Leisure Painter

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LEARNING OBJECTIVES

Build confidence in your drawing skills

How to simplify a complicated scene

Make tone an important part of a subject

Following last month’s questions, here are five more common problems related to building confidence when drawing outdoors, using your sketchbook and making more successful sketches and paintings.

PROBLEM 1 I want to draw outdoors, but don’t have the time or the confidence SOLUTION Do it anyway, but keep it simple

You know you ought to, and you want to, but it never quite works out. You take your sketchbook, make a few marks then get disappointed. There’s the embarrassment of strangers peering over your shoulder and saying: ‘Do you mind if I look?’ without waiting

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