Tips, Tricks & Techniques
Simple ideas for seeing your painting in different ways to access tone, composition and
everything in between; in other words trying to see the big picture
Here are a few tips:
- Step away from your painting; a long way -- as far as you can
- Small room - try using binoculars from the opposite end
- Look at it in a mirror
- Squint and look at it
- Squint and work on it
- Use clear red cellophane and hold over your painting to determine tonal value
- If you are using a colour photo - try copying it into black & white
- Turn the painting upside down
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