Preparing To Paint Tall Ship Video Lesson

• Contains 2 hours of instructions
• Creating a Painting workstation
• Cleaning and Maintaining Brushes
• Overview of brushes you’ll need
• Overview of paints you’ll need
• Easels
• Canvas selection
• Ovals on a Rectangular Canvas.
• Demonstration of using Gesso for Background Color or Base,
• Use of mediums
• Use of reference photos and materials
• Everything you’ll need to prepare to paint Tall Ships.

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Sails Video Lesson

• Contains 2 hours of instructions
• Acquaints you with sail placements on the masts of tall ships
• Shows how to paint the front side of billowing sails.
• provides instructions on shadowing and light on sails
• Demonstrates how to paint rectangular sails
• Demonstrates how to paint jib sails
• Demonstrates how to paint studding sails
• Demonstrates how to paint
• Demonstrates the purposes of the spars
• Demonstrates how sailors were used to ‘turn’ or ‘add’ or ‘reduce’ sails

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Rigging Video Lesson

• Contains 2 hours of instructions
• A typical tall ship is equipped with over 5 miles of rigging (rope)
• Types of Rigging Covered
  • Mast
  • Square Sheet Sails
  • Jib Sails
  • Studding Sails
  • Spars
  • Spar Turns
  • Yard arm
  • Yard Lift
  • Walk Lines
  • Braces
  • Crows Nests

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Ship Shapes Video Lessons

• Contains 2 hours of instructions
• A Brief History of Tall Ships is provided to help with painting hulls.
• Emphasis is on 18th and 19th century ships
• Shows how to paint basic Hulls for Clippers, Brigs, Barks, Schooners, and Frigate
• Covers placement of ships on canvases
• Some attention is given to water as it reflects off hulls during the sailing process.

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The Cutty Sark Video Lesson

A Clipper ship is an extremely fast wooden, 3-mast, small cargo tall ship with square rigging (sails) that was quite popular during the middle third of the 19th century beginning around 1943. A transatlantic and transpacific ship, the most common use was shipping trade products from England to its colonies and China, as well as the New York to San Francisco routes.  Ship owners regained their investment typically within one round trip.  The Clipper essentially embraced the romance and passion of sailing during its lifetime for many Americans and British.

• Contains 4 hours of instructions
• This lesson shows how to paint a Clipper Ship’s front view
• The Cutty Sark can be seen in England today.  a Rare survivor
• This is the first of 3 lessons that will have you painting three different views of a Tall Ship.
• You will learn how to paint the rigging that would be seen from a front view
• Includes information on how to design oceans and skies for a tall ship painting
• Ocean spray and splash are covered in detail as the Clipper cuts its path.
• In this lesson you will complete an entire painting.

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The Flying Cloud Video Lessons

The Flying Cloud is one of the most famous clippers of all time.  It’s Captain, Creese, often brought his wife on the New York to San Francisco route.  She served as the ship navigator, which was unheard of in those days.  Yet twice she broke the world record for the fastest time between New York and San Francisco.

• Contains 4 hours of instructions
• This lesson shows how to paint a Clipper Ship’s side view
• According to legend after 40-45 years of service (a typical tall ship’s lifetime) the Flying Cloud ran aground and was burned.
• This is the second of 3 lessons that will have you painting three different views of a Tall Ship.
• You will learn how to paint the rigging that would be seen from a side view
• In this lesson you will complete an entire painting

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The Mighty Clipper Video Lessons

Relaxing in Gloucester, MA one evening my wife and I happened to come across an elegant little café in which the owner had a large number of ‘scaled’ ship models on display.  I was extremely fascinated by the Flying cloud model and took photos from every conceivable angle.  In this video lesson you’ll paint the rear view of a clipper ship thereby completing ‘your walk about’ the clipper ship.

