THE TALL SHIPS HAVE SET SAIL - Message from Darrell Crow:

Over one year, in the making, it’s exciting to announce that the Basic Techniques of Oil Painting Tall Ship series have set sail and will be arriving in port on November 15, 2007. (That's the US Port, not Southampton Port - there will be a postage delat before these items dock in the UK).

There has never been a painting series announced like this anywhere.

This is an industry first.

And the best news of all, I’ve found that for the average artist, Tall Ship paintings are in demand and command higher sales prices than landscapes, seascapes, florals and others by a wide, wide margin.

Anybody can paint these Tall Ships. Even if you’ve never painted before. Even if you absolutely believe you do not have an ounce of talent in your entire body.

Darrell has broken down the methodology of painting tall ships so that they’re easier than anything he has ever taught. Just four simple steps.

The Basic Techniques of Oil Painting Tall Ships features Darrell Crow as the artist. Darrell goes through each step of painting tall ships with clear, concise, easy to follow instructions.

And what’s more, for the first time every…..we used 3 professional video cameras to film all of the action. Sometimes we even used four cameras. At all times one camera was at a fixed position encompassing the entire canvas while another camera was constantly following Darrell’s every stroke with extraordinary close-ups. A Third camera was placed over the palette so you could see exactly how Darrell mixed colors and loaded the brushes. What all this means to you is the best possible instructions. It’s like you’re sitting right next to Darrell catching every single stroke he makes and every single word.

And for even more good news………..the techniques are applicable to either traditional oils, water mixable oils, or acrylics. Most of the techniques are shown in oils, but when it does matter, for example: painting sails, Darrell shows how to adapt the painting of sails to acrylic in the ‘Sails’ video.

All films have been completed and are in final editing right now.

Darrell will be making his public announcement on November 1, 2007 with US shipments no later than Nov. 15, 2007. (Again, allow for a little extra time for the UK shipments to commence)

BUT ….

To all of my students I am pre-announcing the Tall Ship series to give you first crack at the videos AND a special price AND special bonuses.

This has been one of the most exciting film series we’ve ever done….. Lots of field trips, lots of interviews, lots of research which we share. In July, 2007, for example, we rented a huge boat and toured Newport, RI harbor for over six hours taking some of the most incredible films and photos of over 20 Tall Ships at the Rhode Island 2007 Grand Parade of Sails. These featured schooners, fully-rigged sail ships like the clipper, barks, and brigs and many other ships.

We filmed some unbelievable close-ups circling around legendary tall ships so we could give you extraordinary reference materials. These videos are included in our series.

We even visited the replica of the Mayflower in Plymouth, MA, the USS Constitution in Boston, MA, which is America’s longest commissioned war vessel and other tall ships like the Friendship berthed in Salem, MA.

Let’s briefly review what’s included in your purchase of this Tall Ship Series.

Basic Techniques of Oil Painting Tall Ships.

Video #1: Preparation for Oil Painting Tall Ships.
A Standard with Darrell’s instructional videos. We go over the brushes, paints, mediums, canvas, and miscellaneous supplies you’ll need to paint. We go over how to set up your workstation and prepare canvases. Also we talk about all of the reference materials available on painting tall ships and how you can obtain these references yourself. Darrell’s 4-step methodology for painting any tall ship is thoroughly explained.

Video #2: Basic Techniques of Oil Painting Tall Ships: Sails
This video goes into the basic 4 types of sails you’ll commonly find on fully rigged tall ships including the square rigged sails, the jib, stay sails, and spanker. Darrell goes into how to blend with oils and how to determine the colors used and paints examples so the student can practice, practice, practice. Different than most oil paintings, the tall ship techniques are fairly straightforward for either oils, watercolors or acrylics. Except for sails, skies and water. So Darrell demonstrates not only how to paint the sails in oils, he shows how to adapt these same oil techniques to acrylics.

Video #3: Basic Techniques of Oil Painting Tall Ships: Rigging
This video really ties together the painting of Tall Ships. The fully rigged ships with three masts, six squares high, with jibs, studding sails and stay sails will utilize upward to 7 miles of rope. That’s a lot of liner work. But, whew! You don’t have to paint anywhere near that amount of rigging. This video condenses down all of the rigging into two essential types of rigging. Support Rigging and Control Rigging. Support Rigging are those ropes that support the mast or sailor. The Control Rigging allow sailors to reposition spars and sails to catch the wind at the absolute correct angle. This video reduces all of the complexities of rigging into a few simple lines that will generally be visible on ships with all of their sails unfurled and bending to the wind. To illustrate each rope, Darrell takes a simple drawing of a ship without any sails, just spars and masts and shows how to paint each type of line. This video alone is worth the entire price of the series.

