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LEARNING GOALS:
Become comfortable with basic tools and techniques to practice urban sketching.
Become familiar with the small format of the pocket sketchbook and learn how to draw while standing.
Learn to fit wide scenes onto the small pages of the sketchbook.
Learn basic layout principles to arrange drawings and writing on the pages.
Learn basic tips to use watercolor successfully.
Gain drawing confidence by working through a sketch from beginning to end without starting over.
WORKSHOP PLAN:
15 min: Introduction: The Four P's of pocket urban sketching (portability, productivity, privacy and pleasure). Overview of sketching tools (pocket sketchbook, pencils, pens and watercolors).
60 min: Up-close and personal: Demo and exercise
Participants learn how to examine and sketch subjects in their immediate field of vision and how to suggest the context necessary to evoke a sense of place. I demonstrate how to measure the chosen subjects and how to render them on the desired amount of space on the sketchbook page. Subjects may include elements of the urban landscape such as a street light, a vehicle, an interesting sign or an architectural detail.
60 min: Wide scene: Demo and exercise
Participants learn how to examine and sketch a complex scene such as wide cityscape. I demonstrate basic perspective concepts, how to break down the scene into foreground, middle ground and background, and how to make it all fit on a sketchbook spread.
45 min: Tone and color: Demo and exercise
Participants work on adding color to the sketches created during the previous exercises. Demo will show proper ways of mixing and applying watercolor to create soft and hard edges with the desired intensity and tonal value.
SUPPLY LIST:
Sketchbook: Workshop sponsor Stillman & Birn will provide a free pocket sketchbook for each participant, but everyone is welcome to bring their favorite type of pocket sketchbook (about 3 x 5 ).
Pen: A Bic ballpoint pen will do, but you can also bring Uniball Vision or Micro Pigma pens, which are also waterproof. Fountain pens are a good option too, but beware that not all inks are waterproof.
Pencil. A regular HB pencil will do, but you may also bring a pencil with a hard lead (i.e., 4H) and another with a soft lead (i.e., 3B)
Watercolor kit. If you need to get one, Winsor & Newton and Royal Talens Van Gogh pocket kits are a good start.
Waterbrushes (Niji or Pentel)
Water container
Rag or paper towel
Brushes. My favorite is an angle brush.
For reference, you may see my full urban sketching kit in this post: https://www.seattletimes.com/entertainment/visual-arts/heres-what-seattle-sketcher-carries-in-his-sketching-bag/
Instructor info: Gabriel Campanario is an illustrator, journalist and urban sketcher who never leaves home without a sketchbook in his pocket. A native of Spain, Campanario has called Seattle home since 2006, and his work appears regularly in the Seattle Times, where he works as a staff artist. As the founder of Urban Sketchers and author of The Art of Urban Sketching, Campanario's advocacy of on-location sketching has spearheaded a global movement of artists and drawing enthusiasts whose motto is showing the world, one drawing at a time.
Seattle Times author page: http://seattletimes.com/seattlesketcher
Facebook: http://facebook.com/seattlesketcher
Instagram: http://instagram.com/gabicampanario
Twitter: @seattlesketcher
Art & Illustration Website: http://www.estudiocampanario.com
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LocationHistoric Ship Wharf, Lake Union Park (View)
860 Terry Avenue N
Seattle, WA 98109
United States
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