Tony Couch

Tony Couch has produced 10 "how-to" videos on drawing, design and watercolor painting - several are used in state educational systems in the US. He conducts 5 day watercolor painting seminars in the US and abroad. [Read more.]

Watercolor - Painting Barns in Watercolor by Tony Couch Price: $29.95 Rating: none Code: 22-TC1d

Watercolor - Painting Streams, Rocks, and Trees in Watercolor by Tony Couch Price: $29.95 Rating: none Code: 22-TC2d

Drawing - Drawing Landscapes with Pencil and Ink by Tony Couch Price: $29.95 Rating: none Code: 22-TC4d

Design - Elements and Principles of Design by Tony Couch Price: $29.95 Rating: none Code: 22-TC5d

Drawing - Learning Professional Techniques by Tony Couch Price: $29.95 Rating: none Code: 22-TC6d

Tony Couch's instructional video Painting Barns in Watercolor is an excellent resource to show how proper planning and design can be used in harmony to achieve elegant results.

Painting Streams, Rocks, and Trees in Watercolor teaches basic composition and watercolor painting, including a list of tools and processes used. Tony Couch makes the natural flow of the paint work!

In the Drawing instructional video, Learning Professional Techniques, Tony teaches and demonstrates the drawing techniques he feels are necessary to create a work of art, including contour drawing, creating a gesture drawing of a figure and developing one-point and two-point perspective from different views. 

Art Instruction Video PREVIEWS

Name			QuickTime	Windows Media	Learn more
	CP-TC1d	Tony Couch Painting Barns in Watercolor, Watercolor Instruction DVD	2.6 MB	4.3 MB	DVD
	CP-TC2d	Tony Couch Painting Streams, Rocks, and Trees in Watercolor, Watercolor Instruction DVD	2.4 MB	3.9 MB	DVD
	CP-TC6d	Tony Couch Drawing: Learning Professional Techniques, Drawing Instruction DVD	2.6 MB	3.6 MB	DVD

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A winner of over 70 exhibition awards, Tony Couch's work has been included in 3 annual exhibitions of the National Academy of Design and 11 art instruction publications by other authors in the US and UK.

Tony Couch received a BA degree in Art from the University of Tampa, did further work at Pratt Institute in New York while an artist for Associated Press, then for years freelanced and studied with Edgar A Whitney, ANA.

His book, WATERCOLOR: You Can Do It!, published by North Light in 1987 is now in its sixth printing, has become the publisher's all time best selling art book and is the textbook in several college art departments. It has also been published in Chinese for the international market. A "technique" book, published in 1991 has been published in English and Japanese. A third book, on design, was published in 1992.

Couch's watercolor instruction articles have appeared in several publications worldwide, including Palette Talk, North Light, American Artist, Australian Artist, The Artist, and Watercolor Magic.

Couch has been elected to membership in the Academic Artists Association, Allied Artists of America, Hudson Valley Art Association, Knickerbocker Artists, Salmgundi Club, Society of Marine Painters, Watercolor West, The Pittsburgh, Georgia, Southern, and Midwest watercolor societies as well as the Whiskey Painters of America.

For current workshop schedule and more, see Tony Couch's Website.

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