WORKSHOP SCHEDULES
Registration, 9:00-9:30
- David Rankin
Session 1, 10:00-12:00
Lunch and Practice, 12:00-1:00
- Amy Bogard, Quick Captures for Beginners
- Amy Bogard will be offering a class for the more novice sketch-artist. Her workshop will focus on quick captures, basic page layout and how to best use simple materials to create an interesting record of your time sketching. The best materials for this workshop are a small kit of watercolors, a watercolor sketchbook or similar quality paper suited for wet media, along with some basic mark making tools such as pens and pencils.
- Yuki Hall, Expressive Urban Sketching
In this workshop, students will learn how to avoid a rigid coloring-in style urban sketching and start sketching with expressive pen lines and loose watercolor wash to capture the essence of the scene in a more painterly fashion.
- Kay Bea Jones, Artists Have Perspective: Tools for Conveying Space
- This workshop will focus on principles of one- and two-point perspective to help us see and convey space in two dimensions, including architectural and landscape space, interiors, urban plazas, and forms occupying the landscape
- David Rankin, Sketching Better & Faster Using a 9B Woodless Graphite Pencil & Blender (indoors)
- This hands-on training session will focus on the ability to see and sketch a subject by identifying the major shapes and learning to develop a continuity of line. Using a 9B woodless graphite pencil and a blender, I will show you how to rapidly develop a sketch, one shape at a time, just like a puzzle. This is the technique I outlined in my book, Fast Sketching Techniques. We will work indoors, using reference images from my travels. With this skill you will become more effective, both outdoors and indoors. You’ll need a 9B Woodless Graphite Pencil, a blending tool (sometimes called a Stump) and a Sketchbook. David recommends the Canson Mixed Media Sketchbook, 7 x 10, 98 lb paper. It will handle both the 9B graphite and watercolor nicely.
- Jeff Suntala, Sketching People and Cars
- Don’t be intimidated! Tips to help you include people and cars in your sketches in scale and in perspective. Bring
loose paper or lots of space in your sketchbook to practice sketch so
as to improve and reinforce your understanding of the general principles
involved.
- Multi-page handouts will be provided explaining all principle points.
- Click here for a note from Jeff Suntala about supplies
- Terry Welker, Composition Techniques
- Participants will work directly in their own sketchbooks to learn how a series of small rapid sketches using a variety of perspective techniques, blocking and framing, can help simplify and improve the sketching process.
Lunch and Practice, 12:00-1:00
Attendees may eat as they please. The following restaurants are some of the restaurants within walking distance of the library: Java's Carnegie's Cafe (inside library) Cafe Illyria (214 East State Street), The Woodbury (215 East Town Street), 4th and State (152 East State Street), McDonald's (381 E. Main Street), Donato's (280 S. Grant Street).
Session 2, 1:00-3:00
- Amy Bogard, Quick Captures for Beginners
- This workshop for novice sketch-artists will focus on quick captures, basic page layout and how to best use simple materials to create an interesting record of your time sketching. The best materials for this workshop are a small kit of watercolors, a watercolor sketchbook or similar quality paper suited for wet media, along with some basic mark making tools such as pens and pencils.
- Yuki Hall, Expressive Urban Sketching
In this workshop, students will learn how to avoid a rigid coloring-in style urban sketching and start sketching with expressive pen lines and loose watercolor wash to capture the essence of the scene in a more painterly fashion.
- Kay Bea Jones, Artists Have Perspective: Tools for Conveying Space
- This workshop will focus on principles of one- and two-point perspective to help us see and convey space in two dimensions, including architectural and landscape space, interiors, urban plazas, and forms occupying the landscape
David Rankin, Light Studies (indoors)- This session will focus on using watercolor to enhance sketches. By focusing on the basic light structure and design of any subject and using only Paynes Gray watercolor and a 2B pencil in a precise painting recipe over your initial sketch you can create a dramatic image. You will need a sketchbook—I recommend Canson. In addition you need Payne’s Gray watercolor (professional grade), a 1” wash brush, and a couple small brushes.
- Jeff Suntala, Sketching People and Cars
- Don’t be intimidated! Tips to help you include people and cars in your sketches in scale and in perspective. Bring loose paper or lots of space in your sketchbook to practice sketch so as to improve and reinforce your understanding of the general principles involved. Multi-page handouts will be provided explaining all principle points.
- Click here for a note from Jeff Suntala about supplies
- Terry Welker, Composition Techniques
- Participants will work directly in their own sketchbooks to learn how a series of small rapid sketches using a variety of perspective techniques, blocking and framing, can help simplify and improve the sketching process.
Summit Wrap-up, 3:00
Continued Practice, 3:00-5:00
.jpg)
OPTIONAL OTHER EVENTS:
FRIDAY:
If you get in Friday, join your fellow Urban Sketchers at the Friday Art Walk.
Details TBA
SATURDAY:
Drink and Draw at Taft's Brewporium, Columbus
Casual gathering starting at 6:00PM