Video #4: Basic Techniques of Oil Painting Tall Ships: Ship Shapes
More of a historical overview, this video traces the history of the tall ships from the 1450’s through 1900. The painting projects selected for the Tall Ship Series were dominate in the 1800’s. This era has frequently been referenced as the “Romantic Tall Ship era.” And rightfully so. With the advent of the steam engine powered ship, the Tall Ships entered their last 100 years as the dominate vessel of the high seas. But we’ve never lost our love for those romantic vessels. A Sailor, a 150 years ago, didn’t simply plot a course and set sail. Their life was one of constant correction…..navigating, estimating, ocean currents, wind currents, doldrums, time of year, weather and so many other factors. Darrell traces all of this out for you throughout the series. The advent of the square rig sail began the era of ‘Tall Ships’. Any many historians tout the 1450 Caravel as the first tall ship. Darrell begins with the Caravel and sketches how the evolution of ship designs every 100 years to today’s modern super-sail ship.

Video #5: Basic Techniques of Oil Painting Tall Ships: Cutty Sark
An extraordinary clipper ship built in the UK in the mid-1800s and still around. Currently berthed in Greenwich, England, this 3 mast ship is billed as the last great tea clipper. It is currently undergoing reconstruction. Wooden tall ships had an average life expectancy of 30 years. That’s why so many are no longer around. The Cutty Sark is a beautiful reminder of an era long, long ago and it is only fitting that this ship is the first painting project for the series. It features a front view of a 5 sails high, three mast clipper. This is a 2-DVD disk set featuring over 4 hours of clear, concise and detailed instructions.

Video #6: Basic Techniques of Oil Painting Tall Ships: The Flying Cloud Side View.
American built in New England this is the world’s most famous clipper. In 1826, historians credit the Americans with taking the Packet ship design and building a sleeker, narrower and aerodynamically proven ‘clipper’ ship that would have a smaller cargo space, but dramatically increased speed. The clipper fulfilled this promise and propelled American ship designers to the forefront of technology. The Flying Cloud made her maiden voyage in 1851 and literally stunned the world with her record of sailing from New York City to San Francisco by way of the horn around Argentina in 89 days. She broke her own record by a few hours two years later. That record was never broken by a tall ship for the next 100 plus years. In fact, the only ship breaking the Flying Cloud record was a trimirand not too many years ago. This painting is a full, side-view, complete with jibs, squares, studding sails and stay sails. This is a must paint ship set in a picturesque setting as the Flying Cloud passes a New England lighthouse in the distance. Again, this is a 2-DVD disk set featuring over 4 hours of clear, concise and detailed instructions.

Video #7: Basic Techniques of Oil Painting Tall Ships: The Flying Cloud Back View.
The Clipper Ship is Darrell’s favorite ship to paint and this series could not be completed without showing you how to paint the clipper in three different views. The front view, the side view and the back view. With this rendition, you’ll be able to see how the Mizenmast is structured with its three segments, the crow’s nest, the spars and the control riggings rarely visible from either the front or side views. Darrell visited a former sailor in Marblehead, MA, who specialized in building museum quality ship models. The Flying Cloud he built is of exact proportions taken from studying the log books and reading expert opinions from respected authors on their estimates of the Flying Cloud specifications. Darrell took many photos of the models and composed this particular painting from these studies. Again, this is a 2-DVD disk set featuring over four hours of clear, concise and detailed instructions.

So let’s just review what’s in the Basic Techniques of Oil Painting Tall Ships Series

1. Video #1: Preparation for Oil Painting Tall Ships. This is a £15.00 value (incl p&p to Europe)
2. Video #2: Basic Techniques of Oil Painting Tall Ships: Sails. This is a £15.00 value (incl p&p to Europe)
3. Video #3: Basic Techniques of Oil Painting Tall Ships: Rigging. This is a £15.00 value (incl p&p to Europe)
4. Video #4: Basic Techniques of Oil Painting Tall Ships: Ship Shapes. £15.00 value (incl p&p to Europe)
5. Video #5: Basic Techniques of Oil Painting Tall Ships: Cutty Sark. This is a £30.00 value (incl p&p to Europe)
6. Video #6: Basic Techniques of Oil Painting Tall Ships: The Flying Cloud Side View. This is a £30.00 value (incl p&p to Europe)
7. Video #7: Basic Techniques of Oil Painting Tall Ships: The Flying Cloud Back View. This is a £30.00 value (incl p&p to Europe)
8. Downloadable Instructions for Darrell’s 4-part method for painting Tall Ships
9. Downloadable Patterns for each of the tall ships will be provided.
10. Downloadable Written historical over of each of the tall ships feature will be provided.
11. Downloadable Photos of each of the tall ships paintings Darrell has done will be provided.
12. Downloadable Glossary of Marine Terms For Painting Tall Ships

This is a total value of £150.00 value (incl p&p to Europe) of the best instructional video available anywhere.

