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“It is in the order to really see, to see ever deeper, ever more intensely, hence to be fully aware and alive, that I draw what the Chinese call ‘The Ten Thousand Things’ around me. Drawing is the discipline by which I constantly rediscover the world.

I have learned that what I have not drawn, I have never really seen, and that when I start drawing an ordinary thing, I realize how extraordinary it is”.

(Frederick Franck, ‘The Zen of Seeing’).


Wednesday, 27 February 2013

201 - Seashore Tutorial

Another video tutorial from the Artist's Network this time by Grant Fuller. The bottom version is my original attempt and the top version has some extra white added digitally using Photoshop. I also added some darker values to the reflections of the trees and got rid of some of the glare from the camera flash.
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Thursday, 21 February 2013

200 - Terry Harrison Tutorial

Working along with one of the tutorials on Terry Harrison's video, 'Improve Your Trees in Watercolor'. What took him about 20 minutes to do has taken me half a day of pausing and rewinding and pausing.... and rewinding. My effort doesn't look half bad once photographed and reduced to the size of a large stamp but the original is a bit ropey, still it's all part of the learning process and hopefully in 6 months or a years time I will be able to look back and see a big improvement.

Of-course the downside is that I now 'must have' a set of Terry Harrison's special brushes.
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Friday, 15 February 2013

199 - Sterling Edwards Tutorial

A quick watercolor exercise following along with another Sterling Edwards video.
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