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Pocket Sketching with Kath Macaulay
Really ‘Wet’ Watercolor on a Small Scale
Season 1
Episode 10
Kath demonstrates emphasizing brush handling and the vast difference between scientific illustration and wet, impressionistic, emotional watercolor which shows the energy of the sketcher at any moment because of how the brush is manipulated. She ends with how to remove buckling of the paper.
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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.