Watercolorist's Essential Workshop - Composition with Gordon MacKenzie - DVD

Join Gordon MacKenzie and create exciting landscape paintings with unusual compositions. Learn techniques to portray rays of light filtering through a forest to the consistently varying curved lines that suggest wave movement. Create two dramatic watercolor landscapes from start to finish.

Create compelling landscape paintings with unusual compositions! Nature is filled with patterns that can be used to compose a picture, from the radial design of the sun peeking out from behind a tree to the consistently varying curved lines that suggest wave movement.

In this video demonstration, Gordon MacKenzie shares his painting techniques for using composition to enhance the impact of your work. You'll lift color from wet pigment to portray rays of light filtering through a forest and use a series of repeated, directional brushstrokes to emulate the seas. With this video, you'll be using composition to your advantage right away!

In this video, you'll:

• Work on two watercolor paintings from start to finish
• Paint landscape elements including water, skies, trees, fog, and distant land
• Discover watercolor techniques for wet-into-wet painting, lifting, glazing, and more
• Utilize more than a brush to paint--try a sponge for natural textures!

About Gordon MacKenzie

In his long career as an art educator, Gordon MacKenzie taught students from kindergarten to university level, and though he has been retired for over twenty years, he has never stopped teaching. Since his retirement, his reputation as a fine instructor and demand for his painting seminars has caused him to change his focus from painting for exhibitions, competitions and galleries to using his teaching skills to help other artists discover the magic of watercolors.

• ISBN-13: 9781440353833
• Running Time: 61 Minutes