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August 25, 2013 at 7:01 pm #991175
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!
August 25, 2013 at 9:29 pm #1192067Oregonian Vinita Pappas has a class that you can access on your own schedule. It’s at create38.com.
August 25, 2013 at 9:55 pm #1192070Thanks!
August 26, 2013 at 2:07 am #1192064Have you checked out the Gouache Archives in the Watercolor Studio ?
https://www.wetcanvas.com/forums/showthread.php?t=759241Doug
We must leave our mark on this worldAugust 26, 2013 at 4:29 am #1192066Kay 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
August 28, 2013 at 6:27 pm #1192071Thanks, I will check these out as well!
August 28, 2013 at 11:35 pm #1192065September 1, 2013 at 10:29 am #1192072Thanks everyone…I really like some of the videos I previewed on the artist network…I think I’m going to have to sign up!
September 9, 2013 at 6:00 am #1192068September 9, 2013 at 7:13 am #1192069Ditto 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
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