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Pocket Sketching with Kath Macaulay
Working in Public Among People
Season 1
Episode 12
Kath demonstrates how to “stay in private in public” and how to get people to enjoy posing for you, along with where to find models in everyday life for practice. So that when you go out, you have experience and see that including people in your sketches is both easy and delightful.
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Kath discusses the dark colors that make the light colors work.

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For extreme speed, go with just grey scale or use color for only the focal point.

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The difference is words. The addition of words doubles the meaning. Date the entry.

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When you really want portability, keep everything compact instead of big.

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You are building a composition of things from different places.

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Always start with a daisy: it’s the easiest flower.

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It is never messy and is archival so you don’t remove it.

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In the process you will find out why you picked it and how it was made.

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The sketch will remind you of everything you didn’t sketch right down to the smells.