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Pocket Sketching with Kath Macaulay
Using Color and Contrast
Season 1
Episode 8
Using a photo of a cottonwood tree Kath sketched plein air unsuccessfully for most of a week, Kath demonstrates what she found in color and contrast to make the sketch have vitality. She emphasizes the conscious change to real observing, versus training as a child to do stereotyped images of trees, clouds and other forms. The real world is not what we have as tapes in our heads.
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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.