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Pocket Sketching with Kath Macaulay
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Plein Air with ArchitectureThursday, April 25
11:30 am on UEN-TV 9.1Kath demonstrates sketching with a huge advantage: the timer! If you don't like the location or the results, you wasted only 25 minutes of your life and have lots of time to do another! -
Plein Air with ArchitectureThursday, April 25
5:30 am on UEN-TV 9.1Kath demonstrates sketching with a huge advantage: the timer! If you don't like the location or the results, you wasted only 25 minutes of your life and have lots of time to do another! -
JournalingTuesday, April 23
2:00 pm on UEN-TV 9.1The difference is words. The addition of words doubles the meaning. Date the entry. Leave space for words that tell what's important. Can be extremely personal and a private journal just for you. Can be a shared travel journal. Greeting cards as a travel journal. Also, how to pick a paper that will work with the pen. -
On Location with Water and Plein AirThursday, April 18
11:30 am on UEN-TV 9.1Kath explores how to stay focused with distractions, how to use the equipment outdoors, making adjustments as you sketch and how to pick and isolate a focal point while limiting time. -
On Location with Water and Plein AirThursday, April 18
5:30 am on UEN-TV 9.1Kath explores how to stay focused with distractions, how to use the equipment outdoors, making adjustments as you sketch and how to pick and isolate a focal point while limiting time. -
Fix 'emTuesday, April 16
2:00 pm on UEN-TV 9.1When you don't feel like starting anything, grab 4 or 5 poor sketches and try to fix them. Use contrast, color, focal point. Great review: two may get better, while 3 get worse, but they weren't good anyway. Great review of the importance of the basics. -
Flowers OutdoorsThursday, April 11
11:30 am on UEN-TV 9.1When outdoors, you see bunches of flowers unless you focus on one. Kath demonstrates how to get the feeling of many flowers as they appear outdoors. -
Flowers OutdoorsThursday, April 11
5:30 am on UEN-TV 9.1When outdoors, you see bunches of flowers unless you focus on one. Kath demonstrates how to get the feeling of many flowers as they appear outdoors. -
Field EquipmentTuesday, April 9
2:00 pm on UEN-TV 9.1When you really want portability, keep everything compact instead of big, thick sketchbooks that are hard bound. You want to see it, sketch it and leave within 25 minutes or less. You do not want to attract other people who will distract you. Plan to never put anything down on a table or easel where you will attract people or lose equipment. -
Wet In WetThursday, April 4
11:30 am on UEN-TV 9.1If you love the sloshy looseness of some watercolor paintings, enjoy a lack of control, except where you want control. The colors that happen and the effects are delightful. -
Wet In WetThursday, April 4
5:30 am on UEN-TV 9.1If you love the sloshy looseness of some watercolor paintings, enjoy a lack of control, except where you want control. The colors that happen and the effects are delightful. -
Cobbled Still LifeTuesday, April 2
2:00 pm on UEN-TV 9.1Apples in a bowl are boring. In a room pick 3 or 4 items which are not together. Go to them and block them in on your paper, one in front of the other. You are building a composition of things from different places. Go back to each to finish the sketch. Use 5 extra minutes to find your items. Now you can take things out of context in a landscape. -
Dilute Paint As A Drawing MediumThursday, March 28
11:30 am on UEN-TV 9.1Enjoy an extremely efficient way to draw with the 'mess' in the lid of your paint set, as John Singer Sargent used. You can change anything easily, all you need is a dirty box lid! -
Dilute Paint As A Drawing MediumThursday, March 28
5:30 am on UEN-TV 9.1Enjoy an extremely efficient way to draw with the 'mess' in the lid of your paint set, as John Singer Sargent used. You can change anything easily, all you need is a dirty box lid! -
Flowers and the TimerTuesday, March 26
2:00 pm on UEN-TV 9.1Always start with a daisy: it's the easiest flower. If you get it right, the viewer will think everything's good. Everything else is out of focus and simply color, even the vase. It's decorative, fun and the opposite of scientific illustration. Relax, enjoy. These look great when matted decoratively. Complete in 25 minutes or less, using a timer. Use everything you have learned: color, contrast, focal point, wax and scraping. -
Distance and DepthThursday, March 21
11:30 am on UEN-TV 9.1Using color, contrast and focal point, Kath talks about creating distance and importance, and editing things in and out as you THINK you see them. -
Distance and DepthThursday, March 21
5:30 am on UEN-TV 9.1Using color, contrast and focal point, Kath talks about creating distance and importance, and editing things in and out as you THINK you see them. -
Wax As A ResistTuesday, March 19
2:00 pm on UEN-TV 9.1John Singer Sargent, and others in the 1800s used a candle stub for wax as a resist. It is perfect for wind on water, bright reflections, and trees against the sky. Can be done in layers, holding each color as you build layers. It is never messy and is archival so you don't remove it. -
JournalingThursday, March 14
11:30 am on UEN-TV 9.1Since words double the meaning, Kath shows how to incorporate them into sketches. Pocket Sketching was developed for travel journaling, and sketching can be immersive and help to remember the trip from your journal entries. -
JournalingThursday, March 14
5:30 am on UEN-TV 9.1Since words double the meaning, Kath shows how to incorporate them into sketches. Pocket Sketching was developed for travel journaling, and sketching can be immersive and help to remember the trip from your journal entries. -
ScrapingTuesday, March 12
2:00 pm on UEN-TV 9.1Using an area already wet with water, scrape with any tool to clear an area. We used a credit card to clear rocks in a stream, then the end of the pen lid to scrape out bushes and trees. Thumb nails work well as scrapers. -
GouacheThursday, March 7
11:30 am on UEN-TV 9.1Kath talks about what gouache is, how to use it and why it is difficult to use in the field with transparent watercolor when you want to work quickly. -
GouacheThursday, March 7
5:30 am on UEN-TV 9.1Kath talks about what gouache is, how to use it and why it is difficult to use in the field with transparent watercolor when you want to work quickly. -
Copying from a MagazineTuesday, March 5
2:00 pm on UEN-TV 9.1Find a photo of a painting or sketch you like. There is a reason you like it, usually subliminal. Copy it in 25 minutes or less. In the process you will find out why you picked it and how it was made. You will incorporate this in your own work in the future.