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Brian Bennett is President of the Royal Institute of Oil Painters. Brian recently retired from full time teaching so that he could concentrate on his painting. His work in oils is admired by many and as President of the Royal Institute of Oil Painters takes an active role in encouraging artists to make the most of his chosen medium. He is particularly keen on using a palette knife in addition to brushwork.
Brian Bennett demonstrates the technique of working with painting knives, and produces a picture of the sun rising through early morning mist.
£12.95
1 hour
Brian Bennett paints a landscape of characteristic Chiltern scenery with a foreground of the typical wild flowers to be found growing on the escarpment in the late summer.
£12.95
1 hour 30 minutes
Working on site, Brian Bennett demonstrates the development of a characteristic Chiltern landscape painted on a day in early summer, from the initial laying-in to the completed picture.
£14.95
1 hour 42 minutes
In this demonstration Brian is painting in the garden of a friend. He lives in a charming and very old cottage in Hertfordshire and has promised to keep his excessively amiable dog out of the way. It is a blustery day - some strong sunshine in between rather menacing rain clouds.
£14.95
1 hour 10 minutes
Barbara paints and demonstrates flowers, landscapes and portraits in oil, watercolour and pastel. Renowned for her flower paintings which grew from her husband's interest in gardens. A member of the Royal Institute, Society of Botanical Artists and the Society of Women Artists. Regularly contributes to The Artist and Leisure Painter. She is arguably England's most famous flower painter.
Here we have the essence of flowers, painted with as few strokes as is possible in order to create the full impression of their loveliness It is done on a paper that is already tinted. This provides a background giving tone and even colour to assist in the ultimate product.
£14.99
1 hour 40 minutes
Here we have the essence of daffodils, painted with as few strokes as possible in order to create the full impression of their loveliness. It is done on a paper that is already tinted. This provides a background giving true and even colour to assist in the ultimate product.
£14.99
2 hours
David is a most experienced teacher and tutor of adult groups. His Dedham Hall courses are for general painting, pen, pencil and pastel drawing , watercolour , oils and acrylics are all catered for. Landscape, plant and still life tuition are available as desired. David welcomes a variety of age and ability from beginners to very advanced students.
This beautiful video provides a model for you both in the studio and a lovely springtime setting. Among many poses there are attractive reflections in the lakes; wild flowers in profusion; wonderful tree stumps; and views bathed in soft spring sunshine.This video gives great scope for creating many interesting and beautiful pictures
£24.95
2 hours
This beautiful video shows dancers rehearsing in a landscape as an inspiration for the demonstration painting. David depicts many of his lovely pictures of young dancers, including pens, pencil and watercolour compositions, David teaches a great deal about techniques, materials, figure drawing and watercolour painting. His refined and elegant draughtsmanship shows freedom of line and expression. The dancers are courtesy of the Folkstone School for Girls.
£14.95
1 hour 47 minutes
This video is full of beautiful studies of the model on camera and showing the paintings developing from the first marks to completion. Several studies are painted in order to show a variety of poses and methods of watercolour. Attractive completed studies of other models are also shown to help extend the tuition in this attractive and informative video.
£14.95
2 hours 50 minutes
This video is an exploration of how to do figure drawing, showing a number of methods and techniques. A variety of excellent examples are shown and several demonstration drawings give an insight into the process. Drawings of the nude have been an important part of the education of great artists and this video helps to show the fascinating process of depicting the model.
£14.95
2 hours 48 minutes
Starting with chosing suitable poses the video shows the development of the picture to completion. This video is full of opportunities to learn. David Embry is a highly experienced tutor in this medium and his demonstrations of materials and techniques are shown to advantage so that it would be possible to paint along with this video using "pause and rewind".
£14.95
2 hours 30 minutes
A fascinating guide to the methods, materials and techniques of acrylic painting.
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3 hours
David Embry clearly explains suitable methods of using the paints, and demonstrates aspects of colour mixing. He also shows examples and produces two demonstration paintings, which show different aspects of design composition and mood.
THE LANDSCAPE is a freely painted beach scene showing atmospheric weather conditions and recession caused by the mixing of colours into the distance
THE STILL LIFE is richly painted in a contrasting and more detailed style.
David Embry has considerable knowledge of the capabilities of acrylics and thus makes a very useful addition to his popular demonstrations.
