Pen & Wash Urban Sketching Course

Join a professional artist on an inspiring urban sketching adventure, where you’ll explore your local neighbourhood and capture its vibrant seasonal beauty, stunning cityscapes, and inviting public spaces through skillful sketching. Learn how to create beautifully composed drawings, then bring them to life with the rich tones and textures of watercolour wash.Throughout this hands-on course, you’ll refine your outdoor urban sketching techniques while experimenting with new methods to add depth, focus, and a sense of atmosphere to your compositions. You’ll discover how to convey the unique character of a place and express your personal response through your sketches.By the end of the course, you’ll have mastered this portable art form, making it easy to sketch while travelling or document your local surroundings with visual journaling. Whether you're on the go or in your neighbourhood, you’ll be ready to capture the world around you through your art.The session begins in the classroom, where you'll meet fellow participants before heading outdoors to draw in thoughtfully chosen locations that inspire creativity.The class will start and finish in the classroom, but much of the day will be spent outdoors.By the end of this urban sketching course, you should have:

• Refreshed your knowledge of basic rules of perspective in the built environment
• Built confidence in using washes by progressing through single, two-colour and limited palette washes
• Learned how to use colour washes to create a sense of depth and focus, and to capture local colour
• Learned the fundamentals of tonal value in the context of the built environment
• Used drawing exercises to explore different sketching styles
• Understood the importance of capturing a sense of time and place and the value of your personal response
• Learned to make better-informed decisions about equipment
• Learned tips for creating more confident line styles
• Explored approaches for producing journals.

What will be covered in this urban sketching course?

• Observation
• Simplify a complex scene
• Perspective and composition
• Proportion, volume, light and shade

Please see the 'attendees should bring' section of the course outline to ensure you have everything you need for the day.The course will go ahead in most weather, with undercover/indoor destinations used if it rains. We will only cancel if the weather is particularly inclement.

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