Art is an Attitude: The Art of Figure Drawing by Bill Buchman
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Film Overview

Directed By: Bill Buchman View Official Website	Release Date: 2007-12-15 Running Time: 1:25 Content Rating: PG (Parental Guidance)	Audio Language(s): English
Genres: Documentary >> Art & Artists :: Instructional >> Art :: Video Art Influences: Picasso, Matisse

Synopsis

SEE CLIPS AT www.billbuchman.com
Using a live model Bill Buchman demonstrates how to make beautiful figure drawings – one step at a time. The film opens with an imaginative visual poem which evokes the essence of the figure drawing process with images, words and music. The viewer accompanies Bill in real time as he weaves the many strands of the drawing process into a tapestry of drawing knowledge and techniques. The session culminates with some methods of using color that exemplify Bill’s unique and masterful approach.This DVD presents an inside view of the creative process and shows just how interesting and exciting it can be.

Look over Bill’s shoulder …and listen…as he demonstrates 25 fundamental figure drawing techniques and reveals his methods for developing proficiency with Conté crayon, gel pen, ink wash, Sumi brush, watercolor crayons, soft pastels, and reed pen.

Buchman, an accomplished artist, an innovative teacher and excellent communicator has empowered students and artists of all levels to make progress with the figure beyond their expectations. Bill studied life drawing in the 1960’s with two of America’s foremost art educators: major American figurative painter Fletcher Martin and the Museum of Modern Art’s Education director, Victor D’Amico. Through much artistic study and development Bill has evolved remarkable techniques for creating powerful and timeless drawings.

This instructional film offers rich resources to the experienced or beginning artist looking for new and inspiring ways to draw. All who view this enlightening film will expand their appreciation of the poetic realm of figure drawing. They may even find that it brings on an immediate and irresistible urge to take up pen and brush!

THIS DVD WILL SIMPLY ENABLE YOU TO DRAW BETTER!

What others say about this DVD:

“Bill Buchman innovatively uses technique to open up your creativity, to let bloom the soul and expressiveness of your figure art!... Mr. Buchman is a friendly, pleasant, encouraging teacher, rather gentle and affirming in his approach and he explains things clearly and thoroughly... This DVD will help you open up your art and make it more creative and fluid and wonderful and enjoyable.”

Scott Kirkman
Founder, Figure-Drawing League
www.beautifuldrawings.com/league.htm

"Well structured and beautifully photographed,...this DVD will inspire artists of all levels." Library Journal

"Recommended" Video Librarian Online

"What a great DVD. Good job Bill. This is great stuff."
Judy Robertson, Artist, Sarasota

"Your DVD is the best art instructional DVD I've seen."
Natasha Joffer
Keeton's Art Supply, Bradenton

"Your DVD is more sophisticated and more interesting visually than others I've seen.."
Amanda Molnar
Art & Frame of Sarasota

The DVD is phenomenal, ....absolutely fantastic. My favorite is exercise is your "Loop de Loop". This will be incredible to see even for someone who is not an artist . Congratulations.
Andrea Dasha Reich, Artist, Sarasota

"Bill Buchman's DVD is exceptionally well done, and knowing that he produced it is even more impressive. This is truly an educational DVD, and the model is gorgeous, too.

Jill Hoffman-Kowal
Director of Education
Art Center Sarasota

"Life drawing...where do I start? Get the Bill Buchman award winning DVD and learn how to do it right from the best teacher."
Lyn Marnoch Lidelle, artist, Toronto

"I watched all of your video… I must say that I am impressed with regard to the professionalism of its presentation.... I want to pick up a conte crayon and try it myself. I loved your music in the background as well."

Frank Perry of Keeton's Office and Art Supply, Bradenton

What people say about Bill as a teacher:

“Thank you for teaching me how to draw. Whatever I want to do, I can now do.” - Nina Ransahoff, artist and student, Sarasota

“Best teacher I ever had--- taught me how to look at a figure, make decisions and then go for it!”
Lois Fishman, artist and student, Sarasota

“I have not found a drawing teacher as good as Bill anytime or anywhere.”
Betty Wiechec, artist and student, Sarasota

“This is a whole turnaround of my view of art - it's everything I always wanted to know but wasn't taught in art school!”
Mimi Francis, artist and student , Chicago

"And I didn't even make any of these up! "
Bill Buchman

SEE MORE CLIPS, ORIGINAL ART AND MUCH MORE AT www.billbuchman.com

Cast

Artist & Teacher: Bill Buchman | bio
See director Bio and billbuchman.com
Model: Zoe Zimmerman

Crew

Producer: Sandy Howe | bio
Since 1989 Sandy Howe has produced television shows and
commercials that have earned 3 Emmy Awards, 4 Addy Awards
and had a film featured at the Sundance Film Festival. Learn more at sandyhowefilms.com
Camera Operator: Andrew Lee | bio
see www.wideeyedfilms.com
Director: Bill Buchman | bio
Bill Buchman, an internationally represented American artist, lived and worked for twenty years in Europe, primarily in Copenhagen and Paris. In 2001 he moved to Sarasota, Florida where he now has his studio and teaches.