I know. I did promise you a very special price because you’re my students. But it wouldn’t be fair to quote you a price right now….Why?

Because there’s more.

I have a bonus video if you’re ready to buy the entire set and not the individual DVDS.

BUY THE SET BONUS VIDEO: Basic Techniques of Oil Painting Tall Ships: 2-Mast Brig
Quick to maneuver, easy to man, low-cost and serving as both a merchant vessel and a man-of-war, the 2-Mast brig was a very popular tall ship in the 1800’s. The US deployed many of these ships as 14-18 gun vessels for coastal protection and even the great lakes. This painting is a full side-view portrait of this popular tall ship as a merchant vessel. This is a great painting for practice, and is very east to paint. It features four jibs and two masts, the foremast and main mast. This painting is quite different from the other ships in this series as its entirely in brown tones. The video is a 2-DVD disk set featuring over four hours of clear, concise and detailed instructions.

This is a £30.00 value (incl p&p to Europe)which is yours without cost just for ordering the entire set. This means the total value of the Tall Ship Series is now £180 (incl p&p to Europe)

Ready?

What if I gave you another bonus?

A bonus for just being a student of mine and willing to place your order now for shipment on Nov. 5, 2007……?

PREANNOUNCEMENT SPECIAL BONUS VIDEO: Basic Techniques of Oil Painting Tall Ships: 5-Mast Bark
The last half of the 1800s saw a number of superstructures being built. Mostly to compete with steamships and even larger cargo capacities. Some ships were being designed with 5, 7 or even 9 masts. We’ve taken one of the most popular ship designs around the turn of the century, a 5-mast bark (or is it barque – historians differ) and shown you how to paint this complex, stunning tall ships utilizing Darrell’s 4-step procedure. A dramatic sky is included and again, the video is a 2-DVD disk set featuring over four hours of clear, concise and detailed instructions.

This is a £30.00 value (incl p&p to Europe) value which is yours without cost just for taking us up on this pre-announcment offer. This means the total value of the Tall Ship Series is now £210.00

So let’s just review what’s in the Basic Techniques of Oil Painting Tall Ships Series

1. Video #1: Preparation for Oil Painting Tall Ships.
2. Video #2: Basic Techniques of Oil Painting Tall Ships: Sails.
3. Video #3: Basic Techniques of Oil Painting Tall Ships: Rigging.
4. Video #4: Basic Techniques of Oil Painting Tall Ships: Ship Shapes.
5. Video #5: Basic Techniques of Oil Painting Tall Ships: Cutty Sark.
6. Video #6: Basic Techniques of Oil Painting Tall Ships: The Flying Cloud Side View.
7. Video #7: Basic Techniques of Oil Painting Tall Ships: The Flying Cloud Back View.
8. BUY THE SET BONUS VIDEO: Basic Techniques of Oil Painting Tall Ships: 2-Mast Brig.
9. PREANNOUNCEMENT SPECIAL BONUS VIDEO: Basic Techniques of Oil Painting Tall Ships: 5-Mast Bark.
10. Downloadable Instructions for Darrell’s 4-part method for painting Tall Ships
11. Downloadable Patterns for each of the tall ships will be provided.
12. Downloadable Written historical over of each of the tall ships feature will be provided.
13. Downloadable Photos of each of the tall ships paintings Darrell has done will be provided.
14. Downloadable Glossary of Marine Terms For Painting Tall Ships

We now have 14, 2-hour DVDs valued at £210.00 (incl,p&p to Europe) for the entire offering. I did promise you not only a special price for buying the set, but a special price for being a student of mine…. Drum roll please……………….

Wait a minute…

How about another bonus for being one of the first 100 to purchase this entire set?

Or two bonuses?

Would you like that……?

OK.

FIRST 100 PURCHASERS SPECIAL VIDEO BONUS: Basic Techniques of Oil Painting Tall Ships: Top Sail Schooner.
America is the schooner king. This ship received its name from an audience outburst when the ship was first publically displayed. A spectator, upon seeing the ship skim the surface yelled out, “Look at her schoon!” The name stuck and today, with few of the schooners preserved from the Romantic Days of the Tall Ships, we honor her long history and tradition with this sideview painting. In fact, I’m told there was a time when the US had nearly 10,000 schooners registered just iThn the Great Lakes Region alone. These ships could be manned by a single sailor in an emergency. They were ideal for small fishermen and shipping merchants. As time went by there were fishing schooners, racing schooners, coastal schooners, top-sail schooners, Inner-waterway schooner, long-haul schooners and merchant schooners. This painting features a bright setting sun behind the schooner in a dazzling display of light and color. Also a four-hour, 2-DVD offering, this bonus is valued at £30.00 value (incl p&p to Europe)

