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Pocket Sketching with Kath Macaulay
Website: | https://pocketsketching.com/ |
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Next Airing: | Tue, Feb 11th, 2025 at 3:30 PM on UEN-TV |
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POCKET SKETCHING IS designed for both beginners and the advanced artist. Beginners can follow each episode and enjoy the fun of success, while the advanced artist finds a fast, totally portable, compact technique that goes anywhere. Each episode demonstrates a new skill. Nothing is threatening: the supplies are few, and everything's compact and portable with no clean-up. Pocket Sketching demonstrates how one can capture magic on paper in 25 minutes or less.
Episodes:
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Wet In Wet
If you love the sloshy looseness of some watercolor paintings, enjoy a lack of control, except where you want control. The colors that happen and the effects are delightful.
Next Airing: Tue, Feb 11th, 2025 at 3:30 PM on UEN-TV Length: 00:26:45 Usage rights: 7/20/2023 to 7/19/2026 -
Flowers Outdoors
When outdoors, you see bunches of flowers unless you focus on one. Kath demonstrates how to get the feeling of many flowers as they appear outdoors.
Next Airing: Tue, Feb 18th, 2025 at 3:30 PM on UEN-TV Length: 00:26:45 Usage rights: 7/27/2023 to 7/26/2026 -
On Location with Water and Plein Air
Kath explores how to stay focused with distractions, how to use the equipment outdoors, making adjustments as you sketch and how to pick and isolate a focal point while limiting time.
Next Airing: Tue, Feb 25th, 2025 at 3:30 PM on UEN-TV Length: 00:26:45 Usage rights: 8/3/2023 to 8/2/2026 -
Plein Air with Architecture
Kath demonstrates sketching with a huge advantage: the timer! If you don't like the location or the results, you wasted only 25 minutes of your life and have lots of time to do another!
Next Airing: Tue, Mar 4th, 2025 at 3:30 PM on UEN-TV Length: 00:26:45 Usage rights: 8/10/2023 to 8/9/2026 -
The 'Why' of Pocket Sketching
There are no rules and no expectations for quality of work with Pocket Sketching. Instead, the only demand is the pleasure of creating, learning, and relaxing. Kath demonstrates that the goal is not to replicate, but to record what you think you see using lines and wash drawings.
Next Airing: Tue, Mar 11th, 2025 at 3:30 PM on UEN-TV Length: 00:29:00 Usage rights: 1/2/2025 to 1/1/2028 -
The Basics of Pocket Sketching
Kath demonstrates a lot of the techniques she uses when sketching, and how best to keep things portable and mobile to fit every scenario.
Next Airing: Tue, Mar 18th, 2025 at 3:30 PM on UEN-TV Length: 00:29:00 Usage rights: 1/9/2025 to 1/8/2028 -
Sketching Equipment and Tips
Kath demos each piece of equipment, why it is selected and how to use it. Kath shares an unusual way to politely repel interference, how to use your bag as an easel and how to unload it for use, then reload it very quickly without ever putting anything down. And, how to use the pen and brush for wash drawings and how to access your 'chi' in your sketches.
Next Airing: Tue, Mar 25th, 2025 at 3:30 PM on UEN-TV Length: 00:29:00 Usage rights: 1/16/2025 to 1/15/2028 -
Travel Sketching
Kath illustrates a different experience when sketching while traveling: slowing down to truly 'see' in a meditative state. Also, Kath discusses the importance of limiting your time of execution to keep your work fresh and your interest peaked.
Next Airing: Tue, Apr 1st, 2025 at 3:30 PM on UEN-TV Length: 00:29:00 Usage rights: 1/23/2025 to 1/22/2028 -
The Permanent Pen, Dilute Paint, and Using a Large Pad
Kath explains how a permanent pen can be used for very quick sketches that still provoke memory. Also, the use of dilute paint as a medium is explored, and how one would utilize a larger pad of paper.
