Trees Company
Price:  $32.99
Length:  184 minutes
Step By Step Instruction
 

I love birdhouses!  I can picture lots of different ways to create patterns from pictures taken while I am out and about!  TREES COMPANY was designed from a really unique birdhouse built by George Boerboom from Monroe Michigan.  Linda [his wife] owns a wonderful porcelain studio in her home and I was conducting a pen and ink class there.  We all went out into her back yard to spray our canvas pieces and I saw this wonderful structure.  I had mentioned that it would make a really great pen and ink design and Tina Wiese went out and got me a photo!  That was all it took to create this packet.  I popped it into the projector, traced it and everything came together wonderfully!  The patterns for tracing are in the folded pamphlet that is packaged on the front section of the case.  We review pen care and maintenance, prepping different types of surfaces, and step by step instruction regarding the ink as well as adding the rouging.  Skip the intro if desired and go right to the project, or review the rouging steps before tackling the addition of color so you can make sure you are on track!  No more rewinding!  Just point and click!

Four Seasons Glass
Price:  $32.99
Length:  219 minutes
Step By Step Instruction
 

I am sure you will enjoy the step by step demonstrations using all of the etching products I incorporate in the projects I teach.  Etching is easy to do and the results allow you to work with pen and ink and rouged oils, acrylic stroke work, side-loading, enamels, and just about any form of decorative painting imaginable!  I will show you how the RESIST gel works in conjunction with the ETCHING CRÈME and DIP N’ ETCH.  B&B products are safer to use than conventional etching materials and both the crème and liquid can be put back into the containers to be used over and over with wonderful results!  The project demonstration will give you enough info and technique so you can apply what we cover in the DVD to other glass designs!  As included in the other project DVDs; we also cover prepping alternative surfaces, review of the tech pen and it’s care and maintenance, an overview of the rouging concept so you can review and brush up on technique whenever you feel it necessary.  The greatest convenience too is no rewinding!  Just click and move ahead or back.  The pamphlet on the front slides out and opens up so your patterns for tracing are there for you to work with.  Remember; you do not have to adapt these designs to glass alone.  You can enlarge or reduce and put them onto wood pieces, canvas, or even slate!
 

Kopy Art Projector
Price:  $24.99
Length:  52 minutes
Step By Step Instruction

So, you want to learn how to use the opaque projector!  The KOPYART projector by KopyKake is one of the best tools I use to create realistic designs.  I walk you through the entire process starting by unpacking and assembling your machine, plugging it in, how to use the lens to enlarge and reduce and many other steps that will make tracing and adapting your designs in decorative painting become fun and less of a drudge.  I have always felt frustration with the entire tracing and transferring chore and graphite paper can be very aggravating.  You will not have to go back and forth to the copy machine constantly, by reducing your patterns one final time to measure approximately 4” x 6”; you can then pop them into the machine and reflect them onto wood, canvas, slate, walls, sweatshirts, gourds [Yes! The pattern wraps around round objects!]

Lot’s of shortcuts, demonstrations and step by step instructions to help you remember all of the wonderful things you can do with this wonderful tool!
 

The Milkhouse
Price:  $ 32.99
Length:  210 minutes
Step By Step Instruction

 

The Milk House was designed from a photo that was given to me several years ago.  This DVD will take you through the steps in the inking process and completing the rouging as well. As always; the pattern for tracing and completing the project is folded into the pamphlet that is behind the cover page.  Just lay it on the copy machine to size up or down to whatever surface choice you decide on.  We also cover prepping different surfaces and I will remind you to make sure you use enough sealer to allow for correction work with your cotton swabs and glass cleaner containing ammonia!  Just like the other project DVDs; we review pen care, review of the oil rouging technique, and prepping demonstrations. Feel free to experiment with your own color choices and try to work on different surface choices as well.  Email me if you have any questions.

Last Days of Autumn
Price:  $ 32.99
Length:  175 minutes
Step By Step Instruction
 

Another bird house!  LAST DAYS OF AUTUMN was designed from a really old weathered birdhouse that was hung on a tree in our back yard while we were living in Clarkston, Michigan for several years.  I had a lot of fun adapting this and adding the fall leaves!  You can experiment with other color additions, enlarge the pattern that comes folded in the pamphlet so you can adapt the project to a wood piece, slate, or canvas.  We cover lots of info on the technique regarding the inking, taking care of the tech pens, and how to store them when you are done using them.  We cover prepping different types of surfaces and details and helpful hints for keeping those pens working and what to do to take really good care of your brushes.  I love using my projector to design from photos, and you can learn some of these tricks of the trade as well!