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Well, Susan and I just returned from a five-week painting trip to Turkey and then Spain. We were welcomed everywhere when we painted on the streets and in the little villages of Turkey and Spain, except in Barcelona, where the police vigorously stopped us from painting, saying it was illegal to paint anywhere in public in Barcelona even though we weren't selling anything. We even went to the police station to fill out an official application, but they are only reviewed one day a year and are really meant for street performers asking for money, so it seems there is no real legal way to plein-air paint in Barcelona.
I should note that we have painted without problem throughout the rest of Spain, which is one of our favorite countries in Europe, so this isn't a critique of Spain generally, but only of Barcelona. The above video is a spoof of our experience. The funniest thing the police said to me was "Stop painting, NOW!", which I didn't capture on video since I was painting at the time! The police also forced me to stop videotaping them when they were shutting us down. Oh, Barcelona, what has happened to you since we visited there in 1997?
Susan Lyon and Scott Burdick
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"Diane Feissel" Charcoal and White Chalk, 24" by 18" by Scott Burdick - drawing available from artist.
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"Great Grandfather - Navajo" oil, 20" by 20" by Scott Burdick
This painting will be available at the Brisco Museum's "Night of Artists" show
Saturday, March 23, 2013
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New Online Video!
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$24.99
Runtime - 1hr 40min
This video lesson includes five demonstrations in oil by Susan Lyon and several discussions of equipment and materials.
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of times and paying us no royalty. This is a loophole in the law and we couldn't put the time and energy into creating
these video lessons otherwise.
Hopefully the fact that they are substantially cheaper as dowloads than our DVDs makes up for this limitation.
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$24.99
Runtime - 2hr 8min
This video lesson includes a discussion of plein air painting equipment and materials
A demonstration by Susan Lyon of an outdoor scene.
Six demonstrations by Scott Burdick,
including a plein air portrait and stairway scene,
then a studio charcoal drawing study and the full color watercolor of a dancer,
and finally two demos of Spanish dancers shown in a series of still photographs with narration by Scott.
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New Online Instructional Video -
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Susan Lyon -
Sketching the Figure in Oil
2 hours - $24.95
This is the latest online video of Susan Lyon as she takes you through
the process of painting quick figure studies in oil from live models.
The video consists of a discussion of materials, color mixing, thirteen demonstrations in oil,
as well as a slide show of paintings with a narration by Susan.
The lessons run on both Macs and PCs. Here's how it works. You download the selected video lesson to your computer permanently and view it as many times as you like for the life of the computer. The lesson cannot be copied, burned to a DVD, or moved to another computer. This is the reason why the lessons are so much cheaper than those we sell as DVDs, which require so much shipping, storage, etc. These lessons are exlusively offered online and cannot be ordered as DVDs.
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Scott Burdick-
The Basics of Color
90 minutes - $24.95
This is the latest online video of Scott Burdick as he completes two studio painting demonstrations in oil
and
discusses the basics of color. The video uses numerous illustrtations to thoroughly explain
the
approach to oil and the intricacies of color theory.
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Susan Lyon -
Portrait Drawing |
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Susan Lyon -
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Photoshop Lessons for Artists
2 hours - $20
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Photoshop Video - Table of Contents
I'm using Photoshop CS4, but most of the tools have been a part of Photoshop for many years, so the video should be fine even for older versions.
If you are using the Elements version of Photoshop, this video won't be much help in using Elements, but might be a cheap way to see what tools you're missing and whether or not you actually need the full version of Photoshop, or if Elements serves your needs well enough.
Here is a general summary of the topics covered in the online Photoshop video lesson.
This two-hour video is meant as an introduction to all the basic tools I use as an artist to adjust photos and paintings.
I'm putting this detailed summary down so you'll know exactly what the lesson covers.
While there is no way to cover every single detail of every tool, I hope this will be a good introduction to how an artist might use Photoshop.
Moving photos from a digital camera to computer
Organizing them in folders
Backing up on external hard drives
Basic tools of Photoshop
zoom tool
move tool
Adjusting a photo
Levels (lightening and darkening - histogram)
History Palette
Curves
Shadows/Highlights adjuster
History Brush
* Resizing and compressing an image for the web and to print
Color Adjustments
Hue/Saturation
Color Balance
* Clone Stamp
* Printing a photo
Creating actions to calibrate a printer to monitor
Using Layers and Layer masks to combine two photos
* Overview of other tools
Selection, Lasso, Magic Wand, Crop, Eye Dropper
Paint Brush, Type Tool
* Posterizing
Creating a Black and White image 3 ways
Brightness/Contrast
Tiling a print using Canvas Size
Adjusting a painting
Rotation
Cropping and fixing skewed perspective
Fixing a color cast with white point eye dropper
Unsharp Mask
Stitching multiple photos together with photomerge
Adjusting a landscape for value and color
* Working from a photo in the studio.
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PCs
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