http://www.alissaduke.com/2013/09/usk-barcelona-day-2-barry-jackson.html Barry Jackson
http://www.alissaduke.com/2013/09/urban-sketching-symposium-day-one-pm.html Marc Taro Holmes
http://www.alissaduke.com/2013/08/urban-sketching-symposium-day-one-am.html Luis Ruiz
and I have one more workshop to write up –
All of my Barcelona sketches are on flickr
This one is Sketching Urban Place: People, Space and Street (Workshop G) with Richard Alomar – It was very entertaining and very educational too !
Location: Plaça Reial
Workshop description
Urban spaces are designed by architects, landscape architects and engineers and, for the most part, used and experienced by non-designers. These manmade spaces have been conceived as “Places”. More than walls, streets and trees, they are outdoor rooms for people to move, talk, see and experience: They are the “Place” where life happens.
Sketches and sketchbooks can be used as a way to record these “Places”, beyond the traditional perspective cityscape or ornamental object drawing. Regardless of skill level (something that may take a while to develop) a sketcher can begin to experience “Place” and compose richer, more personally meaningful drawings by understanding the role of spatial structure, personal recollection and observation in the sketching process.
The workshop is structured around 3 activities:
- Connect: Walk around the space. Understand the patterns, forms and urban elements, including people, void space and structures.
- Collect: Record your impressions of the space informally through words, mental mapping, thumbnail sketching, sequence sketching or other “reportage” formats.
- Compose: Soak it all in. Talk it over with another sketcher. Start to sketch the space as a “Place”: A record of your experience of it. (This can be done in groups of 2 or 3 if needed).
- Learn the spatial components of urban space.
- Learn various sketching techniques to record initial impressions of “Place”.
- Understand how to frame and compose a sketch to reflect their individual impressions.
- Share with others their impressions and techniques.
- Strengthen the importance of individual expression in sketching
Learning goals
Student will:
By the end of our walk we had captured some spaces and views of our journey in a series of quick sketches. Amazing
The group were working on a session on interpreting La Rambla in words and sketches
The last part of the day . In the square – an urban space –
- The amount of information that you can capture in a sketch on a page in two minutes –
- There is always something to draw (I am a great believer in this )
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Thumbnails- love this idea but always forget to do it, I should prepare a page
this is great!