MASTER LESSON 4: Apply a Plan Before You Paint
In the master lesson, work out a plan for your painting as shown in the video in Lesson One of this unit. Create a finished work of art from the plan.
Westward Ho! When dirt roads were the normal means of transportation, a traveler knew first hand why one stayed on the path of the ones who went before him. Straying off the path, would result in a wheel sinking into soft ground. While we can learn much from following the paths of others, there is reason to move in an unexplored direction occasionally. Roger Von Oech writes, “Creative thinking is not only constructive, it’s also destructive. Often, you have to break out of one pattern to discover another one (Von Oech 70).” Today, choose an approach that has been taught, but that you rarely use to create a painting. Handle watercolors in a new way, make new types of marks, or modify how you make them to break free from painting in the same way each time.
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You can see the very familiar steps that we’ve taken for most of the demonstrations in this book.
Find a photo reference. (1) Draw the outline on paper. (2) Add the first layers of color in shapes using wet-on-dry technique. (3) Fill in the second layers with washes in darker colors. (4) Add the final details in the foreground and throughout the picture.
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