Kevin Scott Davis
Musician (Glowworm) turned draftsman/painter sharing sketchbooks, paintings, and writing about art. 🌱
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Note-Taking for Artists (opens the original)
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Breakthroughs and Convergences (opens the original)
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How To Do a Value Study (and Why You Should!) (opens the original)
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Hi everyone,Last month, I wrote a short article called “A Self-Teaching Watercolor Bootcamp Method For Accelerating Your Growth.” This is based on a set of simple concepts I often combine into one painting session: value studies, visual note-taking, contour drawing, and painting small.Each one of these tools has merit on their own, so I thought it might be fun to unpack them individually. This week, I’m exploring value studies.<a class="
Pocket Sketchbook Drawings (opens the original)
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I’ve been sharing some images from my pocket sketchbook around social media over the last couple weeks and the response has been “not too bad, not too bad” (as the venerable James B Jones from Love on the Spectrum would say). So this week I thought I might collect a few pages here to share with my readers. Enjoy! <a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!juHv!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.c
A Self-Teaching Watercolor Bootcamp Method for Accelerating Your Growth (opens the original)
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Hello Friends,This week I wanted to share with you the way I’ve been structuring my watercolor learning in the studio for daily practice. This is something that has really accelerated my growth in the last few months and I thought someone out there might find it useful. *Note that I’m talking about watercolor here specifically, but the approach can be applied to any art medium you want to learn. Also keep in mind that this is designed around structured study, rather than painting from life or si
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