Latest Release - Winning Watercolours With Steve Hall

Winning Watercolours

 

With Steve Hall

 

Latest DVD Release Out Now

 

Steve Hall is one of our most poplar teaching artists and in this his fifth DVD for us he reveals some of his secrets on how to produce a winning watercolour. Steve Hall is a master of expressive big brush watercolour painting and in this DVD he reveals his secrets of how to produce a winning painting every time. If you are tired of producing too many failures then this is the DVD to get you back on track. Steve starts by demonstrating his new technique aimed at producing the perfect eye pleasing composition every time. He covers subjects such as how to simply paint figures in a landscape and what to do when there appears nothing worth painting! The DVD is filmed on location in the charming Suffolk seaside town of Aldeburgh - home to the famous music festival founded by composer and former resident, the late Benjamin Britten.



Your can view the trailer here: Winning Watercolours With Steve Hall trailer



This DVD is full of really practical painting tips presented in Steve's usual enthusiastic and supportive style. A must for fans of loose watercolour painting.

This DVD, like our whole range, is available in both PAL format for the UK, Europe and NTSC format for the USA, Canada and Japan. You will automatically be sent the correct version for where you live.

Why not combine this DVD with another and save 12%. The discount will automatically be applied at checkout.

If you are ordering from outside the UK you can check shipping rates here: International Shipping Rates

Happy Painting!

Winning Watercolorus With Steve hall - Latest Release

Steve Hall is a master of expressive big brush watercolour painting and in this DVD he reveals his secrets of how to produce a winning painting every time. If you are tired of producing too many failures then this if the DVD to get you back on track.
Steve starts by demonstrating his new technique aimed at producing the perfect eye pleasing composition every time. He covers subjects such as how to simply paint figures in a landscape and what to do when they appears nothing worth painting!
The DVD is filmed on location in the charming Suffolk seaside town of Aldeburgh - home to the famous music festival founded by composer and former resident, the late Benjamin Britten

Our latest release featuring the fabulous Chris Daynes

Light And Atmosphere In Oil Landscapes   With Chris Daynes     Our latest DVD featuring the fabulous Chris Daynes is out now! Chris is passionate about plein air oil painting and in this, his second DVD for us, he travels to what he calls his "spiritual painting home" of North Norfolk. Norfolk is all about big skies and it's these skies that feature prominently in so much of Chris' work. In this DVD Chris, who is based in Kent returns to some of his favourite painting locations including  Blakeney Harbour and Cley Next The Sea. Just to prove that the outdoor artist has to learn to adapt to conditions , in this DVD Chris paints both under a blazing summer sun and in heavy rain! It's the rain picture which he was forced to complete in just 45 minutes which is featured on the DVD front cover. As Chris says: "It just shows you what you can do when you are up against the clock!" This DVD - like  all our releases -  is available in both PAL format for Europe and most of the world and NTSC format for our friends in Canada, the USA and Japan. If you order on line from our web site you  will  automatically be sent the correct version for where you live. There are four demonstrations on this DVD with a running time of 90 minutes. You can view the trailer here: And don't forget our permanent discount offer - order two or more full price DVDs at a time and you will automatically be given a 12% discount off the total purchase price.  Also check out our web site for our special offers with some DVDs at less than half price,   Upcoming Productions So many people have contacted us asking if we are going to produce a new watercolour DVD with the super talented Ann Blockley after the release of her sell-out new book - Experimental Landscapes In Watercolour. You will be delighted to hear that we are filming again with Ann in September and the DVD will be out before Christmas. The DVD will echo the exciting content of this wonderfully inspiring book. And good news for all you Steve Hall fans - Steve will be filming his fifth DVD with us next week where he will be showing how to produce winning watercolours painted on location. And finally......... And finally some sad news. If you have bought our DVDs filmed on location you may have seen a cute little dog in the background of quite a few of our films - she was even painted by the great Charles Reid in his most recent film for us. That was our dear Border Terrier Gussie who sadly passed away recently after a long illness. She will be much missed. From us all at Town House Films - enjoy the summer and Happy Painting!

New Acrylic DVD Out Now!

Our latest release features west country artist Lynda Appleby - Acrylic Landscapes With The Wow Factor.

Lynda Appleby is an artist with a mission.She believes anyone can create attention-grabbing landscapes if they just follow her simple approach to acrylic painting. She loves acrylics for their versatility and in four exciting demonstrations shows how to put them to good use capturing landscape subjects from the UK and from a recent trip to Australia. Her aim is to capture that "wow factor" that first inspires the artist to paint the scene. Be inspired!

Here's the trailer:

New Ann Blockley Book

The hugely popular artist Ann Blockley has a new book out. It's totally brilliant and you can buy an early copy direct from her: www.annblockley.com

The Lion In Watercolour

We have just released our latest video download featuring popular watercolour artist Jake Winkle. 

It's a 20 minute demonstration showing Jake's fantastic talent at it's best. It costs just £3.99 and can be downloaded to any PC or Mac computer. Here's the trailer:

New Video Download Now Available

Our latest video download features the fabulous Chris Forsey. It' costs just £3.99 and can be downloaded to keep on a  PC or MAC computer. Each download bought can be downloaded up to five times. Once you have downloaded it it's yours to keep for ever.

