Well, now I have spent the last year exploring sketching and photography. Some people felt that I might have been a bit obsessive with all my art (I filled many, many sketch books) but putting that aside, I had a lot of drawing time to catch up to. I don't feel I'll ever really get to where I want to be. Like many things, it will be a compromise effort. But I'll really try my utmost to reach a standard that I am content with. Since getting involved with Flickr and joining many online groups, I have been very encouraged to keep sticking at it (art and photography) and encouraged even further to move to the next level. (Woa!) So I'm trying to understand watercolour. I cannot really afford formal classes. Just an occasional class. I am learning by looking at others' work, and if I want to know more about their work - going to the source and emailing them. Thank God for the internet!
I am trying my watercolour technique with both portrait painting and also with some stylised floral arrangements. When I was in Japan in 2009, I bought a second hand book from "Bookoff" about watercolour painting of flowers. Written in Japanese! However, it is a style of art that I like, and the book has taught me a lot (without words). I was very productive yesterday and today and worked at a series of works. The rest you can see on my Flicker site - So I'll sign off now as I've got some more painting to do.
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