I've started going to a new painting class, which followed on from the ink drawing. This is watercolours for beginners, which is actually what I thought I had signed up for before. I'm not overly happy with my two paintings so far, but I am trying to view the class as a way of learning techniques, which is obviously going to take a while.
I was not sure whether to post them, but then thought that this is just a personal blog, so not everything has to be great.
The first week we did seascapes, and my picture was really quite insipid compared to the rest of the class. I was thinking Scottish isles, where I think everyone else was going tropical. I was not too uphappy with the sky or foreground, but realised that part of my problems were because I had bought the wrong sort of paper. I think that is why my distant islands ran into the sea. We were shown how to use masking fluid to make the waves. But when I look now, I actually prefere this one to the next painting.
In the class we are all essentially doing very similar paintings, and although we looked at some beach scenes and trees, it does seem a little bit "Bob Ross". Please don't get me wrong, because I love Bob Ross, but I think I want to try and make pictures that are realistic, and not purely from my imagination. But I guess these are really exercises in handling the paint and learnings techniques, and we will then be able to do what we want.
Another problem may be that I don't really want to paint landscapes. There seem a lot of amateur landscape and seascapes around, and I think I might really like to have some buildings in a scene, or even do some still life, or animals.
But next week we are moving on to flowers, and I think after that maybe buildings, so watch this space ....
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