Just finished my second watercolor class that Bobbie bought for me. It was a class handled through the art supply company www.cheapjoes.com which is a great place to buy art supplies for really good prices. They have 3 stores in Western North Carolina and are based out of Boone, NC. Joe Miller (owner / artist) has a great store of how he started it all.
Back to the class. It was hosted on Zoom, was moderate in cost ( couple of hundred bucks), lasted 3 days with 3-1/2 hours / day. Went very well, no technical hitches and was chock full of information and examples. I got a lot out of it.
I put a lot of stress on myself on classes. It may come from decades of being a software engineer and getting things done fast and working. I'm all about no stress now but the self pressure to do a new watercolor painting using colors, subject, etc. that I've not done before was tough. My first go was on the wrong track so I canned it, but then had to re-start again. No pressure!
The end result is the image shown here. Whew, what a relief when I was almost done and the instructor (Alexis Lavine : an excellent artist) was pleased with what I was doing. I felt like I had stumbled on a lucky trail. The background was throwing me for a loop until I came up with this idea and color. It worked.
BTW: I was the only guy in the class. Again, no pressure. I could fail for all the guys in the world.
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