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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  
  • The Permanent Pen, Dilute Paint, and Using a Large Pad
    Tuesday, April 8
    3:30 pm on UEN-TV 9.1
    Kath explains how a permanent pen can be used for very quick sketches that still provoke memory. Also, the use of dilute paint as a medium is explored, and how one would utilize a larger pad of paper.
  • Fear and Fixing It
    Tuesday, April 15
    3:30 pm on UEN-TV 9.1
    Kath talks about the fear of not doing perfect work, fear of being seen to not be 'a good painter', fear of the overwhelmingly complex outdoor world, and how to cancel them all to simply have a great time and revel in a "It doesn't matter" mentality.
  • Stuck Inside
    Tuesday, April 22
    3:30 pm on UEN-TV 9.1
    Kath shows what to sketch when you can't go outdoors, ways to 'see' outdoors and things to do indoors, and how to put items together to make a "still life" when they are not in context.
  • Sketching Buildings
    Tuesday, April 29
    3:30 pm on UEN-TV 9.1
    Kath illustrates the change of perspective if your eye level changes. Since the goal is to sketch and not create an architectural photograph, free hand is adequate without a ruler.
  • Time to Decorate!
    Tuesday, May 6
    3:30 pm on UEN-TV 9.1
    Kath plays with the freedom to exaggerate. See her work with unlimited color and distortion, and see the difference a frame makes in presentation and your self-evaluation of your finished sketch.
  • People Near and Far
    Tuesday, May 13
    3:30 pm on UEN-TV 9.1
    Sketching people in the distance is incredibly easy. Kath demonstrates how to make a 'good one' stand out in a crowd. When using small size paper there is no need for perfection of detail such as hands, ears and facial features, and even faces. Also, a conversation on how to get people in public to willingly 'pose' for you.
  • Props and People
    Tuesday, May 20
    3:30 pm on UEN-TV 9.1
    Kath herself imitates what a person up close can look like when trying to sketch them. She discusses the importance of props and what the person is doing, how you can see the proportions, and where and how to begin.
  • Outside in a Parking Lot
    Tuesday, May 27
    3:30 pm on UEN-TV 9.1
    This episode's sketch is done in a parking lot outside, showing how you move the elements to be used into a pleasing design, emphasizing what you want instead of accepting it as the camera would.
  • Getting The Point of the Cactus
    Tuesday, June 3
    3:30 pm on UEN-TV 9.1
    This demonstration illustrates is the major use for Pocket Sketching, furthering the reason equipment is compact, portable, with no clean up. It can be used wherever you go, even outside next to a cactus!

 

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  • Wet In Wet
    Thursday, April 3
    11:30 am 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.
  • Wet In Wet
    Thursday, April 3
    5:30 am 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.
  • Travel Sketching
    Tuesday, April 1
    3:30 pm on UEN-TV 9.1
    Kath illustrates a different experience when sketching while traveling: slowing down to truly 'see' in a meditative state. Also, Kath discusses the importance of limiting your time of execution to keep your work fresh and your interest peaked.
  • Dilute Paint As A Drawing Medium
    Thursday, March 27
    11:30 am 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!
  • Dilute Paint As A Drawing Medium
    Thursday, March 27
    5:30 am 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!
  • Sketching Equipment and Tips
    Tuesday, March 25
    3:30 pm on UEN-TV 9.1
    Kath demos each piece of equipment, why it is selected and how to use it. Kath shares an unusual way to politely repel interference, how to use your bag as an easel and how to unload it for use, then reload it very quickly without ever putting anything down. And, how to use the pen and brush for wash drawings and how to access your 'chi' in your sketches.
  • Distance and Depth
    Thursday, March 20
    11:30 am 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.
  • Distance and Depth
    Thursday, March 20
    5:30 am 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.
  • The Basics of Pocket Sketching
    Tuesday, March 18
    3:30 pm on UEN-TV 9.1
    Kath demonstrates a lot of the techniques she uses when sketching, and how best to keep things portable and mobile to fit every scenario.
  • Journaling
    Thursday, March 13
    11:30 am 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.
  • Journaling
    Thursday, March 13
    5:30 am 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.
  • The 'Why' of Pocket Sketching
    Tuesday, March 11
    3:30 pm on UEN-TV 9.1
    There are no rules and no expectations for quality of work with Pocket Sketching. Instead, the only demand is the pleasure of creating, learning, and relaxing. Kath demonstrates that the goal is not to replicate, but to record what you think you see using lines and wash drawings.
  • Gouache
    Thursday, March 6
    11:30 am 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.
  • Gouache
    Thursday, March 6
    5:30 am 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.
  • 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!