We are producers and distributors of
Educational TEACH YOURSELF Art, Craft, Hobby Videos and CD Roms
promoting Australian Artists and Craftspeople Worldwide.

We aim to provide the necessary information to professional
and those just starting out to develop their artistic skills.

In our collection of over 60 topics we have videos on Watercolour Painting,
Oils, Pastels, Charcoal, Calligraphy, Sumi-e, Pottery, Sculpture,
Applique, Embroidery, Cyanotype Fabric Blue Printing,
Patchwork and Quiltmaking etc...

Our Artists are professionals in their own field - their
awards and commendations are many.

Some of these Artists are:

Charles Billich

Charles Billich came to Australia in 1956. Attended Salzburg Academy,
National Gallery Art School, R.M.I.T. and the University of the Philippines Art School.

Charles Billich has yearly exhibitions in New York, Los Angeles, Spoleto, Sydney and Melbourne and is:

The City of Melbourne Portrait Artist, First Fleet Re-enactment Artist, as well as a Bicentenary projects.
In Italy 1987 he was awarded the Spoleto Prize.

Billich is fascinated by the urban landscape, even though he prefers country living.
He celebrates these monuments to human folly by means of his cityscapes, his shorthanded
views of many world centres. Obsessed by the subject he is working on many projects.

At times accused of being mechanical and set-designing, Billich defends himself
with epistemological arguments. By themselves, his cities don't represent a career ambition,
but are environmental cadenzas which one, we hope in a not too distant future, will result in
a consistent rhythm of ethereal situation, thus creating a distinct and motivated surreal language.

But he is more versatile than that. We can see his virtuoso versatility expressed
in theatrical inventions on ballet and surreal mis-en-scene.

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Portraiture, the figurative and maritime are other "fortes".

Melbourne has inspired Billich for many years. He sees the beauty in its architecture, its rivers and parks.

His paintings are in Queensland Art Gallery, Exhibition Building Trust, RAAF, City of Melbourne,
Art Bank, National Bank and many Private and Corporate Collections.

Billich Gallery

DEMONSTRATION VIDEO, CD ROM & DVD No.45.
Sketching Life Figure, Nude, Portraiture and City Scapes.

Jo Armstrong

With ten years experience, using porcelain as her canvas, Jo displays her artistic talent.
The China painter has added craft of kiln firing the art works.



Jo Armstrong trained in art at the Methodist Ladies' College
and Technical College, Launceston -Tasmania

She studied China painting with Moira Treacher and at seminars
with artists from Australia and Overseas.

Highly commended by Harold Freedman - Judge, at the Caulfield Quota Exhibition.

Jo Armstrong received Awards in 1983, 1984, 1985.

Her artistic works are in many collections throughout Australia and Overseas.

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DEMONSTRATION VIDEO or CD ROM No. 24.
China painting techniques, mixing colours, glazing etc..

Richard Weatherly


Richard Weatherly has been described as "one of the three finest young bird artists in the world....
an indefatigable field biologist in his own right, he brings rare detail and sparkling colour to his birds,
revealing a deep understanding and affection for them."

Dr. Lester L. Short, Chairman,
Department of Ornithology, American Museum of Natural History, March 1882.

Richard Weatherly was born in 1947 and brought up on a sheep station near Mortlake
in western Victoria, where he still lives. He was educated at Geelong Grammar School and
always had a deep interest in drawing and wood-carving. While at Cambridge University he carved
two animals out of an old gunstock. These were immediately sold in London and, thus encouraged,
Richard decided to concentrate on his artwork.

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His paintings are a natural progression from the working sketches he made from his carvings.

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In England Richard was greatly assisted by David Reid Henry,
one of the greatest bird painters of the times, and spend several months working with him.

Richard first exhibited paintings with the Society of Wildlife Artists of Great Britain
and in the World Wildlife Exhibition at London's Sladmore Gallery in 1970.
After spending much of 1971 in Zimbabwe, he held his first one-man exhibition,
of British and African wildlife, at the Sladmore Gallery. In 1972 he exhibited paintings in the
"Bird Artists of Today" exhibition, followed by a second one-man exhibition,
again at the Sladmore Gallery, at the end of the year.

