Learn to paint in watercolor with Gerald Brommer

Follow watercolor artist Gerald Brommer as he chooses a subject, makes a preliminary design on location, then completes a watercolor painting in his studio. In this watercolor instruction video, Exploring Watercolor from Location to Studio, Gerald teaches you to paint in a way that gives the viewer the true essence of a place. [continued…]

Exploring Watercolor from Location to Studio

Gerald Brommer's easy style and unhurried decisions make painting a seascape near Monterey a relaxing, enjoyable, and informative experience to watch as he shares the reasoning behind his choices, and demonstrates how to re-evaluate or self-correct within the process.

Gerald leads you through his thought processes, preliminary design on location, choices of what to include and leave out, his re-assessing choices back in the studio, and finally, carrying the painting to completion with added color and interest. He is most concerned with what needs to be done within a painting to leave the viewer with the essence, the feeling, of a place. He looks for drama, relationships, use of space, moving from a simple and quiet beginning to the complex and compelling finished piece of art work.

Gerald Brommer insists that the pieces create the painting, not to reproduce the scene. He uses the elements of the scene to gain a feeling of place. Color, lights and darks, lines, overlap, clean rules of perspective all contribute to the result. Gerald demonstrates a fluid process as well as how to re-evaluate and self-correct within the process. Once back in the studio with his preliminary composition for reference he works with a variety of brushes in one hand and a tissue in the other as two equal tools. He says “the road to success is paved with failures...fix it!.” He shows creative methods for “fixing” it!

Gerald definitely enjoys his work, and viewers will enjoy what they learn from this Crystal Productions watercolor instruction DVD. This video will leave artists at all skill levels with a “can-do” confidence.