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I have a bit of a random question - do people really use search-for-a-tutor 'list' sites (and therefore are they worth the effort of joining)?
I've taught in-person adult education art classes previously and I'm now looking at whether tutoring online will be a possibility for me.
So, when considering how prospective learners might find me, I've come across a 'tutor list' website where one can search for a tutor and filter for subject, location etc. So my question here is do people really use such sites?
Any experience anyone? Thanks in advance
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I have in the past Googled ‘art groups near me’ rather than using a specific site. I didn’t find anything of use to me. I think if we lived in a city there would be more options.
If you’re thinking of online teaching, it would help if you are known in your field, which you may well be if you’ve already taught AE classes.
I wish you luck.
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I don't use art-tutor sites, or sign up for anyone's art classes: but I do look at the occasional tutorial on YouTube - following Alan Owen, Chris Fornatero, Charles Evans, and several others - because I think one can learn from all of them and more. And leaning never stops. I wouldn't particularly want to follow any one tutor - it's more dipping in and out to see what I can find.
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I've used search for a tutor, but to no avail. to far to travel, or just want to much money.Not a problem everyone has to earn a living, but they are more one to one rather than a cup of tea chat and a bit of painting. I am at present into painting flowers, tricky if it's windy as th paint falls off. Ha ha.i do use goggle to find inspiration, but most just get skipped over.
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So basically, Alan, you dip in and out, as I do? You can pick up a lot that way - odd, off-kilter ideas, things you might not have thought of before, but have now as a consequence of just one chance remark on a website you might never before have visited. Much prefer that to trailing along in discipleship behind any given tutor - or I think so, anyway; would I think the same if I were starting out; I suppose not.... and it'll depend on one's personality, how far one wants to involve oneself with one or other tutor... It's been a long journey, and I'm still very much on it, but I think a combination of learning as you go, taking hints where you can find them... well, it'll be a long road; but you can learn so much more than any tutor is likely to be able to tell you. I'm not convinced by my own argument, to be honest! I'm sure others will have a quite different view.
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PS - what I like about Chris Fornatero on YouTube (he posts as Paint Coach) is that he's a very dominating young man: he tells us, at the end of his video, "Go get painting!" - and my response tends to be "Yessir, absolutely sir, look, I've got a brush in my hand now...!"
Positive encouragement can be so important - positive vs negative: the former is always better than the latter. I'm not easily dominated, but he does leave you with the feeling that if you don't get those paints out and have a go, he'd be very, very disappointed in you: well - it's a gift of his that might not work on everyone, but - I'd just be ashamed to let him down!
Some scorn YouTube demos, I know - though don't really know why - but .... well, I don't know that I've learned a great deal from them, but I've certainly learned something, and something is always better than nothing - so I'd say, go take a look at a few - ignore the Bob Ross knock-offs, obviously (and if you don't know WHY it's obvious, well - we have a little problem, don't we?) pass quickly over artists who are plainly not one little bit better than we are - though: don't despise them; you really never know. But if you find a painter whose work speaks to you, follow 'em: there ARE good painters on there; they're prepared to share their expertise, it would just be ungrateful and ungracious to ignore them - where else can you find free demonstrations?
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We do have a pretty good list of art tutors here on PO https://www.painters-online.co.uk/art-tutors/ for anyone who might be looking! Tutors can add their details for free too.
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Quite right, I'd forgotten those (mind you, I'm not really looking for a tutor: unteachable, some of us.....). A painter I much admire from the other side of the Atlantic is Roger Bansemer - he who went down in a bathysphere to paint the hulk of the Titanic. Google will find him for you - he explains his processes so clearly, and his knowledge is vast; he paints in oil and in acrylic (possibly watercolour too, I'm not sure) and is well worth a follow. Then on this side, we have Andrew Barrowman - sometimes seems a little embarrassed on camera, but he's a lovely painter and artist in several media: plus, he's usually accompanied by Basil the dog on his trips around the Cornish coast.
Never forgetting Alan Owen - "here's an easy one for yer...": and you look on aghast, as he does things from his 80-odd years of experience which leave you thinking "easy for YOU, may be .... not so easy for me".
Are these people really tutors? Strictly speaking, perhaps not - they're working artists who are generous enough to share their methods, for free or for a small fee on their Patreon pages - but they undoubtedly teach.
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Haidee-Jo-Summers VPROI offers one to one tuition, details are on her website. She is a very talented painter and also has DVD’s and two published books on oil painting.
I was delighted to read recently that she has been appointed vice president of the ROI, my congratulations to her on this important role - also worth a mention at this point is that Adebanji Alade has been appointed president, he moves up from his previous role as vice president.
He takes over from the outgoing president Tim Benson.
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I have a bit of a random question - do people really use search-for-a-tutor 'list' sites (and therefore are they worth the effort of joining)? I've taught in-person adult education art classes previously and I'm now looking at whether tutoring online will be a possibility for me. So, when considering how prospective learners might find me, I've come across a 'tutor list' website where one can search for a tutor and filter for subject, location etc. So my question here is do people really use such sites? Any experience anyone? Thanks in advance
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