June's Arts Studio

Teacher's response

Thank you Caroline for your warm and friendly review! When you said you are a beginner at watercolor painting, in fact I am also a beginner to run a brand new workshop. So all the kindly encouragement from you guys is precious and helpful to me! I hope all beginners can enjoy the art journey and I will continue sharing my own experiences with everyone. Most of the time I taught myself and spent long hours on practising, so I know how beginners normally think and feel. Patience and persistence are more important than other things. Beside those things, we need to observe carefully what we see every day. Painting is a way to relax, so enjoy it! No pressure!

Teacher's response

I want to say something to people who never went to the workshop:

1. it is in the back of a "shoe" shop, but there are also handmade jewellery and other beautiful things. There is also a small art gallery displaying oil paintings/ watercolour paintings /acrylic paintings.

And I don't know what is wrong with shoes. In my eyes, shoe design is also art. I liked to use chalk to draw high heels when I was just 8 years old. If I can I like to become a shoe designer.

I had learnt drawing and painting in VAS art school before, and their class room is even smaller and older than most other people's workshop. They even leave an old pillar with dirty paints on it on purpose after a renovation, because some famous artists ' or unknown art students ' time had been spent in the small room.

2. I keep my "dirty" palette because I know they are useful. Yesterday when the young girl wanted to paint the wooden bridge, she didn't know what colours she should use. And I just used my" dirty" / rubbish colours simply solved the problem.

3. Yes, people can be very tidy. But some artists do have unorganised desks. There are 4 long tables, when you wanted to use other tables, you don't have to be crowded with other people.

4. There are lots of brand new materials on the shelves. If you like you can use them as much as you want.

5. For the small sized paper.... from my experience, beginners should start from simple pictures and small sized paper.

To do the basic practice is the fundamental step of art.

But if you just want to spend 2 hours playing with brushes and paints, you can tell me in the beginning, and I will supply big sized paper.

6. And because the fee is reasonably low, if you need an A3 sized professional watercolour paper, for example, Arches, I have to charge $8 extra for it.

Enjoy your art journey!

Teacher's response

Thank you for your review!

I think your designs are beautiful. Great job!