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"While our Western art culture disintegrated into abstraction and paint thrown on canvases with no content, the Russians and Chinese continued the study and practice of classical painting. With the easing of tensions between China and the West, many of the Chinese, trained in the classical style practiced by the Russians, immigrated to the United States and brought their long-lost expertise to America.
Zhaoming Wu is one of those artists, whose knowledge and talents merge into a convoluted path from the Nineteenth Century Masters down to us, today. He is currently one of the most valued faculty members of the San Francisco Academy of Art, and he instructs and mentors artists in the graduate program in representative painting and drawing."
(about 280 minutes)
This video was added to our catalog on December 07, 2007 in Arts & Crafts::Painting: Oil.
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Excellent video. He is a true master. He is sometimes difficult to understand but there are subtitles. It starts a little slow, but you can learn a lot from watching him paint. Wonderful quality video.
I had been awaiting the Zhaoming Wu DVD for a couple of months and I was thrilled to get it in the mail. Sorry to say, and perhaps this just reflects on my poor ear or impatience, but ..... I was distracted from the painting demonstration by my difficulty in following the gentleman's Chinese accent. He was dubbed in English sometimes but not all the time, which would have worked out better. This would have been a greater disappointment had I purchased the DVD. Overall, this man's art is beautiful..
An outstanding DVD! It was well worth the wait.
Excellent video. As stated he is difficult to understand but he makes some very good points if you are willing to make the extra effort to understand him.
I'm pretty impatient as well, but watched much of the video on 2X speed - it was actually easier to understand at times! Not my favorite painting, but did follow the entire process from preliminary sketch to completion.
Great instruction, a little hard to understand but worth renting. He explains the four stages of his painting process. Wow... puts his brushes in water to keep them from drying out.
Exceptionally informative, especially in understanding his remarkable brushwork and creation of glowing light....
This was a huge disappointment. I thought it would be about painting a figure. However the only human anatomy shown was part of an upper arm and part of a foot. The video was devoted to painting a pile of white rags in the right corner of the canvas. C.L.M
His English was little hard to understand. Otherwise he explains precisely his methods and his technique and what he wants with his painting. The painting was done beautifully. I learned a lot.
His accent was difficult to understand, which is a pity because he has very important and useful things to say. He has a great skill in painting and describing his thoughts as he paints. Wu speaks with in a focus, direct, and disciplined manner that most definitely inspired me. Worth the rental
Having been an admirer of Zhaoming Wu for some time, I knew that a painting video by him would have to be good, even being aware that some previous viewers had trouble understanding him. My response to that is "just watch him paint - that's all you have to do!" I personally had no trouble understanding him. In addition, I thought the camerawork was well done. A very, very informative film about an extremely talented artist. I have been enthusiastically telling all my artist friends about it. This is one of the first videos I have rented from your site and I will be recommending it as a quality alternative to the much more expensive artist workshops. Thank you very much. Charles Morris
Outstanding master-level video. I highly recommend it to serious artists.
I agree with the last review. It was a very informative DVD, even for advanced painters. Nothing is forgotten, how to treat the photo reference, the palette, the brushes, the composition, the design, the support and the medium, etc. I don't understand why English speaking people have so much difficulty understanding Mr.Wu. I'm primarily French and I understood all what he said! Even if my brain had to translate to English at the same time!
So please, make an effort and listen carefully, if I can understand, everyone can, I assure you!
Congratulations Mr. Wu, you really did the job!
I enjoyed the video very much - I would like to see more from him.
Thank You!
Oh my gosh.. Zhaoming Wu is a genius. Definitely rent this video.. I wish I could afford to buy it - it is so fantastic. Some people had some difficulty with his speech. Honestly language was no barrier he was really easily understood. And his painting speaks for itself. The work is one of the finest paintings I've ever seen in all my years. The camera work was impeccable. He is a slow painter and offers some excellent instruction and reasoning for what he is doing. This DVD taught me so much..even though I viewed it 3x I wish that I had kept it to re-rent for another 2 weeks at least. It's stunning and the finished painting is beyond magnificent. Carol L.
This was an exceptionally good video. I rent a lot of videos and this is one of the best.
Would like more of his videos. Easy to follow with good instruction and examples of light and shadow, line, soft and hard.
My son and I are professional artists. We have rented many films and are particularly fond of Richard Schmid. Mr. Wu's work is almost as good and his explanation and demo of the alla prima approach is somehow better than Schmid's. The subject was not the best and the browns on the palette appeared gray other than that we learned a great deal from the film and recommend it as one of the best !!
Great instruction, a little hard to understand but worth renting. He explains the four stages of his painting process. Wow... puts his brushes in water to keep them from drying out.
This is an excellent video if you want to see the process of thinking, approach, and all the steps necessary to achieve a great painting. I highly recommend it and the painting is beautiful. Covers all aspects of painting.
He blew me away!
He explains the 4 step process he goes through.
First, his thought process and design process. He creates a little Notan/Value, and eye direction towards the focal point. Then, the 2 dementional painting, followed by 3D and more details toward the focal points and lastly the final stages.
I could not believe how much detail and careful consideration he takes when painting this painting. It was beautiful. He really blew me away. As he paints he lets you know the process he is taking and why he is doing it. So he has an accent, you get the general idea of what he means by watching him. This video is almost 5 hours long, so I had to divide me watching him.
Awesome video!
I absolutely LOVED this video!! Zhaoming is a Living Master in my eyes. His process is based on a lifetime of honing his visual skills. He begins with the abstract elements of the visual arts: the placement of lines, big shapes, value relationships and shows how to create from these simple elements, a living, breathing figure! The process is not easy, as he uses his experience and talent to solve problems and make decisions that all contribute to a very successful work of art that conveys the mood and feelings that he aspires to as he works from a photo reference and images on his computer screen. I recommend this video to all levels of proficiency - from beginners to advanced artists, there is much to learn watching Zhaomomg! I will rent it again!
Great concepts on oil painting. Instructor is very adept at explaining the big picture in terms of painting.
I had a challenge understanding the Japanese accent in the beginning, but that improved as the lesson went on. The instruction was very good, he covered a lot of ground, and I particularly liked his arrangement of the subject. All around, a good DVD program.
