- Hi, I'm Kath Macaulay.

I'm sketching on location in a park.

It's a beautiful sunny day.

My pad's over here because that's where the shade is, and it's a tad inconvenient but not that bad.

Sunglasses.

People say, well, doesn't that change the color?

Well, it changes the colors I'm looking at in the paint set too, and everything goes back in this bag.

Totally portable.

There isn't any cleanup, it's over.

I can just walk.

Thanks for coming.

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- Okay, I'm out in this gorgeous park.

There are beautiful things around here.

Sometimes you just find yourself where you are and you see what looks good.

Like look, I call it scan.

I scan along and see if something looks good.

And if it looks good, go back, check it out.

Is it a good spot?

Is it a non spot?

So I'm gonna keep looking and some buildings over there.

Not too interesting.

Nice cluster of trees way over there, and I'm sort of already settled down.

You might wanna know the difference of wearing sunglasses or not.

It doesn't matter.

You're looking at the paint through the sunglasses too.

(lid pops) So it just, it works.

The lid is going in the bag, so I don't put anything down.

Water's going over there.

Pad of paper's coming out.

Gotta have a nice clean piece of paper here, and just a minute, 'cause I've got a sketch.

Go onto a new piece of paper.

Now, put that under your wing while you get out a pen.

My intent is to put nothing down.

You put it down, you're gonna forget it.

Is that low enough?

Yeah.

Keep the pad in the shade.

If it's not in the shade, you're gonna burn out your eyes.

You're just not gonna be able to see very well.

It's not worth it.

So, is that a vertical?

Mm, I think it's gonna be a horizontal.

And I'm gonna move some things around.

There's a little tree over there, and it's a dark tree.

And I'm okay where it is, and I may put something in front of it, but it's started.

Look for the darks.

Now, there is a yellow tree behind it and a whole lot of yellow, and the tree cutting in from this side.

There's something that's gonna be quite dramatic at the end, I think.

And you see things as you go along.

Like there's a real dark right in there.

And I'm looking for some darks to help set it up.

Right next to that dark is the greatest light.

Oh, and then there's filmy red stuff.

Filmy red stuff is a tree.

And this continues on around.

Up to here.

It's not gonna be the greatest dark, but it's pretty good.

(laughs) I hear little kids yelling like that.

That's fun.

Well, I used to visit my mom who was a real fuss.

I had two absolutely wild little boys, and they had to agree with me to be perfectly quiet.

Never argue, no fingers on the walls, no swear words when they're at her house.

But there was a farm nearby.

It was quite hilly.

The deal was we'd go to the farm, and they could cut it up, swear like mad, fight.

They weren't supposed to come back with black eyes.

Fight, you know, be normal.

Be kids.

And listening to those little kids yell reminds me of that.

Okay, there are some structures in here.

I don't know what they are.

(goose honking) Sounds like a goose is about to, ah.

(laughs) They haven't started to fly yet.

It's really cool.

I mean, they're not practicing flight patterns.

Little bit later, you'll see 'em practice touchdown and go again.

Right now they're eating like mad.

That tree comes down lower.

There's some tree stuff.

Okay, this is gonna come in from the side, and I'm not ready for it.

This may not look possible right now.

Doesn't look possible to you.

It doesn't look too possible to me either.

But will it work?

There's a dark, not too close.

It's the darkest dark right there.

So far.

And there's a pretty dark side here.

To get that dark side.

Look for the dark side.

And there's a really pretty light tree that's in front of it.

And got it in and it has a dark side.

It's one of these squatty little willow type trees.

So that's in.

And at this point, there's plenty.

Put the pen away.

Put it under wing.

Got the water out already.

Just checked it.

Get the paints out.

At this point, if some paints are out of line, stick 'em back where you want 'em.

I do mixing on the back side.

Oh, by the way, a neat thing to be wearing is jeans.

The stuff washes out.

Just takes a minute to set up, and during that time you're sort of just getting into it.

Oh, that's convenient.

I'm sort of laughing at myself.

Do get the right side of the pad up.

Up, not down, up.

Bright, bright, bright color.

It's actually got a little green in it.

