BEGINNINGS
As I mentioned earlier, there was no art school and no grand plan. There was, however, a funny story. My wife, an architect by education, drew a portrait of our granddaughter.
She did it with such ease that I felt a pang of jealousy and… decided to sketch a pencil portrait of my Kasia.
Instead of a portrait of my wife, I drew Beethoven. And that is how it all began.
LEARNING
I had no one to take watercolor lessons from. A well-known painter agreed to give me a few lessons, but insisted that I should start with oil painting, because watercolor is the most difficult of techniques. I politely thanked her after the first lesson and… found Paul Clark. Paul became my most important teacher on the internet. I followed his YouTube profile, and that was when paintings began to appear as exercises and attempts to approach his way of working.
I also exchanged a few words with Paul on YouTube. I am showing you these works to prove how much I owe to Paul and his tutorials. Thank you, Paul.
EARLY ATTEMPTS
I am deliberately leaving a few older works here. Not to pretend that everything came out right from the beginning, because it did not — but to show the road I have travelled (and I still have a long way to go).
