Art Essentials Oil Painting Set with Table EaselThis kit comes with essential art supplies for getting started with oil painting! The kit includes 12 tubes of oil paint (12ml each) 6 hog bristle brushes 1 solid wood table top easel 1 wooden palette 1 11-inch by 14-inch canvas board 1 11-inch by 14-inch stretched canvas 1 plastic palette knife and 1 artist tote/portfolio. The tote has a convenient handle optional shoulder strap and pockets to carry the easel paints brushes and supplies. A wonderful set for anyone who wants to start oil painting. It is also a terrific set for plein air artists novices and professionals alike!

Jack Richeson Full Box French Style Easel...An affordable French style easel imported from China by Jack Richeson & Company. Compact sturdy and convenient the French style easel is the most popular travel easel-carrying case ever made. Holds canvases up to 34-1/2". Weighs 10lbs 2 ounces. When these units first appeared on the US market they were very roughly constructed. The quality of today$#39;s easels has improved so dramatically over the years which has made these an incredible value at only $59.95.

YASUTOMO NIJI WATERBRUSH - A brush and water container in one. Portable and convenient for artists and students alike. Brush tip is made of nylon.

Rolando Villazon's follow-up CD to his sensational debut recital of Italian arias is devoted to music by Gounod and Massenet: some as familiar as Faust's, Romeo's and Des Grieux's arias, some as rare as pieces from Gounod's Polyeucte and La Reine de Saba and Massenet's Roma and Le Mage. But almost more important than the interesting repertoire, familiar or otherwise, is Villazon's handling of the music. In Werther's passionate Act II outburst to God about suicide, which is almost never excerpted, Villazon manages, in four minutes, to create a complete character, with all his neuroses, mania, and desperation--and he caps it with a ringing high B natural which is as beautiful as it is heartfelt. He sings both of Des Grieux's arias with feeling and tenderness (aided in "Le reve" by Natalie Dessay!). An aria from La Reine de Saba turns out to bequite a showpiece, with a drop-dead high C at its close. As singing and as interpreting, this CD is a must-have. Villazon's dark-hued, expressive tone is always used in the service of the music, and following his career will be a joy for all lovers of great tenorizing. --Robert Levine

Take an intense, 2-hr workshop with artist Stephen Quiller. He'll explain the important of the Quiller Color Wheel which enables you to mix true compelementary colors and develop semi-neutrals and true neutrals ("grays"). Quiller's innovative techniques improve your understanding of colors and how they work together to create a meaningful painting. Preparation, visualizing and experimenting with color are considered in this instructive, and very entertaining video. Also, you'll explore the world of painting en plein air and the joys, the challenges and techniques of successfully painting outdoors. You'll go on location with Quiller as he uses his innovative theory to capture the stunning beauty of the Colorado mountains.

In Episodes 4 -6, of Plein Air, Painting the American Landscape, viewers travel to Cape Cod, Taos New Mexico, Trinidad Colorado, Three Ponds Farm in Michigan, and the Irvine Museum in California. Painter and teacher Charles Sovek takes viewers to his summer home and studio on Cape Cod and paints on the docks of the Provincetown boat harbor. Contemporary Plein Air artist Ron Rencher introduces viewers to the rich and colorful history of Taos, New Mexico and opens the door for a look at how the Pueblo (Tewa) Indians, the Santa Fe Railroad and a group of academically trained, highly skilled artists from the East Coast came together to give birth to the Taos artists' colony that is still active today. Professional landscape painter Frank LaLumia demonstrates his command of both watercolors and oils as he paints the historic buildings of Trinidad, Colorado in watercolor, and uses oils at Three Ponds Farm in Central Michigan. Jean Stern, Executive Director of The Irvine Museum takes on a tour its extensive collection early Plein Air paintings.