- Subjects
- Genres
- Lectures
Educational films
Instructional films
Instructional and educational works
Nonfiction films
Video recordings for the hearing impaired - Published
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Chantilly, VA :
The Teaching Company
[2019]
- Language
- English
- Corporate Author
- Main Author
- Corporate Author
- Item Description
- "The Great courses, Topic: Better living ; Subtopic: Arts & leisure"--Cover.
"Course no. 7788"--Disc labels.
Closed captioned for the hearing impaired.
34 lectures lasting 30 minutes each. - Physical Description
- 6 videodiscs (approximately 1020 min.): sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (viii, 242 pages : illustrations)
- ISBN
- 9781629978086
- Disc 1. The grand tradition of painting
- Health and safety in the studio
- Basic painting materials
- Studio setup and brush care
- First exercises: line and mark
- First exercises: value, edges, and texture
- Disc 2. Creating basic forms: lines, shapes, and solids
- Value: making a value scale
- Value: a simple still life
- Value: mood, palette, and light
- Value: block and sphere in grisaille
- The figure and a portrait in brunaille
- Disc 3. Working with the earth tone palette
- Ensuring accurate proportions
- Composition: shape, ground, and format
- Composition: Leonardo and the armature
- Composition: balance, focus, and space
- Degas, Hammershøi, and other projects
- Disc 4. Materials: oil paint brands and quality
- Materials: oil paint characteristics
- Color: theory and exercises
- Color: painting with limited palettes
- Materials: all about medium
- Materials: all about brushes
- Disc 5. Materials: flexible supports
- Materials: rigid supports
- Materials: carpentry for the studio
- Project: a Modigliani portrait
- Project: a Degas ballerina
- Disc 6. Project: a Corot landscape
- Project: Derain's portrait of Matisse
- Project: a Porter self-portrait
- Painting's evolution: indirect painting
- Nighthawks, The Scream, and other projects.