And here's the  trailer

Going Wild In Watercolour - New Release

First of all Happy New Year to all our customers around the world. We hope you have a wonderful year ahead and that your painting is going from strength to strength. Our first newsletter of 2014 brings news of our latest release featuring that popular watercolour painter Jake Winkle - Going Wild In Watercolour.

Jake is never happier than when he is painting animals from the the UK and other countries he has visited. In this New DVD Jake paints  creatures ranging from cheetahs he saw in Africa to the humble bumble bee. He paints them using an exciting mix of colours  that makes them really come alive.

Check out the details here: New Jake Winkle DVD

New Web Site For Watercolour Artist John Hoar

The marvellous artist John Hoar with whom we have made four DVDs has just launched a brand new web site. And on it you can easily buy original paintings from this great artist.
Do have a look: http://www.jhoar.com/

 

 

 

Trailer For New John Hoar DVD

New DVD Featuring John Hoar Out Soon

So many people have asked for another John Hoar DVD we couldn't say no/. We filmed with John in the early summer in the amazing Cathedral City of Ely in Cambridgeshire and the result is a DVD with four fabulous demonstration paintings - Watercolour Fast And Free. You can pre-order the DVD now and get it as soon as it is released on October 19. Available in both PAL and NTSC for the USA and Canada

NEW CHARLES REID DVD TRAILER

Here's the trailer for Charles' new DVD - Charles Reid's English Watercolour Sketchbook - due out on Sept 9th. You can pre order now on our website.

New Release Featuring The Brilliant Charles Reid

Charles is my all time painting here and I was delighted to film with him this summer in the Cotswolds. The New DVD will be out on September 9th but you can pre-order now.
Here are some images from the video.

Cecil Rice Paints on BBC TV

Brighton-based artist Cecil Rice who we recently worked with on our recent DVD release Painting The Light In Watercolour is to star in an upcoming episode of the popular BBC One programme Countryfile. Cecil was approached to paint a scene at a country fair in the Cotswolds. Here's his story:

"I was asked to paint a view of the country fair and I set up under a gazebo for the day.  The challenge for me, as you will appreciate very well, was making the painting last for six hours. My usual approach would be to paint for a two hour stretch, fairly instinctively and quickly establishing essentials of light, tone, movement and form, possibly without much embellishment.  Because the light is completely different beyond this it is really dangerous to keep working on a plain-air painting in case you are tempted to re-state everything on top of your original impression.  I hit a compromise whereby I started very slowly, only establishing pockets of shadow and detail that wouldn't really change much. I also did a small but useful quick impression on a separate sheet of paper so that I could refer to this later on.

The final painting was OK but might have been a little livelier if I had not had to stretch it out for so many sweltering hours. But the result was quite respectable and I may be able to produce a more spirited interpretation in the studio.

The filming started in a very encouraging way. Matt Baker spent some minutes asking questions and I was able to give my name and to answer that my concern was with capturing the light and other qualities.  I was filmed for five or ten minutes getting started. Initially it seemed that Matt would return to do a conclusion with me but as the day went on it became clear that the crew had a great deal of other work to do. Camera-men visited every so often, filming the gradual progress of the painting. At the end I gave Matt Hill a copy of my book and DVD and I know that he was very pleased about this.

It's absolutely impossible to know how much or how little of all this they will use but I did receive an e-mail thanking me for my efforts and encouraging me to watch the relevant episode, which is due for broadcast on 28th July. "

Plein Air Competition Win For Adebanji Alade

London based painter Adebanji Alade AROI has scored a super successes in this year's London plein air painting competition Pintar Rapido (roughly translated as  paint fast!). The London Borough of Kensington and Chelsea hosted 400 artists who had just a day to capture a scene within that part of London.

The rules were simple -  choose a spot in the Borough of Kensington and Chelsea and paint it in a day! The Artists registered at 9.00am at the Chelsea Town Hall and got the painting surfaces stamped, then they all went to their favourite chosen spots around Chelsea to work on their pieces. We were all to come back by 8pm with the finished works ready for hanging. all the works were to be on display the next day at the Chelsea Town Hall, where all the paintings would be for sale and the winning painting would receive £1,000!

Adebanji was telephoned by Professor Ken Howard RA to tell him that he had won!!!

 

Adebanji used acrylic paint for this picture. You can see him in action on the DVD we made with him - Coastal Adventures in Acrylic.

 

Read the full details and see stage by stage pictures on Adebanji's brilliant blog:

New Video Download Released

We have just released out latest video download - Capturing Light in Watercolour with Cecil Rice. It features a 21 minute demonstration not on his DVD and sells for just £3.99.

Here's the trailer:

Laest Release Featuring Chris Forsey R.I.

After much public demand I  am delighted to tell you that our new DVD featuring the popular artist  Chris Forsey is due for release on Monday June 10 but is available for pre-order now.

 

And here's the trailer

 

 

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/