Leisure Painter

Painting project

Learning objectives

  • View your subject in close-up
  • How to transfer the image from a photograph to a drawing then onto the canvas

You will need

  • Loew-Cornell transfer paper
  • Black or Saral wax-free transfer paper
  • Masking tape
  • Canvas or panel
  • Sketch paper
  • HB pencil
  • Kneaded eraser

I found this reference (above) on Pixabay when I was searching for a fun still life that had good colour and composition. I also wanted it to be fairly easy to complete, with a simple background and limited colour range. A big problem with images that have been edited in Photoshop is the lack

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