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The Internet had already become popular by the turn of the century. Almost every information was available in the net and more so when YouTube channel came into existence with streaming videos. However, almost all of the art videos were of 2 to 3 minutes. Unlike that of today where you can find scores of watercolour painting tutorial sites, there were only a few web sites like Handprint, Wet Canvas, PaintDoodles....All these web sites provided the bare minimum information and I found them to be not enough to kick start watercolour painting.
I constantly kept searching for something new and useful in the net. Finally, in the year 2008 as I was browsing the "How to Draw & Paint" web site I found some longer watercolour tutorial videos. The web site also informed that they are soon going to start an online water colour tutorial course. (Sadly the online course is no longer available in the net.) I became interested to join the course and an introductory discounted price was offered which I found to be suitable for my pocket. Since I did not have an international credit card I took help from my friend to pay the course fees and get enrolled.
Watercolour Secret online tutorial web site Click on the photo to get a bigger view.
I think this site was one of the earliest to provide online watercolour painting tutorials. In this post and next few posts I will put in here what I learnt from this course as well as other offline video courses such as tutorials by Geoff Kersey, Peter Saw, Peter Wooley, Ray Campbell Smith, Hazel Soan, James Fletcher Watson... that I subsequently took over the years. I will also redo most of the tutorial paintings and upload them here.
I find drawing to be very important part of painting. For a beginner it is always essential to start with drawing practice before moving to pick up a brush. In my previous post i mentioned of a simple but powerful exercise for free hand drawing.
Here are the videos that attracted me to take up this course. Now a days you can see much better videos in the net.
Since I was new to such a course I had to browse and read the instructions as well as aquint myself to the system. This took me couple of days before I could view the tutorials. The course was for one year and there were about 20 active participants. Bob Davis was the instructor. A facility was provided to upload our paintings that we attempted to emulate the instructor and get comments from other participants. However, on the flip side the instructor would never put his comment nor any suggestions for improvement. The course was divided into various sections.
To be continued...
