Grow your technique repertoire! Learn numerous quick and reliable techniques to use when creating mixed-media art. There’s no need to buy special equipment—use what you have on hand (junk mail, cardboard toilet paper tubes, plastic forks, etc.) and mix it up with your art supplies. Artist Julie Fei-Fan Balzer shares a compendium of techniques to use anywhere, even in a small apartment—no ventilation issues, no space-hog issues. Make a mess, have some fun, use your stash, get it done quickly! This DVD is divided into three major concepts: Creating a Textured Foundation, Layering Art Mediums, and Patterning with Paint. A variety of fun, quick, and easy techniques are demonstrated for each topic.
Item #: EP2182
Video Length: 60 Minutes
Well worth adding to your library
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Julie's personality and attitude are infectious and get you into the mood to create. She gives you many options for creating fun textures and mediums to use.
She takes the scary out of being creative, so if you're hesitating to begin, like I was, this is a great workshop to get. She gives you freedom to explore and experiment and have fun. I enjoyed all the different techniques she taught and her positive attitude. These workshops are so worth it because you can pause them and play them as many times as you want.. I am looking forward to any other workshops she makes in the future.
A fabulous video. First, I enjoyed Julie's very natural manner and was doubly impressed that her descriptions and explanations seemed to anticipate every question that might arise. The workshop is so full of accessible techniques that I'm really glad I can watch it again and again. In fact, it's better value than an in-person class, just for this reason.
Great DVD--Full of Wonderful Ideas
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I buy any Interweave (or other) DVD that strikes my fancy on the theory that it is much cheaper than traveling to take a class. In fact, it's even cheaper than when Interweave's Bead Fest comes to *my hometown* and I take a class.
I'm a big fan of the work of Julie Fei-Fan Balzer. It's colorful, thought-provoking, and messy (in a good way). JFFB also has a great personality. If you were going to be marooned on an island, for example, you'd want her with you.
So I was happy to find that she'd filmed a DVD workshop for Cloth Paper Scissors entitled "Collage Fast & Furious!" I've already watched it twice, and I KNOW I want to watch it again--Julie gives you so many great tips, you can't absorb it all in one viewing.
One of the things I particularly liked was how she creates textured foundations on which to paint. You start with gesso--then slap into it with the paintbrush or draw lines with a plastic fork (as I did in the flower example on my blog). She also suggests "gluing" small pieces of batting on the gesso with more gesso (as I did with triangles).
I used water-soluble oil pastels for the flower art, then used a flower-shaped rubber stamp to "discharge" the background (spray, stamp, blot). For the triangles art I used chalk pastels which I rubbed in with my fingers, then used dark blue and white pastel around the triangles to really make them "pop" from the background.
I've done very little drawing or painting since I got my bachelor's degree in art lo those many years ago. And guess what? I love it! And I love this DVD.
Wonderful instruction - not much new though
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First, I'm not a big fan of Julie's primitive, 'outsider' art, but bought this because after seeing the preview her presentation style was just irresistible! She really makes you feel like you are there in the studio with her, and has a wonderful, outgoing, free-spirited presence and great sense of humour. I thoroughly enjoyed watching the video. However, I have to say that counter to what another reviewer said I don't think most 'professional artists' would learn much from this. The techniques are mostly familiar from dozens of other sources and there is nothing new in the way of design. That said, for a beginner or anyone who just wants to spend a fun afternoon with a cool instructor, this is a great value.
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