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Pocket Sketching with Kath Macaulay
Color and Color Mixing
Season 1
Episode 7
Kath demonstrates the usual color wheel compared to John F. Carlson’s and how and why to use it, creating your own, and several methods of color mixing to get a good knowledge of the colors in the box. This includes use of gouache and its limitations in fast field sketching with watercolor. She emphasizes the importance of doing disciplined exercises right only once, and preplanning a reward.
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Always keep equipment at a minimum so you have portability and will sketch.
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Because you can’t always go somewhere, why not relive the best places?
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Kath demonstrates how to stay in private in public and how to get people to enjoy posing.
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Kath demonstrates several ways to cut time dramatically and still get the essence.
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Kath demonstrates emphasizing brush handling.
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Kath demonstrates making changes on the copied image to “get it right”.
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Kath demonstrates what she found in color and contrast to make a sketch have vitality.
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Kath does a demonstration of a very moody evening scene of an adobe house in New Mexico.
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Kath stresses the importance of focal point.
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Kath demonstrates building distance in a landscape view by manipulating color and contrast
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Kath demonstrates how to change the supplies bag from cross body bag to easel.