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Product Details:
Run Time: 85 minutes
Medium: Oil Paint
Difficulty Level: Beginner
Language: English
Format: Download
Price: $35
Eric Bossik:
Art: View Eric’s still lifes and portraits.
Video Credits:
Instructor: Eric Bossik
Director: Glenn Bossik
Script Supervisor: Elaine Bossik
Editing, Cinematography, and Sound Design: Glenn Bossik
Screenplay Adaptation: Glenn Bossik
Based on a Book by Eric Bossik:
“How to Create an Underpainting Like the Old Masters:
A Step-by-Step Guide”
Learn the Secret Hidden in Every Great Painting
It’s hidden in plain sight in every masterpiece painted by Rembrandt, da Vinci and Vermeer. Beneath the top layer of paint is the one element that virtually guaranteed the success and beauty of their work. The underpainting.
The master artists planned everything in this hidden layer. And you will learn exactly how they did it in Underpainting Secrets for Artists, an easy-to-understand instructional video featuring modern-day master artist Eric Bossik.
This entertaining video will show you how to ensure the success of every oil painting you start.
Don’t spend thousands on art classes when you can raise your skill level for only $35.
Get Underpainting Secrets for Artists, an instructional art video.
Buy the full download for only $35.
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File Type: MP4
File Size: 10.9 GB
Resolution: High Definition (1920×1080)
Note: Download times will depend on your Internet connection speed.
Recommended Media Players: Windows Media Player 12 (PC),
RealPlayer (PC), and QuickTime Player (MAC)
Video Benefits

Product Details:
Run Time: 85 minutes
Instructor: Eric Bossik
Medium: Oil Paint
Art: View Eric’s still lifes and portraits.
Buy the full download for $35.
Secure Payments by PayPal
File Type: MP4
File Size: 10.9 GB
Resolution: High Definition (1920×1080)
Note: Download times will depend on your Internet connection speed.
Video Benefits
Some websites sell instructional art videos that are eight hours or longer. You see every paint stroke, and it’s literally like watching paint dry.
Guess what? That’s boring. And if you’re bored, you won’t learn much.
Underpainting Secrets for Artists is different. It’s entertaining. It’s also eighty-five minutes instead of eight hours. That means that you’ll learn the essentials.
Best of all, a modern-day master artist — Eric Bossik — will teach you the essentials in his video.
Eric won a Grumbacher award for portraiture, and his paintings have been exhibited in prominent art galleries and museums.
His military history paintings have even been featured on the covers of books published by Harper Collins.
In this video, he will show you:
- How to use the necessary art tools
- How to set up a dramatic light source and illuminate your subject matter
- How to arrange and compose a strong still life composition
- How to prepare and prime your canvas
- How to add the right mediums to your paint
- How to create a strong, accurate drawing
- How to mass the big lights and shadow shapes
- How to use your paint brushes to mass shadows, model forms, and soften edges
- How to create lost and found edges
- …and much more
Get Underpainting Secrets for Artists, an instructional art video.
Video Chapters
- Introduction
- The Demo
- How to Compose a Still Life
- How to Light a Still Life
- How to Create a Concept and Composition
- The Relationship of Objects in the Painting
- How to Add Medium to Paint
- How to Brush Paint on the Canvas
- How to Wipe Down the Canvas to the Shadow Value
- How to Lay Out the Drawing
- How to Establish Values, Form, and Mass
- How to Use Your Paint Brushes
- How to Create Lost and Found Edges
Get Underpainting Secrets for Artists, an instructional art video.
Instructor

Medium: Oil Paint
Art: View Eric’s still lifes and portraits.
Buy the full download for $35.
File Type: MP4
File Size: 10.9 GB
Resolution: High Definition (1920×1080)
Note: Download times will depend on your Internet connection speed.
Instructor
Artist Eric Bossik
Eric Bossik is an accomplished artist who combines the vitality of the 21st century with the virtuosity of an 18th century master.
Exhibitions
He has exhibited at the Albertson Peterson Gallery in Winter Park, Florida; the Coe Kerr and Master Eagle galleries in New York City; the Grand Armée Gallery in Palm Beach, Florida; and the Images Gallery in Boca Raton, Florida.
Eric’s paintings and drawings have also been exhibited at the 2013 American International Fine Art Fair (AIFAF) in West Palm Beach, the Society of Illustrators, the Salmagundi Art Club, the Art Director’s Club of New York, the Heckscher Museum, the Roslyn Fine Arts Museum, the Boca Raton Museum of Art, the Armory Art Center in West Palm Beach and the Cornell Museum in Delray Beach, Florida.
Awards
His work has won the HTAL award of excellence at the Heckscher Museum and a Grumbacher award for portraiture. Eric was a recipient of an AAPL Grand National Award for oil painting in 1998.
His still life art was showcased in the 2006/2007 Armory Art Center 20/20 juried exhibition in Palm Beach, Florida. Two of Eric’s oil paintings were exhibited at the Boca Raton Museum of Art’s 57th Annual All Florida Juried Competition and Exhibition in 2008.
Published Work
Military history paintings by Eric are featured on the covers of The Harper Encyclopedia of Military Biography and From Sea to Shining Sea, a military history of early America published by Harper Collins.
As a staff mural artist for Mode Works and Evergreen Studio, Eric painted murals for numerous clients, including Planet Hollywood, as well as trompe l’oeil for the Beau Rivage Casino in Mississippi.
Instructional Work
Eric teaches oil painting and drawing classes as a faculty instructor at the Armory Art Center in West Palm Beach, Florida. He also teaches private art classes.
Eric is the author of the instructional oil painting e-book, How to Create an Underpainting Like the Old Masters: A Step-By-Step Guide.
Education
He received his formal training at the School of Visual Arts, where he earned a BFA degree. Eric advanced his studies with John Frederick Murray, a fine artist whose instructional lineage can be traced back to the École des Beaux-Arts and old master artist Jacques Louis David.
Eric paints and draws commissioned portraits of adults, children and pets, as well as murals, trompe l’oeil and figurative art.
To view his art, visit his main Website, www.bossik.com.