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Pocket Sketching with Kath Macaulay

Sketching Buildings

Season 4 Episode 8

Kath illustrates the change of perspective if your eye level changes. Since the goal is to sketch and not create an architectural photograph, free-hand is adequate without a ruler.

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Plein Air with Architecture
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Kath demonstrates sketching with a huge advantage: the timer!
On Location with Water and Plein Air
26:46
Kath explores how to stay focused with distractions.
Flowers Outdoors
26:46
Kath demonstrates how to get the feeling of many flowers as they appear outdoors.
Wet in Wet
26:46
If you love the sloshy looseness of some watercolor paintings, enjoy a lack of control.
Dilute Paint as a Drawing Medium
26:46
Enjoy an extremely efficient way to draw with the ‘mess’ in the lid of your paint set.
Distance and Depth
26:46
Using color, contrast and focal point, Kath talks about creating distance and importance.
Journaling
26:46
Since words double the meaning, Kath shows how to incorporate them into sketches.
Gouache
26:46
Kath talks about what gouache is.
Water Soluble Line
26:46
Kath demonstrates how to control the lights and darks of the water-soluble line.
Clouds
26:46
Kath explains a major design element that can be manipulated.
Trees and Shrubs
26:46
Kath demonstrates how to make trees and shrubs identifiable from one another.
Care and Feeding of Equipment
26:46
Kath demonstrates how to get your equipment out and back without putting anything down.
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