Normally I don’t bomb you with blogs. As we’re working together on funding the final PBS Season, you need to know how it’s going. I’m finding it just as hard to write frequently as you are finding it hard to read often! I hope the included tips make it more interesting. Here’s the update. We are at $10,750 (Thank you enormously!!!!), out of $30K so that leaves only $19,250 to go. Wow! And I have sent out 170 sketches to be fixed. Where else will you get your instructor’s work to fix? One person sent back a ‘before and after’. I’d love to see more of your results. And where is Season Four in progression? I just spent three days reviewing all 13 Episodes over and over, looking for technical accidents. This Season has lessons I never planned to film. Many of you liked the striped outfits I use to pose for live workshops. They are included! Man, that outfit looks horrible on me! I can see why you laugh your way through that exercise. Zach, the engineer at WGVU, is amazingly good. Only one tiny flub and he’ll fix it. Pretty good for merging 4 cameras and one dialog, plus editing the two Episodes filmed outdoors in an uncontrolled setting in Tucson. Here’s the ‘ask’: You DONATE to WGVU $100 and I mail you five of my ‘Fix ‘Em’ sketches to correct plus email the link to the excellent video showing you how to fix color, contrast and focal point. If you send $200 or more, you receive an additional five of my sketches. I planned to fix these myself and some are really quite good. Click the link below to donate or call if you don’t want to donate via computer: 661-331-6680. WGVU is a 501-c-3 and you will receive a receipt for tax purposes. Here’s your tip for this blog. When your sketches have been working well and then they become consistently worse, invest in a new brush. It’s not you! The brushes wear down and you don’t notice until you ‘can’t sketch’. If you are planning to sketch a lot, you might keep a new brush zipped in with your credit cards. It’s quite rewarding to suddenly sketch much better! The example with the sky has no control on the buildings and truck. The stream has great control and I’m happy with it. (I did correct the color in the background rocks, adding blue to drop them back. See it work?) Happy Sketching! |
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