NEXT UP: Tuesday 24th February – Bournemouth, The Botanist
Join Dorset artist, Shaun Forward on his popular Urban Sketching Group Workshop. We will have a base venue within a specified coffee lounge, hotel or pub – and after initial introductions to each other, an overview of typical kit and techniques, we’ll start with a few warm up excercises and then go out into the town to be coached on Urban Sketching.
Limited to a maximum of 5 places, members of this friendly, small group will build upon their own individual sketching abilities. Suitable for relative beginners through to experienced sketching improvers, everyone will be coached at their own level and integrated into the group. See below for typical itinerary and what we aim to learn and discover on the workshop. Check out my 5-Star Google Reviews…
Timeframe: 10:00am – 4:00pm
Workshop fee: £75pp Includes basic materials, companion guidebook and constant coaching.
Images from a previous Workshops
Typical itinerary:
• Chatting about what you’d each like to achieve from today and establishing abilities.
• Overview of sketchbooks, materials, media, etc.
• Exploring contents of my basic sketching kit – see what you might need.
• An insight to different styles of sketching.
• Find out about the ‘Urban Sketchers’ global movement.
• Benefits & challenges of sketching from life (ie: not a copying a photo)
• Introduction to pen & ink line work, tone & shading, colour & perspective
• Getting started by practicing some techniques
• A few 10 minute observational warm up sketching challenges.
• Sketching around the town – the small details and the bigger picture.
• Brief working lunch break & appraisals
• More sketching either in town or at our base venue, progressing our new skills.
• Continual development coaching throughout the day.
• Final summary, sketches ‘throwdown’ group photos and advice on personal progression.
• Check out the action of previous Workshops on Instagram and Facebook.
Discover and learn…
DISCOVER:
• Various styles of sketching…
• Progressing to perfect your preferred style
• Explore numerous techniques
• A range of different media and mediums
• Create characterful mark-making
• Experiment with papers and surfaces
• Confidence to sketch in open spaces
• Urban, coastal and rural sketching
• Sketchbook Journaling/Diary
• Your local Urban Sketching Chapter
LEARN:
• Observational skills
• Linework and mark-making
• Spotting key details to include/exclude
• Perspective
• Scale
• Composition
• Tonal values
• Rendering tones and textures
• Loose and tight styles
• Representative and impressionist styles
Specific details for each workshop, regarding what to bring, parking, lunch etc, will be issued around 5 days before the event. Any specific questions beforehand will be answered upon request – but please see foot of page for an outline of more general information, which answers a number of frequently asked questions. Thank you.
See my Workshops in action on social media
Check out the action of previous Workshops on Instagram and Facebook.
Please also see my 5-Star Google Reviews…
Terms & conditions:
Please see these on the Policy page. All bookings are accepted on the basis that you have read, agreed and abide by these terms.
