Archive for April, 2010

Going Big

Apr 5th, 2010 Posted in A Studio of One's Own, Studies: Composition, Design, Sketches | one comment »

I’ve been getting finicky lately and needed to “reset” meaning take what I learned from Rick Piloco’s sketch class (which I took a few years ago). Think big, get the right value/color right, put it down and leave it alone.

My smallest brush was a large round size 6. It was a great way to prevent myself from getting too tight too soon so that I could properly work from general to specific. Also, in a 3 hour sketch (I’m just used to much longer) I usually run out of time before I an get to anything specific and I find that this can be a good thing for me.

Sketch-whitt-403

oil sketch, 18" x 24"

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