Urban Sketchers } Sketching RichmondMaking Expressive Pen and Ink Drawings on Location
Space is limited to 15 students!
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Learning Goals:
This workshop is accompanying Architecture Week at the Virginia Center for Architecture, and the ongoing exhibition Urban Sketchers: Sketch Virginia.
The primary goal for the workshop is to loosen up participant’s pen drawing, and encourage working rapidly, in a more relaxed style. Ultimately leading toward new skills with reportage and sketching from life.
We will be working primarily in black and white. Color materials are optional, at your preference.
Exercises focus on the very basics of urban sketching. That is, black and white pen-and-ink line, accented with brush pen.
It will be a unique opportunity to practice the fundamentals of urban sketching with a diverse group of artists.
The primary goal for the workshop is to loosen up participant’s pen drawing, and encourage working rapidly, in a more relaxed style. Ultimately leading toward new skills with reportage and sketching from life.
We will be working primarily in black and white. Color materials are optional, at your preference.
Exercises focus on the very basics of urban sketching. That is, black and white pen-and-ink line, accented with brush pen.
It will be a unique opportunity to practice the fundamentals of urban sketching with a diverse group of artists.
Note: Participants will qualify for AIA Learning Units.
[Materials List Available Here]
Workshop Schedule:
Each day we will begin at the VCA and walk out from there.Virginia Center for Architecture
2501 Monument Ave
Richmond, VA 23220
United States
Friday April 17
10 am - 1 pm: Plan for Spontaneity : Scribble and Refine- Exercise: Scribble and Refine: Architectural Portrait
- Exercise: Scribble and Refine: Street View
- Exercise: Using the Viewfinder, Speed Scribbles
- Exercise: Final Sketch
Lunch Break: (bag lunch, or find a nearby location on your own)
2 - 5 pm: Direct to Ink : No Mistakes, No Regrets
- Exercise: Single Line Drawing
- Exercise: Cinq-Ã -Sept Drawing
- Exercise: Silhouette Shapes in Tone
- Exercise: Final Sketch: Line + Tone
Saturday April 18
10 am - 1 pm: Picture Making: Composition Templates- Exercise: Iteration on a Theme: Finding Pictures
- Exercise: Finished Sketch or Composition Walking Tour
- Exercise: Leading the Eye: Use of Darks
- Exercise: The Big Finish: Panorama Sketching
Lunch Break: (bag lunch, or find a nearby location on your own)
2 - 5 pm: Public Sketchcrawl : Route TBA
Workshop Registration and Cost:
About the Instructor:
Since 2009, Montreal based artist Marc Taro Holmes has been a correspondent and travelling workshop instructor for the international reportage artist collective urbansketchers.org.
He is the author of the how-to art book The Urban Sketcher: Techniques for Seeing and Drawing on Location as well as the online class Sketching People in Motion.
Marc’s website citizensketcher.com is an ever growing journal of stories and images from his travels. Stop by and subscribe for free email updates from wherever Marc is today. You’ll find drawings and paintings done on location, reportage sketching of live events, step-by-step notes on technique, reviews of art materials, and news about the wide world of location sketching.