Last night at pastel class we did gesture drawings. Our teacher, Marsha, had a stack of photos to choose from and we had to quickly sketch our chosen photo. She wanted us to be quick and loose and no erasing was allowed. We were supposed to get just the essence of the scene down on the paper. At first we could only use a dark pastel, then we could add light and finally an intense color....but it all had to be line work...no coloring in! We will be able to use this idea for the gesture drawings when doing our thumbnails. It will be especially useful for getting a plein air painting started. If I have time today, I'd like to add color to these palm trees to see what happens.
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