I recently attended a very enjoyable Watercolour workshop in the Spanish Province of Andalusia with Artist Alvaro Castagnet. I was with a wonderful group of people who shared their appetite of the medium and Alvaro’s special way of painting. He injected into us the roar of the Lion and encouraged us all to paint in our own style using his techniques as a guide-rail. Alvaro is a magician with the paintbrush and taught us to exploit the light and mood of a scene. He inspired us to develop a vision for a painting based upon what we saw and not just paint it.
Cadiz Scene – Original watercolour by Mark Gittins
I have loaded a couple of my own paintings from the course within my gallery page. Above is also one of the scenes I painted from the course.
Alvaro Castagnet in action
Off to paint now putting what I learnt into practise!
Hello Mark! My name is Denis. Thank you so much for your interested article about Alvaro! It is so interested .. if you are interested in Alvaro lessons, I propose to exchange video lessons by Alvaro Castagnet. I have his following lessons ( Full Dvd Version uploaded to youtube with private access) : Paris, Antwerpen, Northern England, a lot of China, Spain (English and spanish version). If you have his wonderful videolesson in Cuba, Havana or official videolessons Joseph Zbukvic, please tel me by email, and we can exchange videos in youtube.. ( sharing options: uploading videos to YouTube with private access, access via a link ..)
Best regards, Denis