Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #12180 in VHS
• Released on: 2002-03-01
• Formats: Color, NTSC
• Number of tapes: 1
• Running time: 124 minutes

Customer Reviews

Not what I expected
After a lifelong fascination with art and no opportunity to test my artistic abilities, I decided to try this video. I expected something entirely different but followed each project carefully.I learned a lot.

Rather than teaching a particular project that ends up as a landscape or still life, this video teaches techniques. I didn't go out and buy the list of stuff on the back of the case -- but I did use items I had on hand, like sandpaper and q-tips. I also used the children's watercolor brushes and a slightly different-sized canvas but in all it worked out pretty well.

I learned a bunch of techniques from collages to finger painting to stenciling and stamping. The parts on glazing and on painted gel relief gave me some great ideas on how to get certain affects in other projects.

I admit to being a little disappointed at first because the way I interpreted the title led me to expect to learn to create a painting. My finished product was a painting, all right, but not exactly what I had in mind! However, when one doesn't know anything about a subject, one can't help but benefit from an overview of techniques like this video provides. I would definitely recommend it to the novice painter.

Besides, it was fun!

Great video money well spent
This is a must have for anyone who wants to get paint to behave the way you want it to. This is the best video on painting techniques, covering glazing, scumbling, gradations, mixed media and many other ways to apply paint. If you are an artist or want to learn more about how paint behaves and the possibilities of what you can do with acrylic paint, get this video. You can refer back to the various techniques again and again. This is not a video on how to paint trees or people, or flowers. This is a video on how to get paint to do what you want it to do, when you want to do it. As a creative director and an artist this video has helped me gain more control over the medium of acrylic painting.

Great video money well spent
This is a must have for anyone who wants to get paint to behave the way you want it to. This is the best video on painting techniques, covering glazing, scumbling, gradations, mixed media and many other ways to apply paint. If you are an artist or want to learn more about how paint behaves and the possibilities of what you can do with acrylic paint, get this video. You can refer back to the various techniques again and again. This is not a video on how to paint trees or people, or flowers. This is a video on how to get paint to do what you want it to do, when you want to do it. As a creative director and an artist this video has helped me gain more control over the medium of acrylic painting.