Most of my ‘training’ has come from practising, and from books on art, although I’m quite poor at following instructions. I usually find a picture or artist I really admire, and simply say, ‘I want to do that’ … jumping straight into trying to achieve that quality of work without pausing to find instructions about how to do it. This can have its drawbacks at times!
I have had no formal training, except a little in high school. After the mandatory early years of art classes in school, I avoided the subject – drawing and painting purely for myself – until working as stage manager on a school performance