2 hours 50 minutes
£14.95
The perspective of reflections is explained at the start of the demonstration and then a landscape showing trees and a pool is painted in acrylics.
£12.95
1 hour 30 minutes
David demonstrates acrylics while developing several paintings, one showing the use of a model, others landscape and imaginative ideas. He shows a variety of subjects and techniques using many examples for his own work and that of other fine artists using acrylics. This video contains a great wealth of ideas for picture making and composition, combined with the use of observation and imagination.
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1 hour 54 minutes
This landscape is an imaginative re-creation of a scene in the North Downs of Kent. The acrylic painting of moonlit hills, fields and trees contains hints of the work of the 19th century visionary painter Samuel Palmer.
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1 hour 29 minutes
This video explains and demonstrates a wide range of drawing methods from simple beginnings to advanced techniques. The viewer is encouraged to learn from a series of fine original works by Whistler, Palmer and a number of other outstandingly good artists. A wealth of examples of fine drawings by David Embry showing the use of many subjects and materials, also helps make this video highly instructive and interesting.
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1 hour 40 minutes
David Embry produces a snowscape with hidden meanings and with a surprising twist at the end. It is possible to read the final picture as an analogy of a journey through life through gateways. Even in a rapid demonstration there is considerable complexity of composition.
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1 hour 30 minutes
David Embry produces a summer landscape in the context of a studio demonstration.
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1 hour 20 minutes
David Embry has produced this video to enable you to do life drawing at a time when you do not have a model available.
Rosie holds many different poses to give you excellent opportunities for picture making. This attractive model can help you produce a variety of beautiful drawings and paintings.
For each pose the whole figure is shown and many close up shots are included so that you can check details. Opportunity is given to deal with proportions useful video.
£24.95
2 hours
David Embry gives a great deal of information about acrylic painting and gives accomplished demonstrations of two landscapes and two beach scenes.
These could be used to 'PAINT ALONG WITH' or you could try 'VARIATION ON THE PICTURES' if you wished.
Every stage is shown in detail and the pictures are varnished and framed.
David also shows examples of other acrylic landscapes to give an even richer display of methods of work and range of compositions.
£19.95
3 hours
This video contains a wealth of tuition and examples of landscape drawing and painting with trees as the major component. Pencil, charcoal, pen and ink, watercolour and mixed media are all shown in a variety of styles.
Examples by J.S.Cotman, John Ward CBE, and John Doyle, President of the Royal Watercolour Society, and other fine artists enrich the experience.
David Embry gives several demonstrations and shows many examples of his own drawings and paintings.
This video is crammed full of interest, enjoyment and information.
2 hours 58 mins
£19.95
This attractive young model poses nude, so that you can work at times when you do not have a model available. Following a short instructional section there are many poses to enable you to practise or produce beautiful drawings and paintings.
A few outdoor scenes are included amongst a wide variety of excellent pictures. Some are simple poses included with complex compositions using a mirror. The full scene and details are shown with most poses.
It is a beautiful and useful video.
1 hour 40 minutes
£24.95
This film is full of information, ideas and lovely images. There is a wealth of fine examples for you to learn from, using a wide range of methods and materials, including pencil, pastel. watercolour, pen and ink and mixed media.
Tuition and demonstrations are important parts of this film. There are many beautiful sections showing lovely models for you to draw, perhaps using the pause button on your tape machine. It is interesting to see how the various models are enabled to help you find attractive views of face and person.
There is enjoyment in just looking at these sections.
2 hours 22 minutes
£14.95
David enables you to enjoy extending the variety of your methods and increasing the quality, interest and beauty of your paintings. You can learn from splendid examples by leading watercolour artists and other fine painters. David gives demonstrations and shows many varied examples of his own work. There is much information about the colours and materials and how to use them. This video is enjoyable and inspiring for a range of artists from beginner to very accomplished painters.
David encourages an open-minded approach in that you can develop your own style.
2 hours 50 minutes
£19.95
Margaret is recognised as one of the leading Pastellists of to-day. She is Vice-President of the Societe des Pastellists de Francais and a member of the English Pastel Society. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. She is highly acclaimed on both sides of the Channel.
This is the first time a woman has been elected to this prestigious post, and demonstrates how popular her work has become. Her brilliant observation of light and the subtle tones of her painting have been compared to Vermeer as well as to the master of pastel painting, Maurice Quentin de la Tour.
