Series: Introduction to Flower Painting

Poppies

06/21/2012

~ Dixie1

Artists hands in the way and covered up all of the painting. I wish I had not bought it. Useless

Bad camera view = bad instructional video

06/14/2011

~ StudentOfLife

I was hoping to get a lot more out of this video than I did. The video camera was obviously put on a tri-pod behind the artist and all you could view throughout the entire video is the back of his hand. I wanted to see brush to paper to see his technique but sadly, did not. There were no close-ups or zoom ins, just a still camera.

The artist was fairly quiet throughout the video and when he did explain what he was doing I couldn't see it because his hand was in the way. I cannot recommend you spend your money on this video. You would do just as well to look at a picture and try to figure it out on your own. The audio was mediocre, but I had a bit of trouble understanding his words but that must be our language differences.

Judging from the few videos I've viewed on Mindbites so far, I feel this video should be re-done by a more professional cameraman.

watercolour pencils.

11/17/2009

~ MRS

Excellent, easy to follow instruction.

Below are the descriptions for each of the lessons included in the series:

• Flower painting 1 - Prim Roses

  Here I demonstrate the traditional methods of delicate washes and glazing wet over dry with blending. Using wet in wet for the background.

• Flower painting 1-Periwinkles

  Delicate watercolour washes and blending, with the use of some wet in wet and graduated colour.

• Flower painting 1- Loose Prim Roses

  After painting the same composition more traditionally I then move into a looser style.

• Flower painting 1-Daffodils

  Another favourite spring flower of many? Easily over worked and made dull, here I show step by step traditional methods to delicately paint wet next to wet, wet into wet and glaze using luminous transparent watercolours freshly. Finishing with a loose dark against light background.

• Flower painting 1-Snow Drops

  The use of "masking fluid", wet in wet plus wet over dry methods in watercolour flower painting.

• Flower painting 1-Peach Blossom

  Enlarging the flowers and using, washes, glazes and blending in watercolour to paint these pretty pink blooms.

• Flower painting 1 - Delphiniums

  Flower painting 1 - Painting wondeful vibrant blue Delphiniums in pastel over acrylic inks.

• Flower painting 1-Dandelions and Dasies

  My fiancees favourite of the series! Aerial and linear perspective, a broad field full of bright dandelions and daisies, use of masking fluid and brush texture.

• Flower painting 1-Field of Flowers

  With the use of masking fluid and brushwork, making a complicated and detailed painting of a meadow full of flowers is possible and simple! Daisies, blue cornfowers with pink clover etc.

• Flower painting 1-Water Color Pencils

  The delicate use of watercolour pencils, drawing with them and use of water with and over them to blend and paint. Bluebells.

• Flower Painting 1 - Rose pt. 1 of 3

  Flower painting 1 - Part 1 of 3 painting a rose in watercolour.

• Flower Painting 1 - Prt. 2 of 3 - Rose

  Flower painting 1 - Part 2 of 3 - How to paint a Rose in watercolour.

• Flower Painting 1 - Prt. 3 of 3 - Rose

  Flower painting 1 - Part 3 of 3 - A rose in watercolour

• Flower painting 1 - Poppies

  A favourite subject of many? Here I paint some poppies in France with traditional wet in wet, wet next to dry methods using only fresh transparent methods.

• Flower painting 1 - Sunflowers

  Painting bright cheerful sunflowers using watercolour.

Supplementary Files:

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