Description of DVD
American artist, Hall Groat II, in his unique instructional DVD
series demonstrates the techniques of the lost art of traditional realist oil painting. In volume #2 he presents three fully narrated, comprehensive demonstrations, including 2 hours of solid instruction. The demonstrations included are of compo-sitions involving: a classic American baseball with all of its intricate red stitching, three luminous white eggs set against a rich, dark background, and a lovely grouping of violet grapesresting within a ornate gold vintage creamer!
Through Hall's innovative step-by-step approach, he outlines the painting process that was used by such 19th century painters as Edgar Degas and Edouard Manet. Using an easily understood teaching approach, Hall reveals the secrets behind creating dramatic light and shadow illusions to compelling atmospheric spaces, all the way to rendering convincing three-dimensional illusions of form and space.
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a concise step-by-step system, offering both the beginning and the professional artist the necessary tools to successfully create traditional realist still life oil paintings. Such topics are covered as establishing background variation and movement, accents and cast shadows, rim and high lights, and realizing the primary and secondary planes of the motif. Each of the three demonstrations is divided into phases with clearly stated topic headings that correspond to the steps presented in the instructional guide. A glossary of painting terms is also included! All of the demonstrations are approximately 40minutes in length.
Hall has taught art for over twenty years, and currently is an Associate Professor of Art at a college in New York. ARTNews Magazine critic, Gerard Haggerty, states that Hall Groat II's still life paintings evoke the big picture that we call art history,including painters like Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin, Edwin Dickinson, and his teacher Lennart Anderson." Collectors of his work have expressed that the work is "Alive, full of grace vitality and beauty, capturing light that is sublime in nature."
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