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Video Art LessonsMy information-rich videos demonstrate in detail some of the skills and techniques presented in the Free Online Art Class Lessons. Access any video at anytime for your personal use, home schooling projects or group art lessons! They are yours to use as information-rich, step by step lessons that demonstrate many different art skills and techniques.
# 01--Collage Lesson One Video Click here to begin the complete six Free Online Art Classes Lessons for Collage! This video demonstration acquaints the beginning collage student with the necessary knowledge: materials needed, collecting and using found papers, gluing techniques and composition are covered in detail through a step by step demonstration from the very beginning of the collage to its finish. Go to 14 minutes Click here for the Collage Lesson Video!
# 02--Collage Lesson Two Video Click here to begin the complete six Free Online Art Classes Lessons for Collage! Lesson One was fun! Now on to Lesson Two! This video demonstrates a collage technique of using like subject matter--that is, images that are the same. Here, you will learn how to choose this kind of subject matter from magazines, newspapers and other found papers and create a composition of similar elements, creating an exciting and fascinating collage composition. Seven minutes Click here for the Collage Lesson Two Video!
# 03--Collage Lesson Three Video Click here to begin the complete six Free Online Art Classes Lessons for Collage! Lesson Two was a lot of fun, also. This video demonstration of Lesson Three will equip you with advanced collage skills. The challenge is to use a variety of found papers: images, colors and textures and, by observing your work in progress closely, look for an emerging image that will become the main subject matter. In addition, you will learn how to emphasize the image through a variety of methods, including color, form and shape contrast. From beginning to end, the skills and abilities you will learn from this video will catapult you into your own exciting series of collages using your favorite materials and exploring your personal subject matter. Thirteen minutes Click here for the Collage Lesson Three Video!
# 04 --Pencil Shading - Volume Exercise Video Click here to begin the complete six Free Online Art Classes Lessons for Basic Drawing! Here is a classic shading exercise that will teach you how to use cross hatching techniques to develop tonal shading skills. Through a slow, steady build up of lines, two rectangles side by side change into a spatial composition--just by shading! Completing this exercise will give you the shading abilities you will need to tackle a variety of subject matter: still life, portrait, landscapes or abstract designs. Seventeen minutes Click here for the Pencil Shading Video!
#04A - Pencil Line Drawing Exercise Video Click here to begin the complete six Free Online Art Classes Lessons for Basic Drawing! Through a concise, step by step demonstration, I show how you can do a line drawing from drapery, simply set up as your subject matter. This video will develop your observation skills, seeing your subject in simple terms and translating the simple forms to your paper.After mapping out the subject lightly, I will show you how to develop a simple but strong and effective line drawing, choosing carefully the minimal configurations you need to express the form and using expressive lines to describe it. Nineteen Minutes Click Here for the Line Drawing Video!
# 05 --Pencil Drawing - Still Life Click here to begin the complete six Free Online Art Classes Lessons for Basic Drawing! This video demonstration shows you step by step how to draw a still life--observing the forms closely and putting them down accurately on your paper.It shows you how to check and re-check your drawing, working towards good composition. Then, you will learn how to develop the drawing slowly, building up tonality through a crosshatching technique. Paying close attention to light and shadow on the forms and emphasizing the tonality to produce volume and space in your drawing is the final goal. Twenty-two minutes Click here for the Pencil Drawing Still Life Exercise!
# 06 --Colored Pencil - Three Column Shading Lesson Video Click here to begin the complete six Free Online Art Classes Lessons for Colored Pencil Drawing! So now you are the proud owner of a box of beautiful, good quality colored pencils and you are ready to try them out! This easy and fun, step by step shading lesson will get you and your colored pencils acquainted right away! Here you will learn how to shade, exploring the many tonalities you can produce with colored pencils, as well as how to build up solid color. When you have finished this Shading Lesson Video, you will be ready, willing and able to proceed with confidence to any subject matter: still life, landscape, portrait or abstract compositions. Seventeen minutes Click here for the Colored Pencil Shading Lesson Video!
