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Pocket Sketching with Kath Macaulay
Focal Point
Season 1
Episode 5
Kath stresses the importance of focal point. She shows very good and very bad examples she created, the value of timing each sketch, keeping time on the paper and staying within 25 minutes, how to isolate the focal point, stay on it, and leave, feeling good. The delight of stopping a bad sketch and starting a new sketch or simply leaving.
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Kath demonstrates sketching with a huge advantage: the timer!
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Kath explores how to stay focused with distractions.
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Kath demonstrates how to get the feeling of many flowers as they appear outdoors.
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If you love the sloshy looseness of some watercolor paintings, enjoy a lack of control.
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Enjoy an extremely efficient way to draw with the ‘mess’ in the lid of your paint set.
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Using color, contrast and focal point, Kath talks about creating distance and importance.
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Since words double the meaning, Kath shows how to incorporate them into sketches.
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Kath demonstrates how to control the lights and darks of the water-soluble line.
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Kath demonstrates how to make trees and shrubs identifiable from one another.
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Kath demonstrates how to get your equipment out and back without putting anything down.