{"id":1347,"date":"2020-08-06T10:00:24","date_gmt":"2020-08-06T09:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/?p=1347"},"modified":"2020-08-03T15:22:39","modified_gmt":"2020-08-03T14:22:39","slug":"painting-with-zoom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/?p=1347","title":{"rendered":"Painting with Zoom"},"content":{"rendered":"

For the next three weeks I shall be attending an on line watercolour painting course on Zoom.\u00a0 It’s always interesting to see how other artists tackle a subject and I wanted to get to know the teacher, or at least learn something about his methods, since I will be attending one of his courses in person soon.\u00a0 That will be about “painting outside”, something I have very little experience of,\u00a0 as circumstances have dictated that I work mainly from my own photographs.\u00a0 It turns out that he paints very like I do, which means I only have to cope with “outside”!<\/p>\n

Teaching via Zoom requires a different approach to face to face lessons. For one thing, he had 100 students from all over the world, some painting after a day’s work, and others up before breakfast.\u00a0\u00a0 Some were absolute\u00a0 beginners while the rest had varying\u00a0 painting skills.\u00a0 With this\u00a0 set up, the usual demo followed by personal advice as class members work at their own paintings would be impossible.\u00a0 In the event, he painted a passage, then the students essayed the same (we were all working from the same photo). Then we proceeded to the next passage.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>As you can see, it is a fairly simple image of three figures on a beach, backlit and with reflections on the watery shore.\u00a0 We started with the sky and the distant hills, working through the sea onto the wet sand in the foreground strengthening the tones at the second pass.\u00a0 The figures are virtually silhouettes, the light catching the shoulders thrown up by the darker background and the silhouetted shapes.\u00a0 the reflections were placed on a damp surface.<\/p>\n

The inevitable start-stop nature\u00a0 of the lesson took some getting used to both for him and for me.\u00a0 Working to someone else’s brief was a useful experience.\u00a0 Next week we are painting a waterfall.<\/p>\n

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