Start there.

Yep.

Want this one to be obvious at the end.

Way obvious.

And then there is some in here that's slightly mixed up.

Little bit of green, and it's going to have things running across it.

So I need to have it dry at the end.

Does it have bright spots?

Yeah, it's got bright spots.

That's gonna be the brightest right there.

Brightest color you've got is an orange.

Do I have a place to mix that?

Yeah.

Actually right here.

Good cadmium red, cadmium yellow.

Maybe you do wanna see it without my glasses.

Hope that's bright.

Oh, it will be.

It's gonna be bright.

Okay, where to go from here?

I don't wanna come all the way in with that dark green.

It is gonna be a dark green.

And it's funny, I haven't sketched with sunglasses on for a while, so I'm enjoying the experience.

I know things are a little darker than I expect.

(geese honking) And I have to admit, I mean, I know you can hear, you can hear the geese.

I wanna look at 'em.

If I look at 'em, I won't get anything done.

Okay, right now I'm running the paint out.

In other words, it's getting thinner and thinner and thinner to make the tops of those trees.

See it's a different color made out of the same batch of paint.

It is now thinned down.

That works.

Should be a tad greener in there maybe.

What happens if I add a touch of yellow?

That worked.

That I wanted it to be a real dark dark.

There's a color in there that's lighter, lighter and warmer as it comes over here.

When I say warmer, it's got more orange or yellow in it.

I want the pad to be a little bit flatter.

This paint set tends to be tipped, the back tips, which allows you to mix paint at the top, and then you have a new mixing space as it rolls down.

It also makes very natural colors as it flows.

So it's not all bad.

A little bit more of that coming up in there, 'cause this is quite diffuse.

We're gonna have branches going across it in a few minutes, but not quite yet.

Little bit of it down there.

Now, you can see where the lightest light is.

Over in here, I want a relatively clean light red, relatively clean.

Not real, that should do it.

There's gonna be some of that in here.

Normally I'd have my pad right in front of me, but this is where the shade is.

And you want to take advantage of the shade.

So don't worry about it.

That part is pretty faint.

Then it comes over here and it gets more powerful.

I'm thinning it down a little bit so it's not too abrupt.

That's more powerful.

Bring it over here.

Something else is gonna be happening.

So I'm not gonna worry about this being accurate.

This is going to be a background color.

Good, that's set up.

I was hoping that the green wouldn't still just flat run into it, and it might.

I think that's gonna work.

Okay, I picked up some green.

Does it matter?

No, it's in there.

It's in there.

Right in there.

Not bad at all.

That's gonna pick up quite a bit 'cause I did touch a wet spot.

Okay, what about what's coming up next?

This piece is important.

What's under it?

There are ups and downs and lights and darks, and I don't know what they are.

I can't really see what they are.

I can see they have some color.

Mm.

Let's see if this is possible at this distance.

Let's see if this is possible.

I think it might be.

And I want another one.

Here's another one.

Make that one a little different.

Little different.

That just might work.

Come back up here.

I've left them alone.

(geese honking) Don't you just wanna look, see what they're yammering about?

In a minute, can do that.

Oh, there's some bright whites over there.

That's gonna pull attention over there.

Bright whites.

Okay, bring that down to there.

Okay, now what's over in here?

And does it matter?

12 minutes.

Ah, it's gonna have a little bit more, more oomph than that.

They're bushes and they're probably gonna show.

So I'm trying to pick up some yellow to mix with the green.

It's gonna be in there.

That might be too darn much.

That'll change it.

Okay, back to this tree.

Is this all dry?

I'm looking in the sun for a minute.

Yeah, it's dry, it's gonna hold.

So now I want a real pine tree green.

Put a little red with it.

Go for the dark side.

In this case it's gonna hold against that.

Be aware that it is not gonna mix.

That doesn't matter.

I want it to be plenty dark on the side that's shady.

That was that little round willow.

It can be lighter on the other side, but it also has to be a richer color.

It's on the sun side.

Sunshine.

Sunshine side.

A little bit hard to get that out.

That tree is, I think, in there.

There is a tree in here that loops across.

How thin is it?