# 07--Oil Pastels - Doodle Lesson Video Oil Pastels - Doodle Click here to begin the complete six Free Online Art Classes Lessons for Oil Pastels! Your new set of beautiful oil pastels looks a little intimidating. Don't worry! Just watch this video, follow along and soon you will feel confident with newly acquired skills in imaging, observing, applying color and using color to emphasize subject matter and produce an exciting, rewarding oil pastel composition. If you've never doodled before, you might be a little skeptical of this technique. But once tried, you will see how productive this artistic brainstorming technique is! Through this exercise you will produce images you never dreamed of--then work them, with the magic of your oil pastels, into a highly imaginative and beautifully colorful composition. Thirteen minutes Click here for the Oil Pastels Doodle Video!
# 08--Oil Pastels - Shading A Circle To Create A Sphere Lesson Video Click here to begin the complete six Free Online Art Classes Lessons for Oil Pastels! This video demonstrates clearly the step by step method of shading a circle to create volume (the circle becomes a sphere.) Here you will learn how to determine illumination on a simple circle, how to create light and shadow through shading techniques. This Lesson is all about color and you will learn how to produce dark and light areas through the colors of your oil pastels. This Lesson also shows you how to blend colors to produce volume. You will be amazed as your circle becomes dimensional--all by your own hand and your lovely oil pastels. Sixteen minutes Click here for the Pastel Shading Sphere Video!
# 09 --Oil Pastel From A Photo - Still Life Video Click here to begin the complete six Free Online Art Classes Lessons for Oil Pastels! This demonstration video shows how working over a photo is a great way to learn all kinds of things: color contrast, color blending, shading, highlights, creating space and volume and applying your own techniques to a given format. Nothing much can be learned by simply coloring a photograph. By observing closely as oil pastel is applied, you can hone your drawing skills and increase your color and proportion sensibilities. The photo is a beginning reference that changes as you apply your skills and talents, changing the photo into a beautiful oil pastel composition! Thirteen minutes Click here for the Oil Pastel Still Life Video!
# 10--Oil Pastel From A Photo - Plant Click here to begin the complete six Free Online Art Classes Lessons for Oil Pastels! You've worked on some photos you've taken and have learned a great deal about oil pastels. This demonstration video reiterates the oil pastel from a photo technique, but shows you how to apply the technique to a smaller format - that is working on a small 3" x 5" photo and developing an oil pastel from it. Here, you will learn what detail you can include and what you must leave out because of the size of the work. Working small forces you to simplify your composition. You will learn quickly that pastels have limits, just like any other art medium. The advantage here is that you must make decisions to exclude certain things and to include other things--so that the composition is successful. This is all shown, step by step, in this video. Eleven minutes Click here for the Oil Pastels from Photo Video!
#11 - Conte Crayon - How To Shade A Face Click here to begin the complete six Free Online Art Classes Lessons for Conte Crayon! This is the second in a two-part series of shading exercises for Conte Crayon. The first is Shading A Cylinder and shows you step by step how to use the addition and subtraction method to develop a rich tonality and volume for a cylinder. Here, you will draw a face using your imagination (I will show you how!) and then, step by step, I will show you how to shade the face using the addition and subtraction method to develop a realistic shaded and highlighted expressive face! This is a fun exercise. You will be surprised at what you can do! Eleven minutes Click here for the Shading A Face Video!
#12 - Conte Crayon - How To Shade A Cylinder Click here to begin the complete six Free Online Art Classes Lessons for Conte Crayon! A basic exercise in taking an imaginary geometrical form and applying tonality to give it volume. Through a step by step process, I show you how easy it is to give the illusion of light and shadow right from your imagination, and create a realistic form! Click here for the Shading A Cylinder Video!
# 13 - Acrylic Painting - Painting A Still Life A basic acrylic painting exercise that is a lot of fun. Working with a still life as subject matter, you will learn how to draw the objects of the still life (I use my still life set up as an example) and how to block in the basic acrylic colors.Then, I will show you how to develop those colors, check and re-check you scale and correct your forms until you have a pretty accurate painting! Continuing, there is more development of color areas, putting down basic shadows and highlights. This is all in the first Phase of Still Life Painting. The next two Phases show further development! Twenty-four Minutes Click here for the Acrylic Painting A Still Life-Phase One!
