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Drawing from Nature

There is great value in looking directly at the natural world rather than reading about it in books or copying images of images. I am surprised how often students will choose to copy a photograph of a flower rather than look at the real flower! Nature provides us with endless complex, beautiful and challenging forms in the round. Begin to collect from the natural world and build a resource in your studio to utilize...


Tags: drawing, nature, en plein air, observation, composition, lesson plan, shading

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