In recent years she has also built up a growing reputation as a gifted oil painter, able to capture the light with the same facility as in her pastels.
Margaret first taught in Paris for the Societe des Pastellistes de Francais in 1993 and only in 1997 did she set time aside to teach here in this country. Her enthusiasm is infectious and her insght into the media and their possibilities make her an ideal tutor. Those who have had the opportunity to experience one of her rare courses have found it both exhilarating and exhausting! She is on hand at all times to encourage and help with advice, but also to inject a sense of fun and enjoyment into this sometimes frustrating occupation.
In this pastel demonstration Margaret shares with us the more painterly approach to pastels. Building up layer upon layer she captures the sunlight and the brisk breeze that fills the sails of these majestic Thames barges.
£24.95
2 hours 30 minutes
In this video the artist grapples with the fascinating charm of Venice. The brilliant sunlight and strong shadows, the structures of old red brick and stone bridges. Using a wet on wet oil painting technique with an underpainting of acrylic paint Margaret brings Venice alive.
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2 hours 30 minutes
In this video the atmosphere of Venice is captured using Margaret's unique painting technique with pastel. The familiar buildings are reduced to a low backdrop, the light breaking through evening clouds and being reflected by moving water conjure the majestic feel that is Venice.
£24.95
2 hours
Malcolm Jarvis trained at Camborne and St. Martins Schools of Art and worked in the advertising industry until the late 80's. Now a professional artist he has many years experience teaching in Adult and Further Education and as a demonstrator for Derwent watercolour and pastel pencils. His subjects are primarily landscapes inspired by the wide skies of his adopted East Anglia which are rendered in his specialist medium of soft pastel. He exhibits regularly and his paintings are in private collections in both the UK and USA.
Malcolm retains a keen interest in drawing and enjoys teaching others especially beginners and intermediates to draw and paint.
This video opens with an explanation of the history of pastel and its properties whilst referring to some of the famous artists who worked in this medium from the 18th Century to the present day. Different papers and boards for pastel painting are discussed as well as the pastels themselves, suggested colour ranges and helpful ancillary aids that would prove useful to the beginner. Malcolm then demonstrates the different kinds of mark that can be made with pastel (at a pace that will enable the viewer to work at the same time) before encouraging the viewer to work alongside him as he produces a complete painting of a typical East Anglian landscape using many of the techniques and marks previously demonstrated.
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2 hours 18 minutes
Terry was born at Clacton-on-sea in 1945 and has lived in East Anglia all his life. He has his own gallery in Dedham High Street and has exhibited at many galleries in East Anglia along with the Royal Watercolour Society Open Exhibitions at Bankside Gallery, London. He has painted many commissions amongst them work for the 40th Field Artillery, Eastern Electricity, Lockwood Calendars and Trust House Forte along with private commissions. Self taught, the artist demonstrates his way of portraying the River Stour at Dedham, in Constable Country, from a working drawing. Also shown on the video are views of Dedham and the gallery with many finished watercolours and drawings.
This video features the artist Terry Jeffrey who lives and paints in the Vale of Dedham, and shows him demonstrating alongside the River Stour in Constable Country making a drawing to use later at a live demonstration in the studio.
£12.95
1 hour 40 minutes
This video shows the drawing of an old HMV gramophone with its horn. The artist comments on the problems and aims of the drawing from a blank sheet of paper to the finished work, explaining his technique along the way. Also demonstrated is a fast drawing of a jug and bowl, and a jar of brushes to show pen and pencil.
£12.95
1 hour 16 minutes
This video shows the artist demonstrating his technique for using hot pressed, not rough, rough and cartridge paper, using both pen and pencil. Altogether there are five demonstrations using paintings previously executed by him, including painting from a photograph.
£14.95
2 hours
Pat Jobson is a past president of the Wapping group of Artists, and of the Langham Sketching Club.
Seascape is movement and light, Pat Jobson demonstrates a working method. From the choice of paper, step by step through the placing of the design first in monochrome to the development in full colour. Finally some other examples are shown with explanations.
