Watercolour painting techniques and how to paint portraits with Cliff Hosking I Colour In Your Life

In this fine art TV show episode Cliff Hosking is interviewed with Colour In Your Life about painting, drawing, art workshops, art tips and art techniques. Help support CIYL's growth around the globe and become a patron of the arts today at: https://www.patreon.com/colourinyourlife https://www.youtube.com/c/ColourinyourlifeAu New fine art TV show episodes loaded every Wednesday AEST. https://www.facebook.com/PutSomeColourInYourLife/ https://www.colourinyourlife.com.au/ Fine Art TV Series - Colour In Your Life Season - 07 Episode - 12 Filmed on Location at - Mount Hutton, NSW, Australia Cliff Hosking has always loved drawing, having an interest in foreshortening and perspective from the time he was five. Continuing to draw in his school years, Cliff won a few drawing and painting prizes, and sold his first artwork at thirteen years of age. Cliff Hosking was a good student, and eventually completed a degree in Medicine at Queensland University, specialising in Paediatrics. Living in Melbourne for twenty years, Cliff Hosking had a career in Paediatric Allergy, which involved him in Clinical and Laboratory work and research. Throughout his career he painted and drew, always doing portraits of fellow attendees at meetings. During his early career, Cliff Hosking attended as many courses in art as possible. Starting off with oil painting, he tried the ‘new’ acrylic paints when they came in, but they were not the chemistry and colours they are now, and he soon gave them away. It was in London in about 1967 that Cliff Hosking saw a JMW Turner watercolour exhibition. This essentially turned Cliff’s life around, and he has been devoted to watercolours since. In Melbourne in 1969, he met up with Margaret Cowling, an excellent watercolourist and teacher who mentored him for many years. She has been a huge influence on his skills. Cliff Hosking began exhibiting in a small group with her and two friends in Melbourne and Swan Hill. This allowed for Cliff to get together a significant collection of work, and he has concentrated on this method of exhibiting his work ever since. He loves working like mad to get an exhibition together and seeing it tastefully hung. It was almost by accident that Cliff Hosking began teaching watercolour. During his first ‘Painting with Light’ exhibition at the John Hunter Hospital, he gave a demonstration in watercolour painting, and had a friend request to learn from him. It was only a few short steps from that to organising a venue and advertising, and before he knew it he had a handful of students and has enjoyed teaching ever since. Cliff Hosking is inspired by nature, loving water in many of its manifestations, whether it be liquid, snow, ice and steam. In the last five years Cliff has become very interested in portraiture and life drawing. Cliff Hosking says, about his painting style, “I am trying to convey the beauty of light interacting with the atmosphere and solid objects in its path. A scene looks different every hour during the day and with the passing of seasons. Watercolour, that magic mixture of pigment, paper and water, gives me the tools to produce the vision I have in my mind”. You can contact the artist about their art tips or art techniques directly via their website http://www.cliffhoskingart.com/ The Colour In Your Life TV series is an art show that takes you into the everyday studios of artists from around the world. While in the studio they share their individual techniques with the viewer in a relaxed atmosphere with a delightfully Australian host and fellow artist Graeme Stevenson. The series is currently filmed in Australia, New Zealand and the United States. Colour In Your Life is an Australian produced TV art show and website http://www.colourinyourlife.com.au Graeme Stevenson, a world renowned Artist himself, rides his Harley Davidson to the studios of Artists all over the world and allows the viewers a chance to go into the Art studios of some of the greatest Artists in the world. A wonderfully engaging show that allows people to see inside the minds and the abilities of some of the most creative people in the world. If you love creativity and the shear joy of looking at the world through Art, then Colour In Your Life is the place too be. Subscribe here - http://bit.ly/ColourInYourLifeOil Painting for Beginners https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8NVVTeDHNks&t=19s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vnvh86OMhbs&t=47s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZhAIvek7QH4&t=148s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTCCRsOnGIo Landscape Painting Tutorials: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=81w9PBZOmZ8&list=PL1K0qr2zZV7BjQ7sETvm9nmeZsH-1f_JP https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5ZVhxdpftU&list=PL1K0qr2zZV7CSmiFWkoRt1GBntqqPGSau How to Paint Watercolour: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_udWJtZ-yY&index=22&list=PL1K0qr2zZV7Aa2_8r2rrardYO_0o8sCIU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4jScO-4vvw&index=8&list=PL1K0qr2zZV7Aa2_8r2rrardYO_0o8sCIU