Rather than teaching a particular project that ends up as a landscape or still life, this video teaches techniques. I didn't go out and buy the list of stuff on the back of the case -- but I did use items I had on hand, like sandpaper and q-tips. I also used the children's watercolor brushes and a slightly different-sized canvas but in all it worked out pretty well.

I learned a bunch of techniques from collages to finger painting to stenciling and stamping. The parts on glazing and on painted gel relief gave me some great ideas on how to get certain affects in other projects.

I admit to being a little disappointed at first because the way I interpreted the title led me to expect to learn to create a painting. My finished product was a painting, all right, but not exactly what I had in mind! However, when one doesn't know anything about a subject, one can't help but benefit from an overview of techniques like this video provides. I would definitely recommend it to the novice painter.