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1 hour 40 minutes
James Maberly was born in Kenya in 1956 and was brought up in Zimbabwe. In 1975 he attended the Royal Military academy of Sandhurst and was commissioned in the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards. In 1980 he returned to Zimbabwe and worked in industry for eight years. In 1988 he returned to England to study art at the Ipswich School of Art and the Norwich School of Art. Since then he has been making sculpture from his studio and holding regular exhibitions both locally and nationally. Since 1993 he has lectured in sculpture at the University College Suffolk in Ipswich.
This video gives an introduction to sculpture and to the proportion and materials necessary for simple inexpensive and yet highly effective modelling using plastecine, a material used by many famous sculptors. It covers quick one minute warm-up drawings, some discussion on anatomy and a look at the model from different angles, the construction of an armature or skeleton, followed by the physical construction of two separate figures in different poses. The video concludes with ideas on casting and sums up the whole tutorial.
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2 hours 40 minutes
Leslie Marsh began his working career as a commercial artist. Starting as a lettering artist he progressed to package design and exhibition stands until eventually specialising in technical illustration, producing section and exploded air brush drawings of mechanical and engineering subjects for which he was elected to the Society of Industrial Illustrators. Further qualifications to the Society of Practitioners in Advertising earned him promotion from Studio Manager to Art Director. An admirer of the watercolours of Edward Seago and Edward Wesson he was fired with an ambition to paint watercolour in the impressionistic style and eventually made the break from commercial art to become a practising artist in this medium. His work can be seen throughout Kent, Sussex and Essex where he also tutors at various venues throughout the year, in addition to running his own classes in his home city of Canterbury.
The first demonstration is a painting of the rear of the Barn Studio used by students at Dedham Hall. Leslie's method of understatement and of liquid colour laid on with large brushes is a lesson in itself. The second demonstration is ink and watercolour of a barge at Pin Mill showing the sensitive approach by drawing with a stick of wood rather than pen
£12.95
1 hour 22 minutes
A double demonstration of first a snow scene in Lausanne showing the use of white paper and the colour that may be observed in snow scenes. The second is a contrasting painting of early spring in this country. In both paintings Leslie shows his simple approach to the subjects with his clear transparent watercolour.
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1 hour 15 minutes
A double demonstration of a village street scene and secondly, boats in a quiet backwater. Both are executed in his impressionistic style, completely unlaboured with beautiful transparent washes. Leslie captures the quiet calm of a Kent village street in ‘Nargate St. Littlebourne’ and the peace and tranquillity of ‘Grove Ferry’, a favourite place for fishermen and painters.
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1 hour 45 minutes
This video deals with drawing and painting barges, boats and backwaters. It begins with an introduction to sketches of boats, followed by two demonstrations: Barges at Pin Mill, River Orwell in ink and watercolour and a water colour painting of an estuary off the River Fowey, Cornwall.
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1 hour 30 minutes
This video is aimed at simplifying colour mixing beginning with the mixing of primary colours (red, yellow and blue) and showing several paintings describing how the colours were achieved, finishing with two demonstrations.
£14.95
1 hour 35 minutes
In this video Leslie shows his approach to painting buildings starting with some black and white sketches, photographs of his paintings and a very recent painting of St Peters St., Canterbury. He ends with a demonstration painting of cottages in Brook St, Dedham.
£12.95
1 hour 35 minutes
This video contains four demonstrations:
A summer sky, A winter sky, A rainy sky, An overcast/stormy sky.
£12.95
1 hour 30 minutes
This video contains three demonstrations:
Looking towards St. Giorgio Maggiore - The wind and threatening rain allowed a quick sketch before escaping to complete indoors
The Bridge of Sighs - Again the traffic of barges and gondolas allowed a drawing to be made prior to finishing the painting indoors.
St. Mark's Square - This posed problems, not with weather conditions but with people in front of us, to the left and right of us and behind us. So again after the preliminary drawing we escaped again to complete indoors.
However they all demonstrate capturing the salient points in pencil and, although completing the picture indoors, Leslie has endeavoured to keep the painting in an understated manner, as it would have appeared completed on sight. All three videos are produced exactly as demonstrated and the watching time is exactly the time taken on each subject.
£14.95
2 hours 48 minutes
Leslie has a reputation for patience and a sympathetic approach to beginners. In this video he starts with advice on materials, brushes, pencils, paper etc., and goes on gently guiding you through mixing colours, applying water colour to paper, and demonstrating landscapes, seascapes and snow scenes. An information packed video for beginners in watercolour.