Next Airing: Tue, Apr 8th, 2025 at 3:30 PM on UEN-TV Length: 00:29:00 Usage rights: 1/30/2025 to 1/29/2028 -
Fear and Fixing It
Kath talks about the fear of not doing perfect work, fear of being seen to not be 'a good painter', fear of the overwhelmingly complex outdoor world, and how to cancel them all to simply have a great time and revel in a "It doesn't matter" mentality.
Next Airing: Tue, Apr 15th, 2025 at 3:30 PM on UEN-TV Length: 00:29:00 Usage rights: 2/6/2025 to 2/5/2028 -
Stuck Inside
Kath shows what to sketch when you can't go outdoors, ways to 'see' outdoors and things to do indoors, and how to put items together to make a "still life" when they are not in context.
Next Airing: Tue, Apr 22nd, 2025 at 3:30 PM on UEN-TV Length: 00:29:00 Usage rights: 2/13/2025 to 2/12/2028 -
Sketching Buildings
Kath illustrates the change of perspective if your eye level changes. Since the goal is to sketch and not create an architectural photograph, free hand is adequate without a ruler.
Next Airing: Tue, Apr 29th, 2025 at 3:30 PM on UEN-TV Length: 00:29:00 Usage rights: 2/20/2025 to 2/19/2028 -
Time to Decorate!
Kath plays with the freedom to exaggerate. See her work with unlimited color and distortion, and see the difference a frame makes in presentation and your self-evaluation of your finished sketch.
Next Airing: Tue, May 6th, 2025 at 3:30 PM on UEN-TV Length: 00:29:00 Usage rights: 2/27/2025 to 2/26/2028 -
People Near and Far
Sketching people in the distance is incredibly easy. Kath demonstrates how to make a 'good one' stand out in a crowd. When using small size paper there is no need for perfection of detail such as hands, ears and facial features, and even faces. Also, a conversation on how to get people in public to willingly 'pose' for you.
Next Airing: Tue, May 13th, 2025 at 3:30 PM on UEN-TV Length: 00:29:00 Usage rights: 3/6/2025 to 3/4/2028 -
Props and People
Kath herself imitates what a person up close can look like when trying to sketch them. She discusses the importance of props and what the person is doing, how you can see the proportions, and where and how to begin.
Next Airing: Tue, May 20th, 2025 at 3:30 PM on UEN-TV Length: 00:29:00 Usage rights: 3/13/2025 to 3/11/2028 -
Outside in a Parking Lot
This episode's sketch is done in a parking lot outside, showing how you move the elements to be used into a pleasing design, emphasizing what you want instead of accepting it as the camera would.
Next Airing: Tue, May 27th, 2025 at 3:30 PM on UEN-TV Length: 00:29:00 Usage rights: 3/20/2025 to 3/18/2028 -
Dilute Paint As A Drawing Medium
Enjoy an extremely efficient way to draw with the 'mess' in the lid of your paint set, as John Singer Sargent used. You can change anything easily, all you need is a dirty box lid!
Length: 00:26:45 Usage rights: 7/13/2023 to 7/12/2026 -
Distance and Depth
Using color, contrast and focal point, Kath talks about creating distance and importance, and editing things in and out as you THINK you see them.
Length: 00:26:45 Usage rights: 7/6/2023 to 7/5/2026 -
Gouache
Kath talks about what gouache is, how to use it and why it is difficult to use in the field with transparent watercolor when you want to work quickly.
Length: 00:26:45 Usage rights: 6/22/2023 to 6/21/2026 -
Journaling
Since words double the meaning, Kath shows how to incorporate them into sketches. Pocket Sketching was developed for travel journaling, and sketching can be immersive and help to remember the trip from your journal entries.
Length: 00:26:45 Usage rights: 6/29/2023 to 6/28/2026 -
Water Soluble Line
Kath explains and demonstrates how to control the lights and darks of the water-soluble line, and when and how to add water to get the results you want.
Length: 00:26:45 Usage rights: 6/15/2023 to 6/14/2026
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