How light is it?

It's pretty darn light.

Pretty light.

And it comes up into here.

Then I'm gonna wanna be able to put branches in it.

The little willow tree.

Some cerulean.

Got a bug bite.

By the way, you get to where you really don't pay attention to insects.

You might wind up with a few bites when you get home.

That'll do.

And it's gonna be lighter under it.

It's got weird colors.

It's got some green.

Not much.

Just a bit.

That should work in.

It's got some lavender.

And if I don't like this, I'll lift it off.

Good enough.

Now, there's something over here.

Is this dry yet?

The upper part is, I don't know about the lower.

That's not.

It's an important area.

I need the stuff that's over there.

Just stuff.

Just things.

Don't know what they are.

I want a darker tree trunk.

Eh, bad color.

That would've been brown.

You're not gonna see brown at that distance.

You're gonna see something lighter.

Then down to the grass.

Would there be flowers in there?

Why not?

That did it.

Bit of flowers.

Come down in here and get the grass.

Let it flow.

Want more color.

As it comes closer to you, it's gonna get to be a richer color.

Let's see if I can get some.

This is Viridian green, it's a cold green.

That's perfect for back there.

Colors are colder.

Closer to blue in the distance.

Notice that I'm not using much mixing area.

Keep using it over and over and over.

A little bit of this back here.

Knock that back a touch.

Bring that orange up to the background.

Seven minutes.

Right up to that tree.

Bring some of it up in here.

Bring it over in there.

Same kind of yellow.

It's in there.

Come down in here with some shadows.

(laughs) Come out here.

I always like to say, is this gonna work?

Is it gonna work?

Is there a chance that it might just really work?

Really?

There's a chance.

I gotta hold it somewhere.

Shadow.

Oh, nice.

Heavy duty shadow.

I like that.

What's going on at the back, back there?

There are roofs on buildings.

Can I get some clean cerulean?

It's a blue.

It's gonna be offset by the yellow.

Here's that dry.

It's gotta be dry.

It's dry and I've also gotta hold it level at this point.

There's one person.

There's another one.

They're in there.

They'll get pants in a minute.

Okay, I wanted some branches on that tree.

Don't want him to be too obnoxious.

There's that one.

That's good enough.

How about over in here?

There's a bunch of them.

This is the stuff that's left in the pen, in the brush.

Little bit of one over there, some over there.

And you may or may not remember that I said I was gonna do something a bit more dramatic toward the end.

And I do hope it works, 'cause it's a heck of a lot of fun.

But it's gotta work.

Okay, what's back here?

Some lights and darks.

Got people back in there.

I want some darker darks in there.

Doesn't matter what they are.

Because I want you seeing that we've got people in here.

Potential of a bit more color back there.

Over there.

Perhaps a few bushes that are darker.

But I don't care what they look like.

Bring that guy's color up a tad here.

There.

Oh, don't leave a white like that.

This is too ungodly green.

This will kill it, I bet you.

Yep.

Why wouldn't there be shadow down here?

Why not?

Bring this tree up higher.

'Cause it's unbalanced.

Maybe a little yellower.

And it would be loose against the sky.

And a little bit darker inside.

That side of it.

And I'd say for what's out there, this isn't great, but hey, I like to say sometimes, you get the bear and sometimes the bear gets you.

How about a little bit of yellow right there?

Just right there.

As if there were a patch of it right there.

Get rid of that.

So it's pretty well done.

It does look like there's a possibility of people back there.

And I'm gonna leave you guessing whether that's a building or a tree because it's flat.

And if I leave you guessing it's something, there's mystery in it.

You don't have to spell it out like a camera would.

If you make the viewer figure out what's in there, they're gonna get more involved.

Those are gonna involve them too.

That's just enough structure to make it look, oh, you know, I can't resist this.

I just can't resist this.

This is too much.

Just couldn't resist that 'cause it looks so close.

Is it?

You don't know.

So that's it.

That pretty much, that's as much fooling around as I wanna do.

I'm okay with it.

But that does look a tad like water.

And then you see the results, and if the results are fun, go on with it.

So, happy sketching, enjoy.

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