Super special three-episode DVD! Join former Disney illustrator Mark Marderosian as he takes viewers to visit with a real pilot, journey to the fire station and pay a visit to the auto museum. Then, return back to the drawing studio to learn how to draw such wonderful things as a jet plane, a helicopter, an antique car, a fire truck and more.

"Discover your own artistic ability and experience the joy of drawing, a skill anyone can learn. Create landscapes, portraits, still lifes, and more"--Container of DVDs.

"Learn Marc's simple steps to draw and paint an exciting landscape vista on location in pencil, pen, and watercolor. After a review of sketching gear and strategy, follow Marc as he simplifies the subject by drawing key landmarks to establish the composition. Then start in on the real fun using ink to add the details, brush pen to add form and build shapes, and watercolor to characterize and add life to the view"--Container.

Calling all colors! From painting and drawing to mixing colors, kids will discover the art of color identification with these six Nick Jr. play dates! They'll jump into coloring books with Dora and the Wonder Pets, they₂ll learn color mixing with the Bubble Guppies and Blue, and they'll search for colorful shape pieces with Team Umizoomi!

How to capture light is a major preoccupation for artists, and each has a different way of accomplishing the task. Although John Greenwood paints still lifes of imaginary objects, he is nevertheless determined to paint them as though they were sitting in natural light. On a fishing boat, Len Tabner tackles the challenge of adapting to changing light. How artists such as Masaccio, Turner, and Monet used light in their work is discussed.

In this charming sequence of 1972 film excerpts, a passionately creative octogenarian named Anna Shafer imparts the narrative meanings behind her intriguing drawings and describes how she goes about producing them. The visual focus is on the artwork while the audio track consists of Schafer's unabashed commentary, guided by direct yet unobtrusive questions from an interviewer. Demonstrating the many ways in which art-making can enrich and give meaning...

Anti-entropy as it applies to art - think of it as a sort of explosion in reverse - results, ultimately, in the annihilation of creativity because each step toward the completion of a project rules out more and more of the random possibilities of what that project otherwise might have been. "The infinite becomes finite," says Kentridge in this lecture, as he seeks an answer to the question "Can we avoid the end of all potentiality?" A partial performance...

An excerpt from William Kentridge's animated film rendition of Mozart's opera The Magic Flute sets the stage for this lecture in which he builds upon observations elucidated in Drawing Lesson One to argue that colonialism - with all its inherent brutality - is the logical culmination of 18th-century Enlightenment thought. "Every act of enlightenment - " says Kentridge, "all ambitions to save souls, all the basic impulses - is so dogged by the weight...

The idea that uncertainty and improvisation in art can help in negotiating the dangerous passage between passive acceptance and authoritarian subjugation is a theme that William Kentridge continues to expound upon in Drawing Lesson Four. He uses his short film Journey to the Moon - a tribute, in part, to George Méliès' 1902 cinematic classic La Voyage dans la Lune - as a part of a discussion praising cinema as an art form that exemplifies, as stated...

Color adds beauty to our lives and helps us express our deepest feelings, but what exactly is it? This video lays out the scientific principles at the heart of that question, examining the relationship between light and color, the physical and chemical properties that create it, and the ways in which humans and animals perceive it. Viewers are shown how light can be broken down into component colors-or, more accurately, wavelengths-and are given simple...