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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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Always keep equipment at a minimum so you have portability and will sketch.
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 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.