{"id":428,"date":"2014-08-23T18:21:09","date_gmt":"2014-08-23T18:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stephen-martyn.com\/blog\/?p=428"},"modified":"2014-08-23T18:21:09","modified_gmt":"2014-08-23T18:21:09","slug":"more-sketching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/learnwatercolour.com\/blog\/uncategorized\/more-sketching\/","title":{"rendered":"More sketching"},"content":{"rendered":"

You might remember that my last post showed a group sketching at Castle Rising, with everyone peering into the distance at – what? Well, as you can perhaps see from my own demonstration sketch, it was a distant church that could just be glimpsed between a couple of trees.

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St Felix church, Castle Rising. Pen and wash sketch on Langton rough paper 12ins x 9ins.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n

That’s the great thing about painting on location. If there’s a tree in the way, just take it out, or move it to one side. Here, I’ve attempted to make an interesting sketch by using several simple devices. I ignored the small trees that were at the edge of the field and let the eye go through to the church, which I emphasised by making it a little bit larger than it actually appeared, and used the pen to give it a distinct outline. I made sure that it made a good light to dark contrast against some trees behind it. I painted quite a lively sky, and then finally added some interest to the foreground with a few dry-brushed marks on the green field.<\/p>\n

All very simple, and somehow much easier to work out when you’re actually on the spot rather than working from a photograph. Why not get out with a sketchbook today!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

You might remember that my last post showed a group sketching at Castle Rising, with everyone peering into the distance at – what? Well, as you can perhaps see from my own demonstration sketch, it was a distant church that could just be glimpsed between a couple of trees. That’s the great thing about painting … Continue reading More sketching<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p72Akd-6U","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/learnwatercolour.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/learnwatercolour.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/learnwatercolour.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learnwatercolour.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learnwatercolour.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/learnwatercolour.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/learnwatercolour.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learnwatercolour.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learnwatercolour.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}