You can see previous sketchbook tests, reviews and posts on this blog over here: Sketchbook Practice – Notes for Watercolor Artists Eliminate complexity, edit out figures, or foreground, or even shapes that jut into your composition.īe the Art Boss, and Prune all but the basic, largest shapes. (See more about simplified landscape watercolor sketching here.) No details. With light pencil, lay in general shapes, as though you planned to cut a wooden puzzle from your drawing. Set up 12 boxes in your sketchbook with light pencil, and then pull your thumbnail photos close. This is one of my favorite exercises for quick sketching, watercolor, monotypes or pastels… Using reference photos of shorelines to render basic, blocky shapes in light pencil on a Hahnemühle watercolor sketchbook. When you’ve chosen 12 photos in a theme (similar color palette, subject, location, or pattern, etc.), print them as thumbnails (press command key + P, and then select the layout from the panel on the right). You can choose to view of All Photos in that app, and then hold the command button down on your keyboard, and click/select – one by one – a bunch of photos to use as a reference. I store all my photos on my Apple computer, in the cloud, using the Apple Photos Application. (There may or may not have been accompanying crackers, olive tapenade and wine involved in this experiment.) Printing Thumbnail Photos to Sketch and Paint I used a ruler to grid 12 squares across a double page of a Hahnemühle Watercolor Sketchpad. I’m testing another watercolor sketchbook with a series of small watercolor landscape studies featuring coastal scenes. Watercolor Landscape Studies in a Sketchbook
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