Learning objectives
■ Work with colour studies
■ How to scale up a drawing
■ Loosen up your style
In last month's article we explored the theme of notan thumbnail sketches, three-tone monochrome and finally five-tone monochrome sketches. The main aim of this process was to steady the nerves and finalise a road map to assist in a finished piece of work. Hopefully you will have searched through your photo archive, selected a theme and given the processes a go, ideally using a brush and single pigment. The reason I emphasise this, is that by using brush and paint you will have started to breakdown the mental barriers that may have been a contributory factor for overlooking the photo in the first instance.
In this article we will cover colour studies, how to scale up the drawing and finishing a piece of work.
Colour studies
Whether we like it or not, we are all creatures of habit, and in this instance, I'm referring to colour selection. I tend to select automatically phthalo blue, burnt sienna and alizarin crimson when painting, which is not necessarily a bad thing, but painting by rote may be a
