**Note Location: DK Art, Leesburg
Want to paint quicker and more accurately? Learn the secret to Shawn's success: methodical preparation and value as color blocks. Shawn always starts with a quick value sketch to determine composition (how to make a focal point and focal edge, Rule of Thirds and how to use it, simplify your view), then a quick color study to determine the palette and values. This enables her to lay out the pastels used for the painting in the right order and saves hours of time spent looking for the right color. She then methodically paints according to values and finishes the painting more quickly and accurately.
This method has won her awards at plein air events and quick draws across the country. She will demonstrate her method and a simple tool she uses for plein air and studio to simplify the landscape.
Website: www.shawndelljoyce.com
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