Journey With Watercolors

Here is the view of the Speicherstadt from the utside of the maritime museum. Speicherstadt is the largest warehouse district in the world and is an UNESCO world heritage site. Done on 10*6 inches arches travel journal.  

A watercolor sketch of the anthurium plant that i recently gifted to my wife for her birthday. It took me long to get back to paper and brushes. Also missed the recent urban sketchers meet that would have pushed me to paint.

While the Workshop with Ernst restarted my journey with watercolors, it is the Urban Sketching that has kept it going. I have come to know of this Urban sketching concept in 2016 and joined the local urban sketchers group in October of that year. I saw the monthly meetings being organised in the city where the interested people just get together at a specific location and sketch. I thought that was a fantastic idea to get the people with the same interest together. Being an introvert in addition to the language barrier, i could not take the leap to join the meetings. But in the workshop with Ernst , i have experienced the joy of painting outdoors and was as well able to converse enough in German. After coming back from the workshop, i attended the sketch crawl orgainsed in Buxtehude, a small town near Hamburg where an art fair was as well being held on that weekend. I was very much excited to be attending it while at the same had a lot of anxiety. I was not sure if i would be able

In the month of August in 2017, I have taken a 5 day long watercolor workshop with Ernst Grillhiesl . It is that workshop that bought me back on watercolor journey. I enjoyed doing watercolors in my school days. It was however long forgotten after school days and was renewed for a while when I started working in Bangalore. It was never regular. I probably did a maximum of 20 paintings during the last 20 years. Irrespective of the little I did, the fascination with watercolors always remained. I could never stop thinking about the medium and the magic it creates on paper. That infact is my biggest problem. I think a lot, read a lot but rarely bring the colors on to the papaer. The workshop with Ernst did change that for good. Ernst Grillhiesl is a hobby watercolor artist who stays in Aichach, the bavarian region of south Germany. Coming to know of him from the Wetcanvas forum and completely in awe of his watercolors, I have taken a 3 day workshop with him in 2016. While I made the