Both trees and shrubs are made of light and dark areas, not just leaves. Take the time to observe. Where are the darks? What colors are they not? Kath demonstrates how to make them identifiable from one another.

Clouds are made of water vapor and are perfect for watercolor. Pen lines don't make clouds, but a 'borrow pit' does. Kath explains a major design element that can be manipulated.

Kath explains and demonstrates how to control the lights and darks of the water-soluble line, and when and how to add water to get the results you want.

Kath talks about what gouache is, how to use it and why it is difficult to use in the field with transparent watercolor when you want to work quickly.

Since words double the meaning, Kath shows how to incorporate them into sketches. Pocket Sketching was developed for travel journaling, and sketching can be immersive and help to remember the trip from your journal entries.

Using color, contrast and focal point, Kath talks about creating distance and importance, and editing things in and out as you THINK you see them.

Enjoy an extremely efficient way to draw with the 'mess' in the lid of your paint set, as John Singer Sargent used. You can change anything easily, all you need is a dirty box lid!