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Pocket Sketching with Kath Macaulay
Fix 'Em
Season 2
Episode 10
When you don’t feel like starting anything, grab 4 or 5 poor sketches and try to fix them. Use contrast, color, focal point. Great review: two may get better, while 3 get worse, but they weren’t good anyway. Great review of the importance of the basics.
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27:00
Because you can’t always go somewhere, why not relive the best places?

26:45
Kath demonstrates how to stay in private in public and how to get people to enjoy posing.

26:45
Kath demonstrates several ways to cut time dramatically and still get the essence.

26:46
Kath demonstrates emphasizing brush handling.

26:46
Kath demonstrates making changes on the copied image to “get it right”.

26:46
Kath demonstrates what she found in color and contrast to make a sketch have vitality.

26:46
Kath demonstrates the usual color wheel.

26:45
Kath does a demonstration of a very moody evening scene of an adobe house in New Mexico.

26:46
Kath stresses the importance of focal point.

26:46
Kath demonstrates building distance in a landscape view by manipulating color and contrast

26:46
Kath demonstrates how to change the supplies bag from cross body bag to easel.