• Contains 4 hours of instructions
• This lesson shows how to paint a Clipper Ship’s rear view
• According to legend after 40-45 years of service (a typical tall ship’s lifetime) the Flying Cloud ran aground and was burned.
• This is the third of 3 lessons that will have you painting three different views of a Tall Ship.
• You will learn how to paint the rigging that would be seen from a rear view
• You will learn how to paint sails billowing opposite of the front view.
• In this lesson you will complete an entire painting

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2-Mast Brig Video Lessons

The Brig is generally a 2-mast, squared rigged tall ships whose use has been traced as far back as the 17th century.  Use of this ship has been either naval combat or as a merchant cargo ship.  It is fast and maneuverable.  This latter trait made the Brig quite attractive as a naval vessel carrying 10-12 guns.  Although quite a popular pirates’ ship, very few American or Caribbean pirates had Brigs.  The problem with the Brig is the large crew required.

• Contains 4 hours of instructions
• Teaches how to paint a side view of a Tall Ship
• The particular view here shows the decking and cabin of the Brig, so the student learns how to add these elements to a painting.
• This is a sepia style painting and the student learns how to alter values to achieve form, shape and drama.
• In this lesson you will complete an entire painting

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Top Sail Schooner Video Lessons

Schooners evolved from a number of 2-masted, gaff-rigged vessels in the late 1600s.  They quickly became the vessel of choice for coastal voyages.  They carried a respectable amount of cargo and required few men in the crew. Most schooners were working ships, but a number of very wealthy businessmen outfitted them as luxury crafts for pleasure and travel.  Ships did not need a second mast unless they were 50 feet or longer, thus the schooner is the low–end of Multi-mast Tall Ships.  They were called sloops or cutters if the ship size could only support one mast.

• Contains 4 hours of instructions
• This lesson teaches he components of one of America’s most popular coastal tall ships.
• The schooner is often considered the ‘semi’ of the seas
• The painting is a side view to illustrate the rear gaff sail construction typical of schooners.
• In this lesson you will complete an entire painting

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5-Mast Bark Video Lesson

This ship is also known as a barc or barque.  From 1605 until today, people have had difficulty defining exactly what is a bark.  It typically meant any 3-mast plus ship which didn’t fit the definition of other Tall Ship categories and had a certain sail plan (arrangement of sails).  The bark required a small crew, held a good cargo and could outperform a brig or a schooner.  To help with speed, 4- and 5-mast versions of the Bark were built in the 1800’s.  Many have survived to this day.  The optimum tall ship is the 4-Mast Bark, according to many ancient seamen.  This painting illustrates

• Contains 4 hours of instructions
• This lesson teaches the components of one of America’s most agile tall ships.
• The bark is often considered the most perfect Tall Ships on the seas
• The painting is a side view to illustrate the sail plan typical associated to a bark.
• In this lesson you will complete an entire painting

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Pirates Ahoy! Video Lesson

We all remember Peter Pan and his Captain Hook’s valiant pirates.  Every young man I know wants a pirate ship painting.  The golden era of Pirates in America lasted only about 75 years beginning in 1650 and ending in the mid 1720s with the death of Blackbeard.  Legend claims Blackbeard to have nearly 200 followers and a largest fleet of pirates ships, one 10-gun brigantine, a 12-gun brigantine and a 42-gun retrofitted French merchant gun, Blackbeard’s Queen Ann’s Revenge.

• Contains 4 hours of instructions
• This is a rear view composition with sails wildly snapping in the wind.
• This is a painting designed specifically to show the student how to paint a nigh-time Tall Ship using a pre-primed dark canvas.
• Teaches how to use black Gesso
• Introduces how to paint a glowing moon.
• Teaches simplicity in a Tall Ship
• In this lesson you will complete an entire painting

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USS Constitution Video Lessons

• Contains 4 hours of instructions
• This lesson teaches four of additional trends in painting Tall Ships:
  • The power of a dramatic horizon.
  • Simplicity
  • Adding boat(s)
  • Including people
• Demonstrates how to combine all four elements above into a Tall Ship.
• Shows how to capture the beauty of a simple vacation photo
• In this lesson you will complete an entire painting

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