Enhancing Your Art with Backgrounds

For those of us who paint and draw our subjects close-up, backgrounds can sometimes elude us. Does this need a background? What do we put there?  Kate has some ideas on this subject and some really fun techniques for you to try.  She will discuss her process using a slide show of examples.  She will also demonstrate adding a background to an existing subject (in watercolor) and we will make textures together in various mediums that can be used in your backgrounds (and on your subjects as well).

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Extra examples, link:

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1e5B4S56lQY41Fo9bgs0WobrRP1pw5-qe?usp=sharing

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Handouts: link: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/12mCaSTjePgiGw0LY_JILtzIiXD7n9Gjq?usp=sharing

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Texture slideshow, link:

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1kwH0LAyfk8jGiiVzXbk-lVsXJZeSehOP?usp=sharing

 

Backgrounds slideshow, link:

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1CvHarrrXHi_2h-i-h9KEPATfwUbtEjiI?usp=sharing

 

Photos of the demo textures, link:

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1ByRMEpsnnCKNa36YUtPi2e8oCVAPXDug?usp=sharing

 

Painting a background video, link:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1gK9CcTmRvqeah2TSAGx7s0jpmVsb637f/view?usp=sharing

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