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Pocket Sketching with Kath Macaulay

POCKET SKETCHING IS designed for both beginners and the advanced artist. Beginners can follow each episode and enjoy the fun of success, while the advanced artist finds a fast, totally portable, compact technique that goes anywhere. Each episode demonstrates a new skill. Nothing is threatening: the supplies are few, and everything's compact and portable with no clean-up. Pocket Sketching demonstrates how one can capture magic on paper in 25 minutes or less.

Pocket Sketching with Kath Macaulay  
  • Trees and Shrubs
    Tuesday, December 24
    3:30 pm on UEN-TV 9.1
    Both trees and shrubs are made of light and dark areas, not just leaves. Take the time to observe. Where are the darks? What colors are they not? Kath demonstrates how to make them identifiable from one another.
  • Clouds
    Tuesday, December 31
    3:30 pm on UEN-TV 9.1
    Clouds are made of water vapor and are perfect for watercolor. Pen lines don't make clouds, but a 'borrow pit' does. Kath explains a major design element that can be manipulated.
  • Water Soluble Line
    Tuesday, January 7
    3:30 pm on UEN-TV 9.1
    Kath explains and demonstrates how to control the lights and darks of the water-soluble line, and when and how to add water to get the results you want.
  • Gouache
    Tuesday, January 14
    3:30 pm on UEN-TV 9.1
    Kath 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.
  • Journaling
    Tuesday, January 21
    3:30 pm on UEN-TV 9.1
    Since 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.
  • Distance and Depth
    Tuesday, January 28
    3:30 pm on UEN-TV 9.1
    Using color, contrast and focal point, Kath talks about creating distance and importance, and editing things in and out as you THINK you see them.
  • Dilute Paint As A Drawing Medium
    Tuesday, February 4
    3:30 pm on UEN-TV 9.1
    Enjoy 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!
  • Wet In Wet
    Tuesday, February 11
    3:30 pm on UEN-TV 9.1
    If 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.
  • Flowers Outdoors
    Tuesday, February 18
    3:30 pm on UEN-TV 9.1
    When 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.
  • On Location with Water and Plein Air
    Tuesday, February 25
    3:30 pm on UEN-TV 9.1
    Kath 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.
  • Plein Air with Architecture
    Tuesday, March 4
    3:30 pm on UEN-TV 9.1
    Kath 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!

 

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  • Cobbled Still Life
    Thursday, December 19
    11:30 am on UEN-TV 9.1
    Apples 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.
  • Cobbled Still Life
    Thursday, December 19
    5:30 am on UEN-TV 9.1
    Apples 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.
  • Care and Feeding of Equipment
    Tuesday, December 17
    3:30 pm on UEN-TV 9.1
    For extreme portability, Kath demonstrates how to get your equipment out and back without putting anything down, how to handle human intrusion, and how to clean the paints, the set and the lid.
  • Flowers and the Timer
    Thursday, December 12
    11:30 am on UEN-TV 9.1
    Always 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.
  • Flowers and the Timer
    Thursday, December 12
    5:30 am on UEN-TV 9.1
    Always 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.
  • Water Splashing
    Tuesday, December 10
    3:30 pm on UEN-TV 9.1
    To make splashing water appear, you must show what's around it. Kath discusses the dark colors that make the light colors work, how the water needs very little pigment, and how to make the splash at the bottom.
  • Wax As A Resist
    Thursday, December 5
    11:30 am on UEN-TV 9.1
    John 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.
  • Wax As A Resist
    Thursday, December 5
    5:30 am on UEN-TV 9.1
    John 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.
  • The Monotone
    Tuesday, December 3
    3:30 pm on UEN-TV 9.1
    For extreme speed, go with just grey scale or use color for only the focal point. Convert a colored photo. No expensive equipment is needed: just "miles on the brush". Your pen will allow the grey scale made famous by Ansel Adams. You have a huge range of effect.
  • Scraping
    Thursday, November 28
    11:30 am on UEN-TV 9.1
    Using 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.
  • Scraping
    Thursday, November 28
    5:30 am on UEN-TV 9.1
    Using 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.
  • Food
    Tuesday, November 26
    3:30 pm on UEN-TV 9.1
    No timer needed. You've paid for it, you're hungry and it's getting cold. Start with a mark and possibly include any background. It's ephemeral, fast and fun. A bit about drinking and sketching.
  • Copying from a Magazine
    Thursday, November 21
    11:30 am on UEN-TV 9.1
    Find 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.
  • Copying from a Magazine
    Thursday, November 21
    5:30 am on UEN-TV 9.1
    Find 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.
  • Journaling
    Tuesday, November 19
    3:30 pm on UEN-TV 9.1
    The 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.
  • Focal Point
    Thursday, November 14
    11:30 am on UEN-TV 9.1
    Too much 'stuff' will wreak anything and take too much time. Find what caught your eye. Stay within 25 minutes. The sketch will remind you of everything you didn't sketch right down to the smells.
  • Focal Point
    Thursday, November 14
    5:30 am on UEN-TV 9.1
    Too much 'stuff' will wreak anything and take too much time. Find what caught your eye. Stay within 25 minutes. The sketch will remind you of everything you didn't sketch right down to the smells.
  • Fix 'em
    Tuesday, November 12
    3:30 pm on UEN-TV 9.1
    When 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.
  • Travel Journaling
    Thursday, November 7
    11:30 am on UEN-TV 9.1
    Always keep equipment at a minimum so you have portability and will sketch. If you bring too much ‘stuff’, you’ll never get it out. No scissors, tape, stencils, etc. A cheap calligraphy pen and your regular pen will allow you to embellish with squiggles, margins, always leaving space for words in the sketch. The sketch can be small, saving time. Embellish later.
  • Travel Journaling
    Thursday, November 7
    5:30 am on UEN-TV 9.1
    Always keep equipment at a minimum so you have portability and will sketch. If you bring too much ‘stuff’, you’ll never get it out. No scissors, tape, stencils, etc. A cheap calligraphy pen and your regular pen will allow you to embellish with squiggles, margins, always leaving space for words in the sketch. The sketch can be small, saving time. Embellish later.
  • Field Equipment
    Tuesday, November 5
    3:30 pm on UEN-TV 9.1
    When 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.