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    ADoughty
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        Hi everyone, I am new to painting and have taken one in-person wc class. I would like to take more classes but there are not many in my area, so I’m looking for an online class for watercolor and/or gouache. I found a couple that have already started so I cannot join in. Anyone have any suggestions? I would prefer a start to finish class vs. looking up random tutorials…I have already been doing that…and I’ve been reading books but I need to have live demos. Thanks!

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        Rcanby
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            Oregonian Vinita Pappas has a class that you can access on your own schedule. It’s at create38.com.

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            ADoughty
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                Thanks!

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                Have you checked out the Gouache Archives in the Watercolor Studio ?
                https://www.wetcanvas.com/forums/showthread.php?t=759241

                Doug


                We must leave our mark on this world

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                juliet45
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                    Kay Parmenter does a very helpful short online course with video support. I believe she is starting a new one in September.

                    http://kayeparmenter.blogspot.co.uk/

                    Irena

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                    ADoughty
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                        Thanks, I will check these out as well!

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                        janinco
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                            I learned a great deal from a subscription to ArtistsNetwork.TV[/URL] (a Wet Canvas partner). For $49.99 you get unlimited access online to all the watercolor instructional videos (over 100 from various well-known teachers).

                            Jan

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                            ADoughty
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                                Thanks everyone…I really like some of the videos I previewed on the artist network…I think I’m going to have to sign up!

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                                I do on-line tutorials in watercolour!
                                Challenging but fun.

                                Cheers, Jane

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                                Undergoose
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                                    Ditto what Jan said about Artists Network. I signed up last month for the $30 first month/$20 recurring months subscription, and have watched a couple dozen videos thus far, and repeating a bunch of them. Some are fairly rudimentary, most are great! I love Ian King and Hazel Soan.

                                    Ian King is a little on the gadgety side with all the tape, individual ‘pots’ and maul-sticking, but his easily implemented instruction on depth of field is really good IMO. He’s my favorite so far, and I’ve been experimenting with adapting into his 7-step system.

                                    Hazel Soan’s Africa watercolor video is really good, too. She’s very free in her painting of animals, and that’s something I really want to progress into. Right now I’m still terrified of wrecking a good landscape by putting in a wild pony that ends up looking like a tall ardvark or something. “Dissolving Parliment” is also great to watch, as I’m always intimidated by complex architecture in a loose medium without breaking out all my plastic and metal ‘crutch’ thingamajigs.

                                    As far as technique, I really enjoyed Carla O’ Connor’s figures in gouache video. She has some outstanding composition tutelage as well as sage advice regarding freeing yourself of the bonds of traditionalism. I really liked her point about the fun in art being more about learning to adapt dynamically to a peice as it progresses, rather than forcing it into your initial concept. Freakish and tight-fisted control is something I learned in drafting, sign painting and commercial graphics, and I’ve been fighting against it. I’m finally making good progress into the free and breezy instead. :)

                                    I wish I’d have acted on Jan’s recommendation months ago.

                                    Karl

                                    "Someone asked me, if I were stranded on a desert island what book would I bring... "How to Build a Boat." ~Steven Wright

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