Article · Citizen Sketcher
Working with a Limited Color Palette at the 2014 Urban Sketchers Brazil Workshop
- Type
- Article
- Level
- Intermediate
- Price
- Free
- Published
- 2014
About this lesson
Explains how the author chose seven specific pigments to match Sao Paulo's local architecture colors before a workshop, and how narrowing the palette to those hues sped up mixing decisions and gave an entire sketchbook a unified look.
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