The Decorative Folk Artist October 2017 | Page 4

The easiest way to isolate an area of a picture is to cut a small square from the middle of a piece of paper and place the hole over the area you are trying to match. By doing that you only see the colour you are trying to match - unaffected by what your brain is seeing around it. Give it a try. Here, my airbrush tutor is using this method to match skin tones, so that he can reproduce them in his finished work. Weekend workshop with Claire The weekend of 28/29 October was the Members’ Roadshow at Claire’s studio in Crawley. Here’s what they got up to … Meet new member, Evelyne, with her ‘Cow’ picture Catherine puts the finishing touches to her ‘Cow’ Here is The Sunday Bunch with their Autumn Scenes. Hiding centre-stage is Claire.