These are free to watch and each short video covers a single art tip or instruction. The videos vary in length from about a minute to almost 10 minutes long. They are made by knowledgeable art materials makers like Winsor & Newton, Liquitex, Golden Acrylics, Faber-Castell, Schmincke, Sennelier, Marabu, Derwent, and Daler-Rowney and cover topics like varnishing a painting, creating texture with acrylics and botanical illustration with coloured pencils as well as showing how to use speciality products by the manufacturer.

There is a very short video on how to best sharpen a pencil, videos that answer common questions about popular techniques such as using acrylic medium to transfer an image and making acrylics look like encaustics and videos from brush manufacturers Escoda and Da Vinci that show how to create effects with brushes.

Go take a look and see what all there is to learn about!

Here is a demo showing ways to use the new Derwent Inktense Blocks:

Powerful Watercolour Landscapes: Tools for Painting with Impact

Powerful Watercolor Landscapes!
Date: May 25th 2011
Time: 1pm EDT
Cost: FREE
Register for webinar here.

In this FREE online event, join artist and long-time workshop instructor, Catherine Gill as she shares her strategies for interpreting the landscape in new ways, giving you the tools you need to create landscapes with impact, before you even pick up a brush! Catherine, along with writer, Beth Means, will pull lessons from their North Light book, Powerful Watercolor Landscapes, to help you:
-break down a landscape into manageable parts
-design a strong painting with shapes and values
-make color the heart & soul of your painting
-mix a wide range of greens
-and more!
These strategies can be applied to working on location and from photos–helping make your paintings powerful, both in design and color. The powerpoint presentation wraps up with a Q&A session where you’ll have a chance to ask Catherine and Beth questions.
Everyone who registers for this event will receive a FREE recording of this event.

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Enjoy Painting Catalonia courses, managed by Angela Barbi, offer unique painting holidays with world-famous tutors in selected venues: from the Costa Brava in Spain to Provence in the south of France. The locations are very carefully chosen with the artist in mind to inspire creativity. Subject matter ranges from medieval towns to dramatic seascapes, sun-drenched landscapes and fishing villages. The courses are suitable for beginners and advanced students, for individuals, couples or groups.
For more information go to the EPC website.

The website also has some useful articles and video clips by the tutors.

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A course with Alvaro Castagnet

Ann Oram Art Course

Ann Oram is a popular art teacher in Fife. She has just released the schedule for her winter courses. The courses are for small groups of students – usually around 6 per class – and include complete beginners and more advanced students. Working with small groups, Ann can teach a great deal more and give more personal tuition. Prepare to work hard, but have fun while you learn.

Click here to go to Ann’s website.

The subjects include: coloured pencil, watercolour, oils, acrylics, drawing, pastels and collage. The teachers are well known and most of the DVDs are over an hour long. They are multi-region and will play on both NTSC and PAL TVs so they will play fine in Europe. These 15 titles are a great value at only £12.99 each.

Click Here
to go to this range of DVDs on the Jackson’s website.

The addition of this range of DVDs brings our selection of art instruction DVDs to over 120 titles.
Click Here for the DVD department at Jackson’s Art Supplies.

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The Artsbowl website artsbowl.com is the brainchild of Daniel Lingham, a sculptor with an entrepreneurial flair. Daniel realised there was a need for an online platform where small independent course providers and the more established arts organisations could promote their creative courses to far greater effect than simply having their own individual website – the idea came about after many hours were spent trying to promote his own stone sculpting workshops.

Artsbowl is a platform for anyone providing art classes, creative courses or arts based workshops to list their activities, share experiences and tips, create blogs and message others. It also provides opportunities for people attending the amazing variety of classes to share and discuss the workshops or classes they have been on.

Creative courses on Artsbowl come in a variety of forms, ranging from painting to pottery, sculpting, jewellery, creative writing and much more. Artsbowl’s ethos is to embrace creative learning in all of these fields and aims to attract a large community of creative individuals and organisations.

Artsbowl operates on an international scale. “We hope that artsbowl will enable people of all ages and abilities from around the world to find a creative outlet that is just right for them” says Daniel. “People look for creative activities for various reasons, ranging from personal enrichment, to searching for an alternative career path. You can find classes that meet any of these needs on artsbowl” he added.
You will also find all sorts of interesting blogs and articles on a range of topics related to creativity on the site. If you are passionate about your artistic pursuits, you are more than welcome to add your own blogs or comments on artsbowl.

Take a look at artsbowl.com, visit their Facebook page, or find them on Twitter.

artsbowl - a creative courses hub

Artsbowl members special offer at Jackson’s.

Hugo Grenville

For the past ten years, Studio Hugo Grenville has successfully run courses designed to help artists of all levels to break barriers and move forward within their studio practice. Highly regarded as a colourist painter in the Romantic tradition, drawing on such influences as Bonnard and Matisse, Hugo Grenville has built a reputation as an excellent tutor to students of all ages and backgrounds, with an ability to maintain sensitivity to individual interests and passions. There is an emphasis on understanding what it means to paint tonally, experiment with visual language, and re-interpret colour with relation to subject matter. In 2010 Hugo will be running 3 courses from his North London studio, housed in a converted former chocolate factory, with artists, ceramicists and designers working in the adjacent spaces. The large studio is light and airy, and well equipped with an extensive selection of monographs and exhibition catalogues, easels, and objects that make for fascinating subject matter.

Later on in the year Studio Hugo Grenville decamps to the Olhao Art School, Portugal. The art school is a converted townhouse, with studio spaces surrounding a cobble-stone courtyard. Mediterranean seascapes, Portuguese fishing markets and beautiful rustic coloured houses line the nearby streets; there is no end to the inspiration that this setting offers! It is testament to his strengths as a teacher that many students of Studio Hugo Grenville return year upon year to learn more about the painting process, and look back on their time in his company as ‘inspirational , challenging and really helped one to make big steps forward’ (a student of the ‘Understanding Colour ‘course, 2009)

Courses for 2010:
An Introduction to Oils,
9-11 June 2010 (lead tutor Lisa Freeman, mentored by Hugo Grenville)

The Nuts and Bolts of Picture Making: Tone, Composition and Visual Language
14 – 18th June, 2010

Understanding Colour
21-25th June, 2010

Portugal Courses: Colour in the Landscape
Part 1: The Figure in Landscape
2-8th October, 2010

Part 2: Interpreting Colour
10-16th October, 2010

One Day Workshop: ‘Structuring Your Life as an artist’
Held at Gallery 27, Cork Street, London on the 29th November, 2010

For more information please visit www.hugogrenville.com or call Lisa Freeman on 07764 500397 to request a brochure. The Hugo Grenville blog.

Hugo Grenville course

Hugo Grenville course

Here is an earlier post about her classes.