Artist Studio
I want to carry on with the expressive theme and begin this exercise with either some splatters of color on randomly wet paper or a few bold vigorous brush marks and then let this action lead to the next action. Try to react to the previous step and just build the painting based on action
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Again in this jumpstart I am using some very expressive and playful brushwork, but using a brush well is a major skill, that can’t be overlooked or practiced enough. It might seem like all you are doing is making random and meaningless marks and the result is a messy painting, but you are really developing
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Looking Down Today I want you to imagine you are looking down on an imaginary landscape. For mine I am looking down on a piece of farmland as it borders a body of water. I take the back of a failed painting and yes I have a bunch of them and if you don’t you
Take out a good quality drawing tool, something like a 4B or darker pencil, a graphite stick, something that is holds on to the paper but does allow some modification. Start somewhere on the paper and begin to draw a line, try not to lift your drawing implement vary the pressure and angle really try