Both Good Bones and Good Bones 2 workshops are full! Thanks to everyone who signed up so quickly! If you are interested in signing up for the waiting list, or if you would like to be notified about future workshops, please email Stephanie at stbower@comcast.net.
Thanks also to our awesome workshop sponsor, the makers of Pentalic and the Aqua Bee Super Deluxe, my two favorite sketchbooks! Each participant of the Good Bones workshops will receive both of these great sketchbooks!
A USk architectural perspective sketching workshop with award-winning
Seattle Urban Sketcher Stephanie Bower at Pike Place Market, Seattle, Washington USA
[Good Bones 1 filled in the first week, so a second workshop has been added! Please email stbower@comcast.net ASAP if you would like to reserve a spot!]
Workshop description:
Good Bones are essential to good sketches! In this 2+day workshop, we’ll cover how to set up the bones of a great architectural sketch, starting with a thorough understanding of architectural perspective and finishing up with an intro to watercolor tools and techniques.
Good Bones are essential to good sketches! In this 2+day workshop, we’ll cover how to set up the bones of a great architectural sketch, starting with a thorough understanding of architectural perspective and finishing up with an intro to watercolor tools and techniques.
On Sunday, we’ll join the Seattle Urban Sketchers for their monthly Sketchcrawl!
Learning goals:
This workshop will be a true instructional class, based on how I learned to draw in architecture school and how I have taught drawing for many years. The intent is to improve your own style of sketching with an understanding of accurate perspective, new tricks and tools.
Held at the iconic Pike Place Market--the heart of Seattle--we’ll work inside in the morning in the Elliott Bay meeting room, learning and sketching perspective basics. In the afternoon, we’ll transition to sketching perspective in the field, to capture the vibrant life and color of the market.
Good Bones | Day 1: Perspective
--learn how to construct an architectural perspective sketch, how to start, how to build
the sketch in layers
--learn how to really understand and use perspective accurately and effectively
--learn how to see proportions and relationships of spatial elements
Good Bones | Day 2: Perspective + Watercolor
--introduction to watercolor tools and techniques
--conquer the fear of using watercolor!
--learn how to use watercolor to enhance the sense of space in your sketches
Good Bones | Day 3: Seattle Urban Sketchers Sketchcrawl
--put your new knowledge into practice by joining the monthly Seattle USk sketching group
Workshop Instructor:
Honored with the 2013 & 2012 KRob for Best Travel Sketch and the 2013 Gabriel Prize fellowship for 3 months in France, STEPHANIE BOWER is a Seattle-based architectural illustrator, teacher, watercolorist, and traveling Urban Sketcher. Stephanie graduated in both Architecture and Interior Design and worked as a licensed Architect in New York City before gravitating to architectural illustration. She has taught architectural sketching for over 20 years, for a decade in NYC at Parsons, in Seattle at UW, and at Cornish College of the Arts where she currently teaches a field sketching course called Drawing Space. Stephanie recently qualified to be signature member of the Northwest Watercolor Society.
Workshop Schedule:
FRIDAY, MARCH 14 &
SATURDAY, MARCH 15
Morning INDOOR SKETCHING (winter in Seattle!)
8:30 arrive at the Elliott Bay Room in Pike Place Market,
coffee from the original Starbucks
9:00-12:30 instruction and sketching
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12:30-1:30 lunch break in The Market, sketching
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Afternoon OUTDOOR FIELD SKETCHING in the Market
1:30-2:30 sketch together as a group
2:30-4:00 sketch on your own or together with assistance from instructor
4:00-5:00 assemble for final crit and review
SUNDAY, MARCH 16
10:00-12:30 sketch with Seattle Urban Sketchers, location to be determined
12:30-1:00 meet Seattle sketchers and review sketches!
No charge for this day, of course, as sketching with Urban Sketchers is free
and open to all! We can arrange carpools to the location if necessary.
and open to all! We can arrange carpools to the location if necessary.
Supply list:
Instructor will email supply list to registered participants.
Workshop fee:
$160 for 2 days of instruction, no charge for the Seattle USk Sketchcrawl.
Payable in full by check to “Stephanie Bower” by February 1, 2014.
Cancellation policy:
In the unforeseen event a workshop is cancelled, all fees will be reimbursed.
Maximum number of participants:
15, any level of experience, but targeted to beginners and sketchers who want to improve their understanding and use of perspective.
Maximum number of participants:
15, any level of experience, but targeted to beginners and sketchers who want to improve their understanding and use of perspective.
Sample Sketches:
To see examples of Stephanie's work, go to www.stephaniebower.com for illustrations and links to sketches on flickr.