Here is just a tiny selection of the testimonials that have been sent to me since 2005. 

I have taken the watercolour, watercolour fast and loose, landscape courses and now I'm doing the oil painting course.
All the materials are very easy to understand and follow, excellent introductions to new techniques via videos and a course that builds on past learning.  Encouragement to try out your own pictures using the recently leaned skills.  What more can we ask for?  I have tried so many new ways of painting as a result.   I would not have even dreamed some of them were possible.  Thank you so much.    Suzie Dodsworth

Thank you for your lovely audio and video presentations- they help enormously; very encouraging! Chris Chappell

Your courses are excellent - clear and easy to follow - and far better than others I have tried and excellent value. Richard Mottershead

These courses are the best value for money I have seen.   I have really enjoyed doing them all. Janet Leveson

The lessons are well presented and the video demo and verbal explanation is excellent. Neville Power

I just wish I had a course like this available to me years ago when I embarked upon the first of many abortive missions to teach myself, all of which ended in frustration. The pace of learning and the gradual building of skills is just perfect, without becoming overwhelming, even for me - a busy person with my own business. Keep up the great work and thanks for helping to unravel the mysteries of techniques which now seem quite straightforward after your explanations and illustrations. James Whitehead UK

I'd just like to say how much I've been enjoying your learning to draw course. I've been taking it at my own pace as I'm very much a beginner - liked drawing but no idea of how to go about learning properly. Your course is so clear; the audio, video and excellent notes. And so reasonable - I know that local classes can cost hundreds! I'm retired and enjoy walking a lot and I find an added bonus in that the course has made me look at my surroundings with a fresh 'eye'. 
Thanks again, Derek Thorp

I am just writing in to tell you how much I am enjoying the course!! I have been handling watercolors since I was in school and had even attended an year of art school, but what I have learned in just the first three issues has been incredible!!! I suddenly realized that my approach to handling watercolors was so wrong. I have been practicing all your exercises (havn't been able to put my brush down for the past 4 hrs) and am already feeling more confident. Your course beats any book on watercolor hands down. Thank you so very much!!! Sophia Philips

 I've now completed my watercolour course with you and it has been absolutely fantastic. Your course has offered everything to me, a complete beginner. The detailed notes were easy to follow and the video clips showing techniques etc were very informative and just what I needed. I've loved the whole course and never thought I'd be able to produce some of the projects you set. My family and friends are very encouraging with what I've done which makes me just want to paint all the more.  So thank you very much for giving me a good ground base to go on and enjoy my painting. 
Janice Gardner, UK

 Many many thanks for designing and sending me the watercolour course. It is really great, with no head-scratching impasses from incompleteness or obscurity. I'm enjoying it a lot and it's making sure that I learn or have learnt the basic skills of watercolour painting.  You are an excellent teacher, as can be seen from your organization of the material and your clarity of style when presenting new material. 
Thank you! Tony Macelli, USA

  I just needed to say that your courses, both watercolor and acrylics are really great. One of the best things I ever found on the net. 
 They help me a lot in my teaching and in my painting as well. Thank you!!!  Mariela Konstandinidou

 I have four watercolour books on my shelf but up till now I hadn't painted a single picture. After only 3 lessons with Andy I am motivated & can't wait to get to my paint box every day!  Maggie France

I am thoroughly enjoying the course, and though there are a lot of things I have done before, nevertheless, they are described in such a way that they become easier. I also like your explanations of what might have gone wrong, and I have learned more from that than I could have been taught in a 100 books. Technique is all, that is quite clear. The course is also interesting, which helps motivation hugely.  Gail Seery, USA

I have to tell you that I think I can throw away all of my useless watercolor books. Your lessons are terrific and the videos really make it--so important to see someone do it instead of just having to read it and then try and figure it out.
And from a designer standpoint, I must tell you that the manner in which you assembled the printed pages is really wonderful--so clear and a great format.  I would not hesitate to recommend this to someone else. Wish you were in the states, would love to take a class from you in person, but this is surely the next best thing.  Donna McMenamin USA

I am so enjoying the course and am very pleased with my progress. I am receiving complements from everyone on my improvement. I can work at my own pace and on my own schedule with your lessons.  Learn to do watercolour painting is a dream come true for me. Thank you so much.  Lucy Boucher USA

 I so appreciate the care that you have taken to craft these lessons. They are wonderful at many different levels -- they are informative, creative and clever. A fan.  Swati Mukerjee USA

What a wonderful journey you have taken me on. I cannot believe that I will have no further e-mails to look forward to with great anticipation.  I shall treasure my now completed booklet of inspiration and direction and must say a great big thank you to you for the trip of a lifetime.  I am really going to miss you. Karen Rowbotham USA

Thank you...oh, thank you !  The watercolour course has been simply THE BEST !  It has done everything I have wanted it to do for my painting !!  It has provided me with a freedom with brush and paint that I never realized with oils. And it has introduced me to the great challenges of painting with water, pigment and brush on paper.  Bravo for you and all the aspects of the course.
During the course with you I have explored many other painter's use of watercolour, and, through the groundwork from you, I have been able to assimilate some of their notions of painting with yours.  I am thrilled beyond words.   
 Thank you again.  your instruction is so sound and geared towards so much which relates to painting, whether oils, watercolour or acrylics.  
 I am truly grateful. Ted Beardsley, USA

Just to let you know I am much enjoying my lessons.  I have been painting in a very amateurish way for some time but have never been taught.  So it is good to break myself of bad habits (painting out, painting over, poor construction).  You introduce us gently to new ways of approaching a wet, blank paper gummed to a frame, which, on one's own, can be intimidating!  Many thanks. Charlotte Corbett, France


I have to write and say how much I'm enjoying the watercolour course.  I've always wanted to paint and this course is helping and encouraging me so much, its great fun. J. Gardner UK



Your course is wonderful. The material is excellent! Susan Massey, USA