FIRST 100 PURCHASERS SECOND SPECIAL VIDEO BONUS: Basic Techniques of Oil Painting Tall Ships: Pirates Ahoy!
Sail the Seas! Beholden to no country! Wine, Women and Song a plenty in every port! What child hasn’t dreamed of being the fearsome pirate. In reality, pirates lead anything but a glamorous life. Throughout the 1700’s and 1800’s they roamed the American shorelines and plagued the seas in North, Central and South America. Often paid handsomely by some countries to raid their enemies, a pirate’s life was nowhere near as glamorous as Hollywood would have you believe. Most were pirates due to the huge poverty in Europe, they were despised and frequently sought by the armies and navies of larger countries. The most infamous pirate, Blackbeard, is said to one of a very rare and elite class of privateers who actually commanded a frigate. Blackbeard had his Queen Anne for nearly two years before running it aground in a battle with the British. Commanding a flotilla of 11 ships, Blackbeard was an imposing spectacle in a fight. He’d braid cannon wick into his hear and sported a devilish sight when fighting with the wicks lit and wielding about his cutlass. Upon defeat, Blackbeard was beheaded and transported to England dangling from a boom and there displayed publicly as a warning to anyone in London considering a life of crime and privateering.


That brings up the total value of our Basic Techniques of Oil Painting Tall Ships to £240 if you’re one of the first 100 to take advantage of this offering.

So again…… You will receive ….

1. Video #1: Preparation for Oil Painting Tall Ships.
2. Video #2: Basic Techniques of Oil Painting Tall Ships: Sails.
3. Video #3: Basic Techniques of Oil Painting Tall Ships: Rigging.
4. Video #4: Basic Techniques of Oil Painting Tall Ships: Ship Shapes.
5. Video #5: Basic Techniques of Oil Painting Tall Ships: Cutty Sark.
6. Video #6: Basic Techniques of Oil Painting Tall Ships: The Flying Cloud Side View.
7. Video #7: Basic Techniques of Oil Painting Tall Ships: The Flying Cloud Back View.
8. BUY THE SET BONUS VIDEO: Basic Techniques of Oil Painting Tall Ships: 2-Mast Brig.
9. PREANNOUNCEMENT SPECIAL BONUS VIDEO: Basic Techniques of Oil Painting Tall Ships: 5-Mast Bark.
10. FIRST 100 PURCHASERS SPECIAL VIDEO BONUS: Basic Techniques of Oil Painting Tall Ships: Top Sail Schooner.
11. FIRST 100 PURCHASERS SECOND SPECIAL VIDEO BONUS: Basic Techniques of Oil Painting Tall Ships: Pirates Ahoy!
12. Downloadable Instructions for Darrell’s 4-part method for painting Tall Ships
13. Downloadable Patterns for each of the tall ships will be provided.
14. Downloadable Written historical over of each of the tall ships feature will be provided.
15. Downloadable Photos of each of the tall ships paintings Darrell has done will be provided.
16. Downloadable Glossary of Marine Terms For Painting Tall Ships

The special, one-time, never to be repeated, pre-announcement price is £115 which includes postage and packing to any European address.

On November 1, 2007. The price will increase to £140 (which includes postage and packing to any European address) and will not include the Pre-Announcement Special Bonus Video or the First 100 Purchasers Special Video Bonus.
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To order you can e-mail me on info@ayoubart.co.uk and I will advise you how to make your payment.



I’m very excited to pre-announce the Tall Ship series and I know you’ll find this an unbeatable offer. Even at £140 with just the one bonus is pretty incredible.

So act now, be one of the first 100. They will go fast.

I tried to order a set but the site would not accept my card. Perhaps it was because it was a UK bank.
I need to set my PayPal account up again as all my cards have changed.
Bryan

hi bryan, if you e-mail darrell direct over your payment issues i'm sure he'll assist you. alternatively i can accept a cheque payment made payable to Sue Warne if you wish to order them via AyoubArt.

Hi Sue
I have sent Darrell an email.
I was trying to get the extra DVD he was offering for the first 100 people to order.
(anything for nothing

Bryan

Just to clarify:
For those of you who have already placed your Tall Ships DVD order with AyoubArt - if you are one of the first 100 orders you will also receive the same free bonuses as our friends over the water.....so far all the orders placed with me ARE in the first 100

Update from Darrell: 30+ orders have been received so far - which means there's approx 70 more opportunities to claim the additional bonuses offered.
I'll be setting up a shopping basket later today to enable online payments. Remember, the price goes up from £115 to £140 in just over 2 weeks.....

Shopping Basket for the Pre Order Tall Ships DVD Set is now available

(HERE)

40 more opportunities to claim the full bonus DVD's............