The class was Gina's The Watercolor Artist's Notebook and the first night we just learned about colors and how watercolor paints act, which is usually well-behaved except for when their parents aren't looking.
Gina has a lot of stuff going on and she thinks there are No Excuses for slacking off on your art. Well, maybe she'd allow Happy Hour but she'd probably want you to paint your hangover the next morning. Her classes are incredibly informative, lots of demos and handouts, and she moves around the room all the time while you are working so she can help if needed. There's a lot of structure in the class but that meant we accomplished a LOT in just 9 total hours of class.
We all got the same leaf pictures to copy. I thought that would be boring at first but then I became One with My Leaf. First we just did a careful line drawing, then we starting doing paintings of it, each time getting more and more individualized.
Finally we got to the last exercise, a picture of a big flower. Well, maybe mine looks like an exploding asteroid but I learned to really like watercolors in this class.
This is by a fellow classmate, Elaine. She was very talented. She made it look like the flower instead of an asteroid.
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