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This step-by-step, easy to follow instructional DVD starts with wet-in-wet techniques to establish an underpainting. Then Susie adds the details! In addition to painting the colorful wildflowers, you will see two different methods for painting trees. As an added bonus Susie shares some tips for painting Bluebonnets, the Texas State Flower close-up.
No drawing experience necessary.
(about 107 minutes)
n this step-by-step, easy to follow instructional DVD. Susie Short uses wet-in-wet techniques to paint the stormy watercolor sky typical of those seen along the Oregon Coast. Next she demonstrates how to paint the headlands between layers of fog and mist. After some tips on composition, Susie adds the details to the landmark haystack rocks and the ocean's waves.
This DVD is packed with basic watercolor techniques. Great for new and experienced painters.
(about 76 minutes)
This video was added to our catalog on January 01, 2000 in Arts & Crafts::Painting: Watercolor.
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Susie's Bluebonnets and Love Oaks video is a rare 5-star. Susie does it, shows it without talking about it and waving a brush around before getting around to it, and you're painting along with her without getting bored. If a question occurs to you as you're viewing the video, chances are Susie will not only answer it, but be ahead of you. She knows her subject manner, too, and that includes not only the names of the trees and flowers but why they might be greener/thicker/whatever this year.
Don't you just hate it when the instructor comes back with a lot he did off camera and talks about how it was done? Susie does a small bit, but it's more of what she's been showing, so you aren't left wondering about anything.
The camera work is superb, too, Susie has no ax to grind with anyone or any method. She just paints, throws out some great asides and observations, and has you ready to do it, too.
A winner.
I ran it on my computer and the sound was a bit too low to really hear well. I have used other DVD's from SmartFlix and the sound was great, so I expect it was at Susie's end. She was my first art teacher and I owe her so much! Thanks for carrying her work.
Like her video on painting skies, this is a wonderful instruction video. It is slow enough for anyone to follow and her teaching style is pleasant. It works well for watercolor painters on any level.
If you like watercolor, you will like this DVD by artist Susie Short. I learned some new techniques that I have never tried such as Wet Media Acetate, to place over your underpainting. You can paint on the acetate, it gives you an opportunity to experiment, if you don't like the way it looks just wipe it off & start over. I like the fact that she uses a 1" stippling brush to make the leaves on an old Texas Live Oak Tree, it gives it wonderful texture. Susie, makes painting in watercolor look so easy. I love to paint Texas Bluebonnets, & I wanted to learn how in watercolor. I've tired already, & have applied some of her techniques. LC
