Leisure Painter

Let’s draw

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

Practise applying a wash, stippling, rubbing, dry-on-dry and lifting-off techniques using water-soluble pencils

In this year-long drawing series we have been exploring a variety of mark-making techniques to create different effects. We now put this theory into practice by combining several techniques to draw an interesting scene. (below) is an acrylic painting on canvas that was inspired by the seaside ruins at Kingston on Norfolk Island. Follow my demonstration to reinterpret the scene as a drawing using wet and dry media

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