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Hi All,
I am new to the forums, and to drawing and painting, I started early this year on a pencil drawing course with an excellent tutor, at the end of which I did my first portrait of Hugh Lawrie. A horrid thing but when I held the portrait in front of my wife who is a Hugh Lawrie fan she correctly guessed who it was I was chuffed.
The same art tutor does a number of short courses through the year which starts in September this year’s first course is watercolour so I have brought some paints (Cotman) range some cheap brushes, paper etc. and attended my first course last Tuesday. The tutor’s introduced the theme for this year as calm, tranquillity and serenity. It will be refreshing to delve into the world of art, and attempt to take on the basic skills required to get a painting together that hopefully will resemble albeit loosely (very loosely) the essence of calm, tranquillity, and serenity.
To start us off we had to look at what types of lines and shapes indicate those types of emotions, as it was my first lesson (Others had been before) I was set a task of taking on a colour and diluting it little by little to get an idea of the sort of range (diluted right down to the mixing water!!) but even the water I used to mix with placed a subtle shade on the paper.
I started to buy the leisure painter back when I did the pencil drawing; I have not achieved or attempted any of the workshops out of them mainly work commitments. However, the homework I have set for the week is to look at the shells / stones in Septembers Leisure painter and to put something similar together in watercolour, I have the shells drawn in and the first very subtle cobalt blue wash applied I will deepen the colour on the next layer.
Anyway enough rambling on I am new and have looked through the forums as a guest for a while and thought I would introduce myself in the hope that it gets me free advice / ideas and help every now and again. Also though to thank you all for the advice that i have read on here thus far which i have found useful.
Eta