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Videos, Gadgets & Brushes!
NEW!!! A Wine & Cheese Study
Online Classroom
Sign up and pay online and receive a 2 hour lesson, a pdf file that includes a full lesson (line drawing, instructions, 2 photos and color swatches) With this lesson, you will learn:
- Trace and "prove" a design for symmetry
- Brush loading and blending
- How to create a proper value scale for each object
- Explanation of light source and eye level
- Glazing
- How to paint glass and theory behind it all
- How to create texture through the shine process
- Shadows
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Free Video on using Genesis Paints.
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Download free conversion chart, usage handbook and color chart
The Knitting Girl (24" x 36" on canvas) by Mary Kingslan Gibilisco, BFA, CDA. A reproduction of a William Bouguereau Original. Permanent Collection of the Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, NE Omaha Seminar November 6-9, 2008. $300
Learn the history and techniques of William Bouguereau. The class will visit the actual painting at the Omaha Joslyn Museum (if on display). Mary has a minor in Art History and is excited to teach one of her favorite painter's style. View larger image on the schedule
"The Soul of the Rose". - Future Seminar.
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"Flow Blue with Lemons"
"Learn to Paint a Pink Rose"
"Learn to Mix Color and How Value Creates Form"
"Drawing, Shading & Shadows"
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Online Learning Workshop:Four Colored Bottle Study
1 hour and 45 minute video lesson, a pdf file that includes a full lesson (line drawing, instructions, 2 photos and color swatches)
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Paint a serenely beautiful Peeled Orange Still Life from the very first brush strokes through the finishing touches. You’ll also be able to download in PDF form, a lesson packet that includes:
- written instructions
- placement guides
- color swatches
- photo of the piece
- full color step-by-step of the water drop lesson
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conversion list for either Winsor & Newton or Archival Oil
New Online Learning - 5 Classes Available now
Order now.... "Teacup Still Life" $14.95
With this lesson, you will learn:
- Use of the "Safe-T" Compass
- Brush loading and blending
- How to create a proper value scale for each object
- Explanation of light source and eye level
- Creating the look of porcelain and gold
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"Lemons & Flow Blue China Still Life"
With this lesson, you will learn:
- Proper surface preparation
- Trace and "prove" a design for symmetry
- Brush loading and blending
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How to create a proper value scale for each object
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Explanation of light source and eye level
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Glazing
Available now......Drawing, Shading & Shadows video.
- Learn 1 point and 2 point linear perspective
- Learn how to correct linear perspective mistakes
- Explore ellipses at all eye levels and how to use an ellipse template
- Learn to draw complicated shapes using cubes and spheres
- Learn how light affects objects and how to shade
- Learn the characteristics of shadows and how to plot out shadows
- Examine paintings to determine the eye level and perspective
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Learn to Mix Color and How Value Creates Form
- How do Ann & Mary create all of the different values, intensities & colors using only 9 colors?
- How can you create the illusion of space and volume in a painting?
- How can you become independent of pre-mixed colors?
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Paint a Pink Rose
- Basic brush loading and blending
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How to create a proper value scale for a pink object
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Structure of a rose as compared to a sphere and a cylinder
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Proper brushes and brush work used in flower painting
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How to create ruffles on the outside edges of petals
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Why and where to place tints, accents, and turning colours
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How to enhance a rose with finishing touches
"What a great online lesson - I have watched it several times. This is a great idea. I know that you will do well with this. I will share your site with my friends, and I know the word will spread. Arlene, Stockton, CA"
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Video movies are not suitable for dial-up connections,
Web-TV or very weak wireless connections.
- Sign up and pay online and receive a video lesson, for Genesis or Oils and a pdf file that includes a full lesson (line drawing, instructions, photos and color swatches).
- Other lessons will be available once a month.
- After payment is received you will receive an email with your login and password. Access to the online class is for 30 days from when you sign up.
Watch short clips from Online Classes and DVD's 
