Thumbnails are useful for establishing value, linear or color compositions.
- A thumbnail sketch can be any size "rough" out of a painting idea. I often make them about 3" x 1.5", and sometimes even smaller. The one pictured here is full size, though.
- What's the use in being inhibited in a rough sketch? Try new color ideas, and make mistakes like a shore-bound sailor.
- Save all of these sketches. I will pull them out of a drawer even a year or two late and have an "ah ha!" moment.
- One commonly missed opportunity for experimentation is to take a "failed" painting and go back into it with even more experimentation, mistakes and trial efforts.
- My wife will sometimes filch these mini paintings and put them in Christmas ornament frames.
1 comment:
Ok, I'm sure your bored with me now, but this too is great!
Thanks for letting me peek!
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