Bill studied painting and drawing with renowned teacher Victor D’Amico at the Museum of Modern Art’s Institute of Modern Art, East Hampton, NY and also with leading American figurative painter Fletcher Martin at the Albany Institute of Art, in Albany, NY. Bill attended Cornell University, School of Fine Arts and Boston University, School of Liberal Arts and has a Bachelor’s Degree and a Master’s Degree in music from the New England Conservatory of Music.

Buchman's expressive figure drawings and brightly colored spontaneous abstractions may be seen in private and public collections in Denmark, Sweden, England and the US and at galleries in Sarasota, Copenhagen, New York and other locales.

This DVD, "Art Is An Attitude", will soon be distributed to art stores throughout the US by MacPherson's - the largest distributor of art materials in the US and is available online exclusively through FilmBaby. Savoir Faire, importer and distributor of some of the world's finest art materials is a sponsor of Bill and his art.

Bill says of his work: “Harmony is my keynote. Ideas from the realm of music are my main source of inspiration. At the same time, a broad spectrum of ideas and techniques of European Modernism of the early 20th century, the artistic philosophy and methods of Chinese and Japanese painting, as well as Renaissance and Classical concepts all provide me with a basis for my ongoing voyage." Learn more at www.billbuchman.com
Picture Editor: Sarah Marius | bio
& Sound and Music Editor

Bonus Features

Theatrical Trailers
Interactive Menus
Scene Selections

Accolades

Awards

2007 Silver Addy

Press Reviews

Video Librarian Online | show/hide snippet
"Recommended"
Library Journal | show/hide snippet
Well structured and beautifully photographed, the many exercised along with Buchman's work will inspire artists of all levels
Scott Kirkman, Founder, Figure-Drawing League | show/hide snippet
Traditionally, art instruction separates technique from creativity. In this excellent art-instruction DVD, Bill Buchman innovatively uses technique to open up your creativity, to let bloom the soul and expressiveness of your figure art!

Mr. Buchman's open-minded, lighthearted artistic style is about fluidity and flow, free-spirited boldness blended with joy and fun, the pure poetic *art* of a picture appearing from the simple essence of revealing form from what you see. With an almost-zen-oriental philosophy that focuses on the process not the result, Mr Buchman shows you how to use mass, line, contour, direction, and expressive gesture to keep your art loose and free all the time, to let the line, the ink, the paint, have a life of its own. "To draw is to risk," Mr. Buchman reassures us.

Start and stay with the fundamentals, he says, and keep things simple: "All drawing is simplification." See the big shapes, the ones that really count, and let the line and values have a life of their own and the sense of the drawing will appear, almost as if by magic. Trust in yourself. Trust in exercises as educational investment. Be confident and patient with yourself; have faith that pure art will emerge from what you do.

Much like the DVD's light jazz background music, Mr. Buchman is a friendly, pleasant, encouraging teacher, rather gentle and affirming in his approach. He explains things clearly and thoroughly. As for qualifications, Mr. Buchman has been an artist and teacher for many years, since he studied life drawing in the 1960s with impressive art mentors, including Victor D'Amico, education director of the Museum of Modern Art.

This DVD feels full: 90 minutes of one art technique and exercise after another, in the form of a private lesson in Mr. Buchman's studio. You get to look over Mr Buchman's shoulder as he demonstrates twenty-five fundamental figure-art techniques -- including his own invention, the delightful continuous-contour drawing technique he calls "Loop De Loop" -- and simultaneously reveals his methods for developing proficiency with conte crayon, gel pen, ink wash, sumi brush, pastels, acrylic ink, watercolor crayons, and even a reed pen (as Van Gogh used). And you can use the DVD's menu to re-watch particular lessons as you like.

I personally love realistic, representational art more than any other, but Bill Buchman's abstract impressionist art -- especially when he uses color -- is lovely and full of life, in a way even the finest realistic art could never be. I’ve collected a hundred books and videos that show me how to draw more realistically, and I treasure each one. But I was delighted to watch this DVD and feel an uplifting permission to be much more free in creating my art and still trust that it will be all right -- that what I create will truly be art, maybe even more so than what I've been creating for years, so carefully and so cautiously.

Mr Buchman's art is not based on realism. This DVD will not teach you to more realistically draw the human face, the hands and feet. In fact, Mr. Buchman favors the torso and persuasively argues that trying to render too much detail in face, hands, and feet can ruin a work faster than anything. This DVD will help you open up your art and make it more creative and fluid and wonderful and enjoyable.

I heartily recommend it, for artists of all levels.
Scott Kirkman
Founder, Figure-Drawing League
www.beautifuldrawings.com/league.htm