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Feb
A Beginner’s Guide to Brushwork, Lesson #17
We went a little "off grid" in our last lesson and enjoyed it immensely. So, this week, we took it even further and did not even draw out the design on grid paper. This week's brushwork lesson #17, from the book, Brushwork Elementary Brush-Forms by Marion Hudson, was a design on laburnum. It was basically four hanging branches of laburnum. There is no point to attempt to place each flower on the grid in a precise way, so we free-styled it and loved every minute of it! As we learned in Brushwork, Lesson #16, the laburnum is a small...