Crystal Videos: Art Skills

Acrylic as Water Media
Artist: Stephen Quiller
An introduction to acrylic painting from the materials to the visually exciting characteristics of the medium seen through seven demonstrations of a variety of subjects. Quiller explores transparent, translucent, and opaque qualities using different undertones in the demonstrations.
CP-6154W VHS 55 min. . . . $39.95

Acrylic Techniques
Quiller explores different types of acrylics including fluid acrylics and metallic acrylics used on gessoed canvas, a wood panel, and clayboard through a series of seven demonstrations of landscapes and a still life as well as a painting on location.
CP-6155W VHS 55 min. . . . $39.95
CP-5500W Set of Two Acrylic Videos (CP-6154W, 6155W) . . . $69.95

Water Media Techniques: Watercolor and Gouache
Quiller shows how to use watercolor and gouache to demonstrate their properties, visual qualities, and handling characteristics. He shows equipment, papers, and materials for special effects. Techniques demonstrated include wet-in-wet, drybrush, and washes.
CP-767 60 min. VHS $39.95

Water Media Techniques: Acrylic and Casein
Quiller demonstrates the properties and handling characteristics of acrylic and casein. See how acrylic and casein can be used to create transparent and opaque washes, impasto textures, and the interaction of the media, as welI as techniques to create special effects. He creates a painting, first on location, and then in the studio.
CP-768W 60 min. VHS . . . . . $39.95
CP-774W Set of Two Water Media Videos (CP-767W, 768W) . . . $69.95

Color Concepts
Quiller relates the color wheel to the Quiller Wheel which indicates colors using the actual names of commercial pigments. He describes with painting demonstrations, charts, and completed paintings five color schemes, monochromatic, complementary, analogous, split complementary, and triad.
CP-784W 61 min. . . . . . $39.95

Color for the Artist
Quiller reviews the basic color concepts and the five color schemes. He demonstrates how colors create different moods, how to set up the palette for ease and accuracy in color mixing, and illustrates different types of paint application.
CP-785W VHS 54 min. . . . . . $39.95

Exploring Watercolor from Location to Studio
Brommer shares his painting techniques and thought process in creating watercolor landscapes that reflect the mood, color, and spirit of a particular scene. First, he takes us on location where he selects a shoreline scene. Then, he takes the location painting to the studio to complete the design and enrich the painting.
CP-781W 60 min. VHS . . . . . $39.95

Watercolor in Action Responding to Nature
Brommer demontrates how he captures the mood and feeling of a landscape. He selects a lighthouse which he combines with rocks, cypress trees, the ocean, and the shoreline. He organizes the surrounding features into a dynamic composition. He completes the painting in the studio enhancing the details and values.
CP-780W 60 min. VHS . . . . . $39.95

Watercolor and Collage
Brommer is known for his richly textured paintings combining watercolor and collage. He shows how to add texture to watercolors with rice paper collage. The video includes a series of short lessons illustrating how collage is applied and the techniques of using it with watercolor to create small abstract paintings. He then demonstrates a watercolor and collage landscape painting from concept to finished work.
CP-783W 60 min. VHS . . . . . $39.95

Imaging in Watercolor
Brommer builds a painting from remembered imagery and sketches of the countryside around Oaxaca, Mexico. Follow his basic process of identifying and sketching recalled images, designing and composing these elements in sketch form, and building a painting.
CP-795W 60 min. VHS . . . . . $39.95

Elements and Principles of Design
Artist and educator Tony Couch graphically explains how the elements of design including line, shape, value, color, texture, and direction are used to build a design. He shows how each of the principles of design, balance, harmony, gradation, repetition, contrast, dominance, and unity apply to each of the elements. The artist draws diagrams and shows his paintings and other masterworks to illustrate how the elements are applied to the principles. For example, we see how shapes are combined to create balance or how color and value provide gradation.
CP-736W 46 min. VHS . . . . . $39.95

Painting Streams, Rocks, and Trees in Watercolor
Tony Couch is noted for his concise teaching methods and his bright watercolors. He shares his painting skills as he portrays a mountain stream, trees, weeds, rocks, and water. He arranges the light, middle, and dark values to create a center of interest, and you see how color, lines, shapes, and textures are used to develop a strong design. Couch leads you step-by-step through the process of painting the landscape with many close-up views.
CP-738W 55 min. VHS . . . . . $29.95

Painting Barns in Watercolor
Tony Couch, known for his dynamic watercolor workshops and best-selling book, Watercolor, You Can Do It, brings his teaching methods to video. Join Tony on location as he prepares a reference marker drawing of a mountain barn and establishes his value pattern and composition. You will see a complete step-by-step demonstration of his watercolor painting, and he will explain to you in simple terms what hešs doing and why. The camera gives you close-up views of how he uses color, shape, texture, and value in painting barns, trees, weeds, and sky in this easy-to-follow demonstration.
CP-737W 50 min. VHS . . . . . $29.95

Drawing and Sketching with Markers
Using step-by-step demonstrations, Tony Couch shows the techniques he uses to create sketches and drawings with felt-tip markers. His first demonstration is a nautical scene drawing using three basic values including black and two values of gray. Then, he creates a dramatic still life of fruits and vegetables with colored markers. In this demonstration, he first develops the shapes and colors before adding darker values to create form and dimension. He completes the painting by adding dark accents.
CP-771W 60 min. VHS . . . . . $39.95

Drawing: Learning Professional Techniques
Tony Couch, professional artist, educator, and author, demonstrates the professional drawing techniques he feels are necessary to create a work of art ?contour drawing, gesture drawing, and developing one-point and two-point perspective from different views. He also shows how to use accent line to create interest and to use basic shapes in developing your drawings and to incorporate crosshatching and shading to produce form. Using these techniques, he then completes three landscape drawings. These include pencil, colored markers, and ink with a bamboo pen over a watercolor wash.
CP-770W 59 min. VHS . . . . . $39.95

Drawing Landscapes with Pencil and Ink
Tony Couch, artist, educator, and author, shows how easy it is to create professional-looking drawings using basic methods with pencil and ink. Giving special emphasis to values and modeling, he first creates a coastline landscape with pencil. He uses accent line, texture, and shading to draw rocks, trees, weeds and water. Then, to show you how drawing can be used with other media, he demonstrates another landscape by drawing with ink and brush over a loosely painted watercolor wash.
CP-775W 60 min. VHS . . . . . $39.95

Singular Impressions: The Art of the Monotype
The National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution
A concise overview of the various processes used to create monotypes using different media and tools on a variety of surfaces including the dark field method, the additive process, stencils, oil and water-based paints, plus a brief history of monotypes.
CP-5365W VHS 9 min. (cc) . . . . . $29.95
The National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution
A concise overview of the various processes used to create monotypes using different media and tools on a variety of surfaces including the dark field method, the additive process, stencils, oil and water-based paints, plus a brief history of monotypes.
CP-5365W VHS 9 min. (cc) . . . . . $29.95

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