KEEPING AT IT CHALLENGE "Sky Pieces"

This is an idea I got from David Millard, "The Joy of Watercolor." He talks about the "sky piece," an interesting shape of the sky as it is outlined by buildings, hills, trees, or anything else. Sometimes he'll leave out a mountain, just to have a better sky piece with the building roofs. That's a liberating idea, not having to show everything.

He also refers to the "land mass" as everything that's not the sky piece. In the land mass you can have earth lines, earth pieces, sea pieces. I would add road pieces, field pieces, sidewalk and lawn pieces, etc.

He says, "Notice how the edge of one object forms the boundary of another--try to be aware of this as you draw." Below this post are a few samples of Millard's that show this whole boundary and pieces notion. Millard recommends, "Always be on the lookout for good shapes." Thinking in terms of pieces helps that.

Being aware and on the lookout, until "Sky Piece Saturday." Let's make that December 19th.

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