Urban Sketching Melaque

Let’s take a stroll through Melaque with a paintbrush, watercolor, and sketchbook!

But hey… I cant draw or paint! With some simple explanations, key observational skills, and step by step techniques you CAN and WILL develop these skills. So much of art is a set of developed SKILLS and not some inborn talent! Let’s develop some SKILLS!

This event is sponsored through CENAC

tickets are through Galeria Amiga : $1300 pesos

Painting outdoors can be overwhelming and an approach is needed to break the process into bite sized chunks. The act of producing a painting from a living, breathing, changing environment is much different than painting in the studio from a photo - harder - yet well worth the pursuit, and infinitely rewarding.

Students should leave the sessions with a knowledge of how to begin - and finish - a painting on location, within a limited amount of time, thus capturing the fleeting light and changing atmosphere. We will be using watercolor . All supplies are included in this class . (OR YOU CAN BRING YOUR OWN )

The supplies we use : watercolour paper mounted on a backboard or a small sketchbook, #12 round synthetic brush, pencil, extra fine liner sharpie, or any permanent marker, watercolour paints , kitchen sponge, container of water, and container to wash the brush in.

YOU NEED TO BRING

A SMALL portable stool if you wish to sit … there are often curbs and restaurant tables to use…. Pleas bring some water to drink and a small container to swish your brush in….and any ‘comfort’ items for ‘you’ like sunscreen, hats etc.

This workshop will focus on simplifying the scene before us into a workable design, using thumbnail sketches. Building the painting up with shapes, values and color, setting aside the tendency to get caught up in detail that is irrelevant to the success of the painting.