Travel Sketching Essentials, April 21 at 2pm

Have you ever wondered what equipment Urban Sketchers use on their travels? Well, I have bought and tried it all, hauled it to 5 continents, and I’ve seen what inventive things other sketchers use too.

To help everyone get ready for their summer sketching, I’ll be sharing my best tips and tools, showing recent Italy/England/India sketches, and giving a quick demo at an open, free event at Daniel Smith in Seattle.  

TRAVEL SKETCHING ESSENTIALS

Saturday, April 21

2-4pm

Daniel Smith Art Store in Seattle

http://seattledanielsmithevents.blogspot.com/2018/02/free-demo-travel-sketching-essentials.html

And come early, as the world-renowned watercolor artist, Alvaro Castagnet, will be giving a watercolor painting demo the same day from 11am-12:30pm.

Hope to see everyone there!

Thanks to Laurel Holmes for this photo taken at steamy Angkor Wat in Cambodia.

Good Sketches start with Good Bones...

This past weekend was another 
Good Bones workshop at Seattle's iconic Pike Place Market.  The weather was so unusually warm and sunny that the market was just packed, and it was hard to find places to sketch.  But this group of intrepid sketchers was GREAT, and they weren't daunted!  If you can sketch in the crowds of Pike Place Market, you can sketch anywhere pretty fearlessly!

Friday covered basic perspective, Saturday was basic watercolor for sketchers, and Sunday, about half the folks showed up to join a large crowd of Seattle Urban Sketchers at the Starbuck's new Roastery in Capitol Hill.  

Thanks to Jane and Kate for setting up the USk date to allow the workshop folks to participate too...it was amazing to see everyone's sketches.

Thanks to Pentalic and Bee Papers for sponsoring this workshop by providing TWO wonderful sketchbooks for everyone!  They are the same sketchbooks that I love and use, thanks so much to Joe at Pentalic in nearby Oregon for these wonderful books!

Thanks so much to all those who participated in this past weekend's workshop.  I hope you'll continue to sketch, and I hope we'll see each other at future USk sketchcrawls!

March 20-22 is the next Good Bones workshop that will cover Advanced Perspective-- two+ point perspective, slopes, and more.  There are three open spots in that workshop, so please contact me if you are interested!

Good Bones coming soon...

Thank you, USk!!

Yesterday, I got word that my workshop proposal was accepted by Urban Sketchers!!  So to celebrate, I went to the location of the upcoming workshop, Pike Place Market.  Even in the cold winter (my fingers got numb), it was bustling with activity--it truly is the heart of Seattle.  

Information about the workshop, Good Bones, will be posted shortly.  Thanks again Orling and to Urban Sketchers~~