On his return to Australia he was a founding member of the Society of Wildlife Artists
of Australasia and was President for the first four years. For eight years he travelled extensively
throughout Australia and Papua New Guinea working on his illustrations for the monograph
"The Fairy Wrens". This was published in 1982 concurrent with an one-man exhibition of the paintings
and drawings held in Melbourne. In 1984 Richard held another one-man exhibition
at the "Australian Galleries", Melbourne. In 1985 he was invited to Canada and the
United States to do the field work for a commission for Ducks Unlimited (Canada);
to paint the American Wood Duck for their Limited Edition Folio of "North American Waterfowl".
In 1986 Richard's paintings "Avocets" was accepted for exhibition by the prestigious
Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum's "Birds in Art" show in Wausau, Wisconsin.
The painting was one of only fifty to be chosen for a year-long tour that began at the
Frye Art Museum in Seattle and ended at the Beijing Natural History Museum in Beijing,
China. This was the first major exhibition of western wildlife art to show in China.

Richard is an Honorary Associate in Ornithology at the Museum of Victoria, Australia.
His paintings are in many Institutions and Private Collections throughout the world.

DEMONSTRATION VIDEO or CD ROM No. 31.
Sketching in the field and taking ideas and turning it into a painting using watercolour and gouache.

Esther Erlich


Esther Erlich was born 1955 in Melbourne - Australia. She studied at Melbourne
State College and Chisholm College, graduating with Dip. Ed. and Diploma in Fine Arts.

Her artistic talents have been displayed in the designing of Catalogues,
Stage Sets, Costume and Theatre Art works.

Painting in acrylics Esther's flamboyant style brings to her

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charactures both a humorous and provocative quality.

DEMONSTRATION VIDEO No. 21.
Painting in acrylics.

Ron Russell Fletcher


Russell Fletcher was born in Melbourne, 1925. A teaching scholarship enabled him to study
art at Caulfield and Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology under tutors of such note as
Harold Freedman and the late John Rowell. After some years as an art teacher, he moved into
the art of advertising: firstly in a freelance capacity, and later as an art director of a
Melbourne Advertising Agency. He toured overseas and for a period of four years
was manager and art director of an art studio in Toronto, Canada.

On his return to Australia he established his own art service and successfully managed
that business until his retirement. He was a foundation member of the Melbourne Art Directors Club,
and served on the Australian Stamp Advisory Committee. He has also been a part-time
lecturer in graphic art at R.M.I.T. and as a designer, has two series of stamps to his credit.
Russell Fletcher has works in collections throughout Australia. U.K., U.S.A., Europe and Japan.


Using all media but specialising in watercolour- winning over forty prizes in this medium.

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He works in all media and has gained numerous commendations and awards.

His works are represented in municipal, corporate
and private collections in Australia, Japan, Europe, U.K. and Canada.

DEMONSTRATION VIDEO or CD ROM No. 59
" Seascape in Watercolour - Reflections, Water, Boats "

Also available

DEMONSTRATION VIDEO No. 2
" Rural Landscape in Watercolour "

Susan Hall


Susan Hall is an accomplished artist of the renowned Meldrum method of tonal painting.

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The relationship between form, colour and tone is clearly evident in her work.


Susan Hall is a member of the Victorian Artists' Society and Sherbrooke Art Society.

AWARDS
1981 Lilydale - 1 st., 1983 Altona - Special Award, 1983 Sherbrooke - "A" Grade,

1985 Sherbrooke - 1 st., 1985 - Ford Art Prize, 1985 Lilydale - 2nd.


HIGHLY COMMENDED

Ringwood, Lilydale, Tom Roberts Award, Geelong, Belgrave, Croydon,
Maryborough, Mooroolbark and Royal Melbourne Show.


Her painting are represented in many private collections throughout Australia and Overseas.

DEMONSTRATION VIDEO No. 13
Preparing, setting up and painting a Studio Still Life in oils - Tonal Method

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