£14.95
2 hours 22 minutes
This video explains elementary perspective by simplifying the subject in using the plainest possible language and easy to understand illustrations. It is aimed to dispel the mysteries that so often terrify beginners. The video is in two parts. The first deals with linear perspective and in the second Leslie shows paintings illustrating ariel and linear perspective combined; ending with a demonstration of water colour at Pin Mill.
£14.95
1 hour 30 minutes
This video showing begins with four recent paintings:
1 & 2 Early diners in a restaurant.
A bandsaw shop.
An elegant drawing room.
This is followed by a demonstration of an antique shop showing his method of an impressionistic approach, to capture atmosphere, rather than a highly detailed drawing and painting.
£12.95
1 hour 20 minutes
This video is an introduction to using ink with watercolour, popularly known as ‘Line and Wash’. The first part shows the method of sketching with a water soluble ink, finishing with a demonstration using this medium.The second part deals with the best known method of line and wash, (namely waterproof ink or ‘Indian ink’ as it is often called). Leslie shows his method of using pen, garden cane and in fact any sort of wood suitable for drawing with. Shown also are a few paintings of different approaches to this medium, finishing with a demonstration of the yacht and boat builders yard at Pin Mill.
£10.95
1 hour 12 minutes
Don is a founder member of the Scottish Ruralist and is Principal Teacher of Art and Design.
Don McNeil demonstrates the exciting qualities of the juicy and versatile quick drying oil colour. Through a series of simple exercises he encourages the student to build up confidence and to enjoy making marks with a variety of brushes, including one metre long ones. He shows his own work and that of his students to back up his ideas.
£12.95
1 hour 42 minutes
Judith Milne has loved drawing and painting since she was a small child. She spent five years at the Birmingham College of Art and Crafts studying a wide range of media and art techniques, gaining her NDD in Graphical Design and Book Illustration, after which she obtained her degree ATD.
From there she went into teaching, working with the 11-18 year age range, which she found very rewarding. While her children were small she worked on freelance book illustration and developing her love of botanical subjects.
Judith paints in watercolour, her subjects always being worked to actual size and she pays particular attention to colour, shape and detail. Although her main interest lies in painting flowers, she also paints town and landscapes in pen, ink and wash, and watercolours.
Her first book, Flowers in Watercolour was published in May 1992 by B.T. Battisford and is a guide to painting flowers in watercolour, in a botanical and free style. Her second book Painting Wild Flowers was published in January 1995 and a further book on the subject is in the pipeline.
She is a regular contributor of articles on painting for Leisure Painter Magazine and is a Royal Horticultural Society Medallist.
Constable Country Videos have published a number of videos by Judith on step-by-step painting of flowers and landscapes. Over the past few years she has taken painting courses and holds day courses regularly in Reading and Worcester and residential courses at many venues throughout the United Kingdom. She also demonstrates to art societies and holds workshops for them.
Judith is a full time artist and tutor, exhibiting in London and the provinces and has a number of solo exhibitions.
Judith Milne started her own business ‘Miart’ in 1988, publishing greetings cards and prints of her own work. Her paintings are to be found in collections in this country and abroad and she also undertakes private commissions.
This demonstration is designed to show a simple free approach to flower painting. It shows a step by step development of the painting, with commentary on materials, colour and techniques throughout the demonstration as discussed in her book, Flowers in Watercolour. Judith Milne also paints in a more detailed style.
£14.95
1 hour 50 minutes
This painting of a group of flowers once again shows a step by step approach to a free painting, with discussion on colour mixing, obtaining a subtle range of colours and the effect that tone has on your image.
£14.95
1 hour 49 minutes
Judith shows step by step instruction of the painting of a rose from the first linear pencil drawing to the final touches of the completed picture, with description of technique and colour added.
£14.95
2 hours 4 minutes
This is an instructional video of a Surrey Garden. It begins from a light pencil sketch, seeing the painting develop from its first washes through to its completion, with a description of technique and colours used, finishing with a gallery, some of the Artist's garden paintings.
£14.95
2 hours
Trees are an important part of landscape painting. These demonstrations show structural development of painting trees during the various seasons, and painting out features to heighten the awareness of shape, form and colour.
£14.95
1 hour 45 minutes