A Brush With Art.pdf

Drawing BoatsStudents who don't like painting boats are usuallypeople who can't draw them either! This makessense because, if you aren't confident aboutdrawing them on your paper, how can youpossibly start to paint them accurately?The answer is to get out and about with yoursketch pad and have a go! It is only by practisingthat you will get over this barrier and really startto enjoy painting river and harbour scenes. Tostart with, only pick out one or two boats to drawat a time. Treat each boat as just another subject.Measure it to get the proportions right as yousketch it (see Programme 5) and don't forget tolook at it with your eyes screwed up to see all thetonal values: light against dark, dark against light.If you simphfy boats in this way as you look atthem (see my examples on these two pages), youwill soon start to gain confidence. But it's no goodtrying it just once or twice - you must practiseand practise! Then, once you are confident aboutdrawing boats, you can start painting them in verysimple washes.V —