From the course: Drawing Foundations: Urban Sketching
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Matching materials and marks to your subject: Color
From the course: Drawing Foundations: Urban Sketching
Matching materials and marks to your subject: Color
- We're now going to revisit the pencil sketch we did earlier of the cottages and with a couple of colors I'm going to show you how you can create the illusion of a more complicated painting by blocking in simple flashes of color that are all of the same hue. So all I'm doing is swapping the gray tonal pens I used earlier for blocks of color. I'm still just thinking in blocks of tone. So by limiting your color choices and keeping it simple you can still achieve a good level of detail but now using color. I'm using Half Pan Winsor & Newton Watercolors and a sable round brush. This is a Number Four. So the first color I'm using is a Cadmium Red Pale and I'm adding water to it just to work it into the pan just to get this good consistency of paint. And then I can just blush that color just float it over here, the red in the center. Then this is a little bit of Burnt Sienna. A touch more water. So I'm not changing the tone of the paint much. I'm using the existing tone that I've got with…
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Thinking in straight lines: One building at a time7m 58s
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Light and shadow10m 9s
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Matching materials and marks to your subject: Pencil sketch11m 54s
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Matching materials and marks to your subject: Pen sketch5m 54s
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Matching materials and marks to your subject: Color6m 3s
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Challenge: How much detail is enough?1m 21s
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Solution: Will sketches a harbor scene4m 9s
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