This week we tackled on of the tings people find hardest to draw – hands. But I had a trick to help – tracing our hand on a plastic viewfinder with a grid, and then using that to transpose the tracing onto a drawing. The principle is the same as in past weeks – break down what you are drawing into the basic lines and shapes, so you brain sees the lines not the complicated object. Easier said than done of course, but it definitely helped.
Following on from this we explored the idea of negative space by using those same viewfinders to draw leaves, which we then painted with layered watercolours. And in the process a few other watercolour techniques were discovered.
