Tutorials, Class Notes and Videos

Tutorials (All Mediums)

Complete Manual for Landscape Composition   (html only)
Complete Manual for Landscape Composition (Booklet format)
 Thoughts on painting evergreen trees  (pdf 820 KB)
 Thoughts on Painting Rocks.   (pdf 672 KB)
 Thoughts on Painting Skies    (pdf 1 meg)
Notes on Drawing (pdf 4 megs)
 Thoughts on painting grass  (pdf 1.4 meg)
Some ideas on Painting Mountains (pdf 1.3 meg)
 

 

 

 Tutorials (Watercolor)

 Watercolor Techniques (pdf  850KB)
 Methods of Applying Watercolor to the Paper (pdf  250 KB)
 Essential Brush Strokes (pdf  320 KB)
 How to Fix Mistakes in Watercolor (pdf  450 KB)
 Another tutorial on how to fix mistakes in watercolor (html )
 How to control wet on wet watercolor (html )
Notes on perspective and tips on barns (pdf  4 meg)

 
Workshops

Tree workshop Lesson1, Lesson2, Lesson 3, Lesson 4&5,  Lesson 6 (html)
 Tree Workshop Lessons (pdf) 21 pages 2 megs

 

Class Notes  
                                            
April 6 Rocky Mountain High  (pdf  350 KB)
May 3 2003   (pdf  700 KB)
 Techniques for Flower Painting (pdf  350 KB
 Study of Tony Couch (pdf  835 KB)
 Study of Gerald Harvey (pdf   917 KB)
Study of Tom Lynch (pdf  1.2  meg)
 Notes on value patterns (zip  1.3 meg)
Some Ideas on Seascapes (pdf 324 KB)
Notes on Color Harmony (zip 486 KB)
Class notes on portratit painting (pdf 1.55 meg)
What Colors do Pro Landscape painters use? (pdf  300 KB)

 

 

Painting Demos (Photos and text)

Teton Marvel. Step by Step Demo (htm file)
 Carmel Mission Demo (pdf )
Seascape in watercolor

 

  

                                                               Video section

                                                                 

Note: In case you get an error when attempting to play any of these videos download this  and install: 

Divx Codec  <Click here to get it

Applying Watercolor (25 megs duration 6 min. 20 seconds)      <--Right click and select "Save Target as"
Correcting Watercolor (35 megs duration 9 min. 05 seconds)   <--Right click and select "Save Target as"
Watercolor Tricks (57megs duration 16 min.)                           <--Right click and select "Save Target as"
 

                                                                        Painting Demos

Note: Some of these videos do not contain sound

Important: Right click on the title of the painting and select save target as to store the video on your hard drive. To see a larger version of the painting click on the picture thumbnail.


To download the video,right click on the title. Select save target as. To see the painting click
on the thumbnail.

Patty's Portrait (oil)

DVD quality DivX avi file 
(815 meg) Duration 2:30
Video recorded during a live class.
Contains audio.

 

      

Stream in Yosemite (oil)
Part 1 (231 meg)
Part 2 (249 meg)
no audio
 		 To download the video,right click on the title. Select save target as. To see the painting click
on the thumbnail. .
 
              r (1' 55")
Snowy River (watercolor)
 DVD quality (593 meg)
 

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on the thumbnail.

Majestic Waterfall (oil)
 Part 1 (243 meg)
Part 2 (232 meg)
no audio

 

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on the thumbnail.

Blooming Wonders (watercolor)
 Part 1(174 meg)
no audio

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on the thumbnail.

Mountain Splendor (watercolor)
 (635 meg)
duration 2'00"
DVD quality DivX avi file

Video recorded during a live class.
Contains audio.

 

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on the thumbnail.
.

Eagle Landing (oil)
 (681 meg)
duration 2'09"
DVD quality DivX avi file

Video recorded during a live class.
Contains audio.

 

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on the thumbnail.

Melting Snow (oil)
 (800 meg)
duration 2'39"
DVD quality DivX avi file

Video recorded during a live class.
Contains audio.

 


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on the thumbnail.

Bridge to Wonderland
 (755 meg)
duration 2'23"
DVD quality DivX avi file

Video recorded during a live class.
Contains audio.

 

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on the thumbnail.

Sedona Mountians
 (727 meg)
duration 2'18"
DVD quality DivX avi file

Video recorded during a live class.
Contains audio.

 

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on the thumbnail.

Hiker's Trail (oil)
 (930 meg)
duration 2'57"
DVD quality DivX avi file

Video recorded during a live class.
Contains audio.

 

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on the thumbnail.

Peggy's Cove
 (870 meg)
duration 2'45"
DVD quality DivX avi file

Video recorded during a live class.
Contains audio.