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The Classic Portrait DVD
This four hour video describes an
approach to portrait painting based on
a carefully organized plan involving
clear steps from monochromatic
underpainting to colored glazes. The
first day is devoted to grisaille which
establishes form and value and the
second day focuses on color which adds
life and vitality to the portrait.
Grinding Your Own Oil Paint
In this video, we take you through the
various steps of making your own oil paint
from mixing the pigment with linseed oil, to
grinding, to putting your paint into tubes.
DVD. Run time: 48 minutes.
There was a time before the invention of
paint tubes, when artists had to grind their
own oil paint. The advantage was that artists
could make their paints to suit their
personal preferences and working methods.
Living Craft
Living Craft is the result of over twenty
years of teaching, and over twelve years
of active research into the foundations
of older practice by working painter Tad
Spurgeon. It is about developing a
personal craft through the creative use
of traditional materials, and is based on
the recent findings of technical art
history, rather than the systems of the
twentieth century textbooks.
A Treatise on Painting
Compiled many years after his death
from numerous original manuscripts, A
Treatise on Painting is the principal
repository of Leonardo da Vinci’s
practical thoughts on the technique of
drawing and painting. It begins with
precise instructions on drawing the
human body and then moves on to
techniques of rendering motion.
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