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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]Painting (mostly watercolors) is my intensive hobby. I took it up 7 or 8 years ago. [/b]I sell some occasionally, and will give pieces to friends and family (only if they specifically ask for one, which happens fairly frequently; I would never just gift someone a random painting).

In terms of pure relaxation hobbies, reading and baking. Does eating too much of the things I bake count as a hobby?[/quote]

How did you start?
Classes, you tube, etc?[/quote]
I randomly took a watercolor class for fun and it turned out that I had some aptitude for it. I took a few additional classes and I bought and worked my way through a variety of technique-based books. I'm fairly advanced at this point but I still enjoy taking occasional painting workshops. I'm not a big fan of YouTube painting tutorials because they tend to be more of a paint-by-number experience where you copy individual strokes. For me, learning from responsive humans is best, followed by books.[/quote]

That’s great!   I’m a NP and I also took up watercolors as a hobby recently.   I had taken art classes, including one college level watercolor class, as a teen, and the techniques came back to me.  I think I could probably benefit from relearning some tricks and advanced technique.  But my mantra has just been “draw what I see” with a lot of pre-painting sketching, and it’s been working.  I work mostly from my own photos of people and nature.  Some people have asked of they can commission paintings from me and I’m tempted to say yes only because choosing the subject and composition I find to be the most doofuclt part, and part of me things it would just be easier to work with a composition someone gives me and try to make the best of it. [/quote]

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