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UPDATE: If you are from out of town please contact us - usk.seattle@gmail.com - before making travel arrangements, especially airline reservations. We've had to make some last minute changes on some workshops.
LEARNING GOALS:
After taking this workshop students will be able to:
Paint figures using simple brush strokes
Focus on basic form to make impressions of people
Place people in context with believable proportions
Use values to distinguish people from context
Blend shapes to create groups, then add distinctions as desired
We will spend some time playing with watercolor to create water people for fun and practice. Then we will work on settings using the surroundings of our location as our focus.
The outcome will be more confidence and inclination to include people in their urban sketches. Students will be able to use different approaches in different sketching situations.
WORKSHOP PLAN:
Time
Topic
Comments
30 min
Introductions
Orientation and introduction. Instruction on strategies for composing whole sketch to include people. Instructor demos.
45 min
Fluid people
Using pencil, then watercolor, well practice drawing people as individuals, couples and groups. Well work as a group to play with the human form. Then well work individually to draw what we see. Regroup and questions.
60 min
People in context and free draw
Instructor demo on creating context. Start with tips for adding people into an urban sketch followed by free draw for students to put ideas into practice. We will work on elements of composition: foreground, middle ground, background, horizon line, simple perspective. Students work individually on context and composition with people.
60 min
Putting it all together
Regroup and questions. More tips on composition and context. Students use workshop ideas to create one or more sketches
15 min
Final throwdown; final tips; group photo
SUPPLY LIST:
Sketchbook: 5 x 7 or 8 x 10 containing mixed media paper
1 4B or 6B pencil
1 HB or mechanical pencil for pre-watercolor.
1 watercolor paint brush size 10 or larger
1 waterbrush
Water and water container; paper towels for dabbing brushes
Watercolor set
Jane Wingfield is a former website designer, artist and urban sketcher in Olympia. She got her start at the Chicago Art Institute Childrens Program and later studied art at the University of Washington, Western Washington State University and Evergreen State College working in oil painting and printmaking. She also studied sumi-e painting in Tokyo. She started teaching in 2017 by co-leading five weekly workshops, Sketch In the City: from studio artist to urban sketcher in five weeks, and followed that with a summer workshop, People in Places, in Olympia. Being an urban sketcher has given her the gumption to come out of the closet, pull out her sketchbook and start sketching just about anywhere.
www.olysketcher.com
Instagram: wingfjd
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/janedillonwingfield
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LocationPike Street Atrium (View)
Pike Street and Plke Place
Seattle, WA 98101
United States
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| Dog Friendly: No |
| Non-Smoking: Yes! |
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