts such as: beginning with darks rather than lights, how to direct the visual path using gradations and darks, painting on a vertical surface, carrying the energy off the page and how to use expressive brushwork to add life to a painting. Along the way, Betty shares how she uses her sketch book to design her painting and think through her value pattern, her favorite quotes, warm-up exercises and much more.
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Ever wonder what the big deal is about polymer clay? Here’s your chance to find out why this versatile product is so popular. In Dayle Doroshow’s two workshops she takes inspirations from the motifs of Provence, France (DD1d) and China (DD2d) to develop exciting faux materials out of Polymer clay (Femo).
You learn to make ‘jade’, ‘bone’, ‘mileflorie’ and how to create an antique look and transfer images. Dayle creates jewelry, pendants, boxes, books, beads and charms… all great fun and it makes wonderful gifts or ephemera for collage or quilting projects. Check it out!
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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!!
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.
Creative Catalyst Newsletter – May 22, 2007
One week Polymer Clay DVD sale- $10 off
Are you getting ready for a summer that includes creative kids? Learn to make personalized items such as jewelry, pens, boxes, and journals with polymer clay and create keepsakes that will remind you of the good times for years to come. Join polymer (Femo) artist Dayle Doroshow and learn some really cool techniques from either of her two DVD workshops:
International Inspirations in Polymer Clay, Vol.1: Provence
International Inspirations in Polymer Clay, Vol.2: China
Post your entries on the CCP web site for the Summer Art Show: Story Telling in Art.
All media is welcome. The juror is Creative Catalyst Productions instructor Ann Baldwin. Entries close August 30, 2007.
When I was a child, I remember one of my Moms first art shows. A friend of hers, the renowned teacher and mentor Reynold Brown, gave her a word of advice. He told her that you can tell the difference between an accomplished artists and a novice by the attention the artist gives to the edges of their shapes. Whether or not this is true, it has stuck with me throughout the years. Reynold, after all, was an instructor at Art Center School of Design and an illustrator.
Over the years, I’ve been especially alert to whatever anyone says about edges. Below are a few remarks from other artists:
William Reese: Have an entry point and escape route in and out of your shapes using a value transition or soft edge.
Skip Lawrence: All the information is in the edges.
Jan Kunz: A soft value transition on an edge of a shadow can indicate a rounded surface. A hard edge indicates an abrupt change of direction or a shadow cast by another object. In addition, Jan says to connect your foreground subject to the background by ‘loosing an edge’. Notice how the model in Jan’s painting becomes part of his environment in part because his left shoulder is very close in value to the background. – Lynn
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