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Focal Point

Focal Point

Season 1 Episode 5
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Where to Start and How

Where to Start and How

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Color and Color Mixing

Color and Color Mixing

Season 1 Episode 7
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Using Color and Contrast

Using Color and Contrast

Season 1 Episode 8
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Speed of Execution

Speed of Execution

Season 1 Episode 11
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Working in Public Among People

Working in Public Among People

Season 1 Episode 12
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Pocket Sketching with Kath Macaulay Season 1

Water

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Virtual Travel

Virtual Travel

Season 2 Episode 1
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Travel Journaling

Travel Journaling

Season 2 Episode 2
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Pocket Sketching with Kath Macaulay

Perspective of Color and Contrast, Using a Photograph

Season 1 Episode 4

Kath demonstrates building distance in a landscape view by manipulating color and contrast. This shows a major difference between the limitations of the camera, and the ingenuity of an artist. Using a photo from the Olympic National Park, she emphases having fun, going fast, catching an impression and leaving!

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Plein Air with Architecture
26:46
Kath demonstrates sketching with a huge advantage: the timer!
On Location with Water and Plein Air
26:46
Kath explores how to stay focused with distractions.
Flowers Outdoors
26:46
Kath demonstrates how to get the feeling of many flowers as they appear outdoors.
Wet in Wet
26:46
If you love the sloshy looseness of some watercolor paintings, enjoy a lack of control.
Dilute Paint as a Drawing Medium
26:46
Enjoy an extremely efficient way to draw with the ‘mess’ in the lid of your paint set.
Distance and Depth
26:46
Using color, contrast and focal point, Kath talks about creating distance and importance.
Journaling
26:46
Since words double the meaning, Kath shows how to incorporate them into sketches.
Gouache
26:46
Kath talks about what gouache is.
Water Soluble Line
26:46
Kath demonstrates how to control the lights and darks of the water-soluble line.
Clouds
26:46
Kath explains a major design element that can be manipulated.
Trees and Shrubs
26:46
Kath demonstrates how to make trees and shrubs identifiable from one another.
Care and Feeding of Equipment
26:46
Kath demonstrates how to get your equipment out and back without putting anything down.
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