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  • A Sketch is so important

    A Sketch is so important

    I am talking to myself when I say, “Sketches are so important”.
    It is so easy to just be lazy and start painting directly with a photo that is in front of you. We rarely succeed when shortcuts are taken, a photo needs to be interpreted, analysed and broken down. It needs to be simplified and elements moved or removed. So this is why doing a quick sketch beforehand is so important, we discover what should be done to achieve a good watercolour.
    In the perfect world I would prefer to sketch outdoors but that not possible here for a large part of the year, it’s minus degrees and windy here in Stockholm today.
    Next week I travel to Costa Brava in Spain for a week of sketching. More about that in an upcoming post.


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