Watercolour for Beginners: Session Six
I’d like to take the opportunity in the course to help you with resources, in particular, photographs.
Photographs are fantastic to work from and can be an endless source of inspiration to work from but you can’t just use any image, you need to be mindful of who has taken the photograph and respect their skill. You also have the option to take your own images and in this session, I would like to help you navigate what the best practice is to achieve good, well researched resources.
What you will learn this session:
The importance of photography when learning to paint
What equipment you might consider when taking your own images
A quick discussion regarding copyright
Where to find images generously gifted by photographers
How you might like to print and store your own images
How to shortcut through the drawing process to get to painting
How tracing IS NOT cheating
The equipment you will need in addition to previous sessions:
(Please note that this was filmed in 2021 and I have possibly altered the equipment I now use due to manufacture and availability. My online shop on this website has the most up to date versions of what I now recommend)
Tracedown, this is now quite tricky to find, please email Ali for where to find more up to date instructions
A coloured biro
The tutorial:
Timings within the video when Ali discusses particular aspects of the exercises:
2:08 - Why Photography?
7:30 - My photographic equipment
9:55 - Where to find photographs online
14:46 - How to organise your own images
17:59 - How to transfer images
Homework:
By no means compulsory, homework is only suggested to allow each participant the opportunity to expand on what they have learnt in this session:
Have a look at both Pixabay and Unsplash to see how they work and if it’s something you might like to use.
Start collating your own images and finding a way that you can easily access what you want, at the time that you need it. That may be digital files or physical prints in a folder.
Start asking friends and family for their images too, particularly if they like to go to places that you haven’t visited!