Les McAuly-Brand

I am recently retired and live with my wife in the Highlands of Scotland. I have sketched since I was very young but have never found a medium that would enhance my sketches, more often than not this has resulted in many unfinished drawings and quite a bit of disappointment. I have many influences and most of these are watercolour artists, I love their style but could not imagine ever being as naturally talented as them. The late Steve Hanks' work is fantastic but more realistically somewhere near Joseph Zbukvic's style is where I'd love to be, his looseness with paint is an enviable skill and his subjects are just full of life. Signing up for this course will hopefully allow me to try a medium I haven't attempted to work with as yet and will hopefully eventually lead to an artistic style of my own that I can be happy with.