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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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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 demonstrates the usual color wheel.
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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 how to change the supplies bag from cross body bag to easel.