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What Is A Thumbnail Sketch?
A thumbnail Sketch is a small and rough sketch outlining the elements in a proposed painting. Thumbnail sketches are a good way to work through an idea, or to try out different compositions. It is up to the artist to decide what medium to use; pencils, charcoal, colored pencils. Notes can be added on thoughts and ideas to carry out in the painting. The shape of the sketch is in proportion with the paper or canvas to be painted.
SUGGESTED READING
Edgar Payne - "Composition of Outdoor Painting"
John F. Carlson - "Carlson's Guide to Landscape Painting"
Hi Ulrike, lovely wee drawings I like each of them for different reasons. The composition in the top one is really nice with the low path and the way the eye drifts along the path to the main tree. The perspective in both is very nice and especially so in the second drawing. I am also reading Edgar and am setting out to paint some of those tiny composition ideas as thumbs!
ReplyDeleteUlrike, these are wonderful! The compositions are very interesting and the placements and contrasts of the values are beautiful. You and Caroline are inspiring me to get out Edgar again and start reading. I've been doing a lot of field sketching with pen and Ink. I'll post the last two I have done.
ReplyDeleteHey, great to read you here again O:-) Both have photos as basis (on the way from Aboyne to Ballater, Scotland O:-)) I've been reading Edgar very eagerly with highlighters. It's as if I'm learning something about composition for the first time O;-) Perhaps I've just forgotten everything else...haha.
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