Product Description

This easy to follow step-by-step DVD is ideally suited for the beginner and advanced beginner who want to learn watercolor, drawing and color basics. Julie s unique method of teaching enables beginners and more advanced students to progress quickly. Her approach helps students understand that watercolor is a forgiving medium that is easy and fun to explore. A comprehensive learning tool for all ages, this DVD is an excellent resource for learning at home or for teaching in a classroom setting. The DVD contains the equivalent of 7 private lessons, including basic watercolor technique, color principles, drawing tips for landscapes, and a landscape watercolor demonstration using bright, expressive colors. The watercolor demonstration also shows how to correct areas of the painting, which students find extremely helpful! The DVD menu contains extras, such as drawing exercises and color mixing, a quick reference guide to Julie s watercolor method, composition tips, and a slide show of Julie s artwork. The DVD insert contains a supply list and a chart of the watercolor method showing watercolor s range of transparency on dry and wet paper.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #10841 in DVD
• Released on: 2007-05-02
• Formats: HiFi Sound, NTSC
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 64 minutes

-Sue Johnston, President of California Watercolor Association
"Julie carefully and methodically explains things that beginners have trouble with. Her water-to-paint ratio is very clearly explained."

- Charlotte Hjellum, watercolor student
"Julie has a genuine passion for teaching watercolor and giving her students as much personal attention and encouragement as possible."

About the Actor
Julie Cohn has been teaching all levels of watercolor painting for over 20 years. She earned her degrees in Fine Art, with a minor in Art History, at University of California, Berkeley, and California College of the Arts, Oakland, California. For many years she has studied with numerous masters of the watercolor medium. She demonstrates for many art organizations, juries shows, and takes many commissions. Her artwork has shown in a variety of locations across the nation.

Customer Reviews

Watercolor Wow!
Where else can you listen to Jazz and learn the basics of watercolor? Julie Cohn's CD is an uplifting, easy to learn and follow instructional DVD. In no time, you can learn techniques and apply them and create a beautiful, one-of-a-kind landscape painting. I also found the "extra" drawing tips, exercises and quick reference so valueable and helpful. My daughter (age 6) was learning along with me. We really enjoyed the slide show during dinner too! I have been painting watercolor for 10 years and learned more from this DVD and Julie Cohn than I have in any other class I have taken. This DVD is a must own!

Simple but useful
Let me start by saying I'm a beginner at watercolor painting. I've taken some lessons, and read many books, but I got to a point where there was something missing. What makes this DVD special, is the method of combining the degree of wetness of the paint with the degree of wetness of the paper. It sounds simple, but when you get it right, the paint really does dance. Once I realized what Ms. Cohn was saying, it totally changed the results I was getting. There is some stuff on color mixing and other odds and ends that are covered again and again elsewhere, but she had to put it in for completeness. This DVD was well worth the cost. I don't like the style of painting in the DVD, but the technique was great.

Very easy to follow
I had no art experience. I am having a blast with Julie's easy to follow instuctions. On the other hand my wife has taken several art classes. She is much more advanced,and has found Julie's instructions to be extremely beneficial. One of the major benefits is that you can keep going back to a concept that would be hard to do in a typical class setting.
Thank you Julie!!