11/17/2023 0 Comments Pencil easy waterfall drawingWe know it is water, we know it is fluid, transparent and reflective. The swan is so simple and I’m itching to draw it, but oh that water and reflections! How do we begin? The Analysis Aleksandra captured a beautiful swan swimming. This “understanding” what you are seeing, is the power of observation. Feel the textures, feel the wind on your face, or the spray of water at your feet. Do research…look at various reference photos at different angles to help you “understand” what you are looking at. You need to mentally envision walking through your scene. If you didn’t take the photograph -you have to take additional steps to ‘become connected” to a scene. You can’t see what is tucked behind an object. One of these short-comings is It flattens the view to 2-dimensions. We need to be aware of the limitations of using photographs. Not all of us have the opportunity to draw plein air (on location). To experience a landscape you must visually, mentally, emotionally and physically observe it. The more you see, the more you understand.” It is amazing what you see when you really start “looking”. I began to open my eyes and look around me. I got my first digital camera and started to take photos of everything. The Power of Observation.īefore I got brave enough to pick up my pencil in 2002, I spent a couple years just looking. That’s a pretty tall order, but I think we can accomplish it. The goal of this lesson is two fold – we are going to explore how to draw water, but more importantly we are going to review the process of observation, analysis and interpretation, the “tools” that will allow us to draw any subject matter, no matter how complex. But without the tools to understand how to draw water, we become overwhelmed as to the task of how we’re suppose to draw it!! All those ripples, waves, reflections….oh my!! So we put our favorite scenes away, hoping to be braver another day. Our water landscape possibilities are endless.
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