Excellent Cecil Rice Book

Cecil Rice, who features in our next DVD release Painting Light In Watercolour,  has produced an excellent book on his work. It is available directly from him via this link: Cecil Rice Book

Latest DVD Release Trailer

The trailer for our latest DVD is now up and running and it is available for pre-order on our web site. It's called Painting The Light in Watercolour with Brighton-based artist Cecil Rice. He says his aim is sometimes to make the light in his paintings so bright it's almost blinding. This may sound fanciful stuff in watercolour but let me assure you he really can do this!
See for yourself:

Talented Wiltshire Painter

It's always a joy to talk to our customers on the phone and share our love of painting. Today I was chatting to Valerie Batchelor based in Salisbury Wiltshire. Valerie is an outstanding artist and I do do recommend a vist to her excellent website. This is just one of her pictures on her site.

www.valeriebatchelorart.co.uk/

New Video Download Now On Line

Our latest video download is now on line and ready to download at just £3.99 - that's just over $6 to both our US and Australian friends and around 4.6 Euros to our friends in the EU. It runs around 17 minutes. This exclusive video download demonstration is not on any DVD.

Painting Courses With Robert Brindley RSMA

The popular painter and teacher Robert Brindley with whom we have produced three DVDs  is teaching a number of courses this year for the excellent West Norfolk Arts Cetre at Castle Rising in Norfolk - a stone's throw from the Queen's Sandringham  estate.  The courses are both at Castle Rising and abroad.

here are the details 

'Painting Simple Oil Landscapes'    6th / 7th April

'Painting Watercolour Landscapes'     16th / 17th August

'Painting Course In Lake Garda'      11th / 18th September

'Painting Oil Landscapes'     26th / 27th October

For further details visit: www.westnorfolkarts.co.uk

Or telephone: 01553 631689 to speak directly to Richard or Ros.

New DVD Out On Feb 18

One of the most influential teachers of watercolour painting in the last  half century in the UK was the late Edward Wesson - 1910-1983

Sadly "Ted" as he was universally known never hot to make a teaching video but West Country artist Steve Hall has attempted to fill the void by filming with us our next release - Wesson Watercolour Secrets.

Steve has made a 12 year study of the great man and co-written two book on Wesson. He also owns a considerable number of Wesson originals and by close examination of the paintings and  painstaking  detective work Steve has pieced together the techniques that made Edward Wesson a painting legend.



The result is a brand new DVD that lifts the lid on Edward Wesson's Watercolour secrets. Steve even paints one picture on the DVD with Wesson;s own painting brushes - recently given to him by Ted's daughter Elizabeth Wesson.

Here's Steve with the Wesson Brush set

And here's one of the four demonstration paintings Steve does on the DVD

You can pre-order the DVD now!

Brand New Website!

We are very excited to announce the launch of our brand new web site this morning. Apart from looking better and being easier to navigate it contains, for the first time, video downloads. We are starting with two specially shot lessons with one of our favourite artists, Brian Ryder covering the popular subject of sketchbook drawing techniques which Brian says is at the heart of a good painting. You can view trailers for them on the web site. Each lesson is 20 minutes log and can be downloaded to a PC or Mac computer to keep. Each one is just £3.99 - that's $6.36 US. Many more to follow. Hope you like it: www.townhousefilms.co.uk