As a teacher, new sessions are needed to be prepared continuously and half the joy of teaching is preparing new and stimulating exercises for students.
Through teaching I have meandered many varied paths which have been both challenging and exciting.
Denys Taipele started many of us on a painting path and I have my 'water-colour bible' filled with many exercises which helped expand my creative journey exponentially.
With numerous teachers and varied teaching methods over many years I have built a creative repertoire of skills to pass onto my students and create moments of awakening and delight.
At the moment I am about to tutor someone in watercolours who has never done art before apart from school art. If his experience of school art was anything like mine, I am surprised he wants to embark on this journey. The interesting thing is that instead of trusting the teacher's guidance and suggestions on materials he has a question for every instruction and request. While it is admirable to be inquisitive, to question every detail at every turn can become exhausting-and this is before sessions have started. Instead of believing in the process, he seems to be putting up road blocks at every turn. So this will be a challenging journey in many aspects but hopefully some great positive will result.
This is the small A6 book with watercolour paper pages which I have already evenly divided into pages which I shall write on and illustrate. I think this will be a great project to end the year.
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