Watercolor Moodscapes

This group is about loose style or impressionistic watercolor painting. I've been sketching almost all my life and since discovering the watercolor medium I've stuck with it ever since. I learned mostly through library books and soon found my favourite painters - John Pike, Edward Wesson, and James Fletcher Watson among others.

I learned to draw almost by accident. As a child my parents would send me over to rural Ireland for the long Summer holidays. There were not always other children to play with so at some point I started sketching the chickens and other farm animals. And I continued with my new hobby when I returned home, sketching my favourite footballers from newspaper photos.

A few years later I did a Foundation course at Portsmouth School of Art and Design but left early for a job in Portsmouth Dockyard as a 'Fire Watcher', where I had a constant queue of welders and fitters waiting to get their portraits drawn.

So now I hope to pass on some of the experience Ive gathered.