Bryan Freer
Bryan Freer started preparing for the transition from corporate life to retirement in 2009 by studying to be a watercolourist under separate tuition by award winning Australian Artists, Joe Cartwright, Malcolm Carver and occasionally Rob Candy. After two years the very basics are coming as second nature, some paintings almost qualify for framing status, however there is a good way to go, in fact the water colour learning journey is never ending, which is the enjoyable wonder of this discipline.
I find the new students joining the classes mainly require encouragement to persist with mastering the very basic water colour skills. Each tutor will take different approaches to the basics: Washes, Shapes, Patterns, Tones, Light, Wet and Dry, hard and soft edges. After your first year you become comfortable with your palette, brushes and paper, many skills become second nature, then you start to enjoy the creativity bit and the ongoing magic of the medium, you never really know what it will do.
