Paul Clark
Paul Clark is a professional artist and published author who has been teaching watercolour painting and drawing techniques to adult learners for over 25 years. He has taught art to adults at Bexhill and Claverham Community College, as well as running his own successful art school in Eastbourne. He lives in the UK, as you will catch on from his accent.
Paul's ethos on teaching, is that students learn better when working in a happy and relaxed atmosphere.
Paul's ethos on teaching, is that students learn better when working in a happy and relaxed atmosphere.
He does still life, etc., but the main focus seems to be on landscapes. He has individual tutorials on YouTube on different subjects. Some are for a full tutorial, some of focusing on how to do a tree, rock, water, etc. Those are very helpful.
When he does a full tutorial from a sketch, he posts the sketch on his website:
Most of the YouTube's are shortened versions of a full tutorial, but he does hit the most important parts.
Here are examples of some of his tutorials:
Class today was taken from the following video:
Three 20 minute demos techniques for landscape
We did some clouds. I've never done clouds with this method, so it was fun for me. We also did the one on the reflections in the water, quick and fun. I liked two things about that: one, it was basically two or three colors, so you could focus on learning the technique instead of waffling about color; and two, he showed a dry brush technique using the side of a round brush, which I've not used before. Makes interesting edges for trees.
We didn't get to work on the tree, but we will next week.
Paul Clark wrote the following book, and his work is found in several other books, which are compilations from various artists.
Paul Clark's book for beginners
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