Course Work

Above is a landscape I painted as part of Maria Wigge’s Creating Boldly With Watercolor course. Maria provided the source photo and demonstrated how to paint it in a loose style. I generally don’t follow tutorials anymore (see below), but I carefully watched Maria’s demonstration and then did completely my own version – I used my own selection of colours and just a very minimal pencil sketch. I really like how this turned out. I showed my sister this painting and she fell in love with it…. so it’s gone to a lovely new home!

Above is a seascape also created as part of Maria Wigge’s Creating Boldly watercolour course, link above. The source photo was Maria’s and she also demonstrated how to paint it in a loose style. But I painted my own version, using my own colour selection and just a very minimal pencil sketch. I have officially now completed the Creating Boldly With Watercolors course, but I will be revisiting it from time to time. I’m now focusing on the Diving Deeper With Watercolors course by Maria Wigge, but I’ll be incorporating lessons learnt from the first course into my work for this course.

Above I mentioned that I, generally, don’t follow tutorials any more. Why not? Because when I follow a tutorial I’m simply copying the work of another artist, and the work created will never be my own work – it will always be the work of the artist who created the tutorial. I don’t want to be someone who simply copies another artists work. Also, the danger with following tutorials is that, if I’m not careful, I will be following tutorials forever…. ! I don’t want to do that either. So I decided some time ago to STOP FOLLOWING TUTORIALS. I like to watch a tutorial to learn techniques and get ideas that I can incorporate into my own work. But that is all. I want to create my own unique, original artwork.

Happy painting!