Journey With Watercolors

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