Carrie Schmitt and Amy Jones: Abstract Flower PaintingLet the unpredictability of water help you create abstract flower paintings in this video workshop from Carrie Schmitt. Begin with a lesson on preparing your Aquabords as a substrate, then follow Carrie's techniques for adding your first layer of paint with drips and sprays of water to create flowing effects. As you up build layers you'll learn techniques for etching, adding texture, adding masking fluid, and learn to identify the composition. In the

She offers deep insights into how our eyes perceive what we see — and this lets you create art in your own voice and in your own style without ever compromising quality

the fruits

It’s learning how this master painter starts and finishes a painting

as he paints a landscape from start to finish

scrap booking

This video is Robert Burridge demonstrating with acrylic paint

Making Distances Recede

in the second video set below (Painting the Figure)

evocative still life paintings

The benefits of not doing too much too soon

Includes a 19 page printed lesson project as a companion to the video to provide convenient

a member of the Oil Painters of America