# 14 - Acrylic Painting - How To Develop Painting A Still Life - Phase 2 This is the second Phase of developing your acrylic painting, working with a still life as subject matter. Here, I show how to enrich your color and composition, adjusting again the objects you are painting for interest and dynamics. I make useful comments and give you important tips on composition and color enhancement. At this stage, your painting is coming into its own. But, it can also be a reference and study for a more detail painting or series of paintings. Seventeen Minutes Click here for the Acrylic Painting A Still Life - Phase Two!
# 15 - Acrylic Painting - How To Develop Painting A Still Life - Phase 3 This is the third Phase of developing your acrylic painting, working with a still life as subject matter. Here, I show how to enrich your color and composition further and working toward compositional and color dynamics. Development goes further into detail and color nuance. At completion, the painting is strong and clearly expresses what I wanted to say in painting the still life. This is a good guideline for taking your painting to the ultimate goal and accomplishing your creative expressions.
Twelve Minutes Click here for the Acrylic Painting A Still Life - Phase Three!
#16 - Beginning Printmaking - Making A Monoprint Click here for the complete six lessons of Free Online Art Classes for Printmaking! With simple materials: a smooth printing surface, acrylic paints and several sheets of sketch book paper, I demonstrate the technique of making a single print (monoprint.) For the beginning printmaker, this information is very valuable because the exercise shows how colors, textures and images translate in reverse to a given print. Thirteen Minutes Click here for the Printmaking - Making A Monoprint Video!
#17 - Beginning Printmaking - Making A Collagraph 1 #18 = Beginning Printmaking - Making A Collagraph 2 Click here for the complete six lessons of Free Online Art Classes for Printmaking! Here is a video demonstration showing how to make a collagraph: gluing a variety of textural materials on a square of cardboard (or printing plate), later applying shellac or varnish to the plate to prepare it for printing. Printing is done by painting the plate with acrylic colors and pressing a sheet of paper on it, making sure all of the textures on the plate are recorded. Click here for "Making A Collagraph 1 video! Seven Minutes Click here for my "Making A Collagraph 2 video! Five Minutes
Click here for the complete six lessons of Free Online Art Classes for Printing Fabric! Here are six great lessons and three good videos that present step by step instruction for my method of fabric printing. Although this instruction is tailored for my specific techniques in printing fabric, which I have developed over the years, the information is general enough to allow the student to take off and develop a personal technique and style using this printing methods.
Click here to watch "Fabric Printing From A Collage Plate" Click here to watch "Making A Fabric Collage"
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Student Testimonials
I recently vistied your website and saw all of the great work you are doing! This is wonderful.
I would love to learn how to draw and was looking at a link to your basic drawing classes. I am hoping that you could send me the coarse information.
Also, I have a daughter who is very interested in art. She is being homeschooled. She has self-taught herself in painting but I am also looking for any coarse work that I could introduce to her studies as well.
Ericka J.
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I just watched your wonderful oil pastel on a photo and your shading video. Thanks so much! I have been struggling with how to work with oil pastels- I have taken some recreational art classes- but the blending on the paper is hard for me to fathom. If you still offer your oil pastel class I would be very interested.
Shelley
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Hello again Lois,Sorry I forgot to add that I can draw a bit & that all my art is done by mouth so I’ll need basic, easy instruction that are quick to work with.I hope this doesn’t make things to difficult & I understand if you are unable to help me.Thanks AgainKatt
Dear Lois,Thankyou for this.I will approach these tasks over the weekend & let you know how I go.Again I thank you for giving me the time to try & achieve my art.katt
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I work for a Recreation & Parks Department and I was online searching for some art projects to use for our summer day camp program (and secretly for myself to satisfy the little artist in me!) I look forward to taking some of your online lessons.
Deb
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Hello, I have been drawing portraits lately and feel your crosshatching method has been very helpful! My shading has improved immensely!I will work on the line drawing as soon as I have time! Rose
Notes on Making Videos......
I look back at the first videos I made several years ago and I admit I'm amused at my lengthy dialogues I attached to various demonstrations of painting, drawing and printmaking.
At the onset, I pretty much applied my teaching style to my videos, figuring that a similar method of delivery which worked well with my students would be good for YouTube.
Over the years, however, I have refined my art lesson videos, making them shorter and more concentrated in instruction. I have also migrated away from the lengthy dialogues and let my annotations on the videos explain what I am doing. In this way, I think, hearing impaired viewers will garner just as much from my videos as those that can hear just fine.
Lois DeWitt