10x10 Fall Workshops in Seattle, Registration Sunday, June 24

We have amazing instructors here in Seattle. If you are in the neighborhood, please consider signing up for these courses. They also benefit Urban Sketchers.org.

Register the minute the registration opens on Sunday morning, June 24 at 9am Seattle time, as the workshops fill VERY quickly!!  I'll be teaching one on watercolor for beginners, 

"Watercolor 101".

10x10 Fall 2018 Workshops

Urban Sketchers Seattle – Fall 2018 10x10 Workshop Program

Seattle’s USk 10x10 workshop program was so overwhelmingly successful in the Spring that we have decided to continue it through the Fall! We are bringing back your favorite instructors from Spring – Steve Reddy, David Chamness, Stephanie Bower, Jane Wingfield, Andika Murandi, Gabi Campanario, Michele Cooper, Sue Heston and Anita Lehmann! In addition, Gail Wong, who taught in the 10x10 program last year, is returning with two sessions, and we have a new instructor, Eleanor Doughty!

The 10x10 workshop program is a worldwide initiative to offer educational workshops wherever sketchers live. Launched in celebration of Urban Sketchers’ 10th anniversary in 2017, the program brings a variety of courses on urban sketching techniques taught by talented local instructors in their home cities.

Registration begins Sunday, June 24, 2018, 9 a.m. The cost for each 3½-hour workshop is $60 plus processing fees. Registration will be processed by the event management website, Brown Paper Ticket. For workshop details and other information, please read the FAQ and download the program PDF.

Important: The email address you provide when you register through Brown Paper Ticket is our only means of communicating with you. We need your current email so that your instructor can contact you with information about where to meet, possible last-minute changes, or other updates. If you prefer that we use a different email address for communication purposes, please contact us at usk.seattle@gmail.com.

Program Goals

1. Improve your skills by drawing from life, on location.

2. Learn how to compose and design your sketch on the page.

3. Experience the advantages of group learning and sharing.

4. Become confident sketching on location so that you can continue sharing stories from your city, one drawing at a time.

Fall 2018 Workshop Date/Start Time	Workshop Title	Instructor	Location (Tentative)
1. Aug. 18, 10 a.m.	Sweeping Views	Gail Wong	Gas Works Park
2. Aug. 19, 10 a.m.	Sweeping Views	Gail Wong	Gas Works Park
3. Aug. 25, 10 a.m.	First Steps in Visual Journaling	Michele Cooper	Occidental Park
4. Aug. 25, 2:30 p.m.	Next Steps in Visual Journaling: Sketching a Montage	Michele Cooper	Occidental Park
5. Aug. 26, 10 a.m.	Watercolor 101	Stephanie Bower	Seattle Center Armory
6. Sept. 8, 10 a.m.	Pocket Sketchbook	Gabi Campanario	Hing Hay Park
7. Sept. 15, 10 a.m.	Sketching People from the Inside Out	Jane Wingfield	Pike Place Market
8. Sept. 16, 10 a.m.	People in Places	Jane Wingfield	Pike Place Market
9. Sept. 22, 10 a.m.	Confident Contours	Steve Reddy	Wallingford Center
10. Sept. 29, 10 a.m.	Drawing People from the Outside In	Sue Heston	Seattle Center Armory
11. Oct. 6, 10 a.m.	Sketch ‘n Chill: No-Stress Interior Sketching	Andika Murandi	Pioneer Square
12. Oct. 13, 10 a.m.	Freedom from Worry: Immerse Yourself & Let the Sketch Flow	David Chamness	Seattle Art Museum
13. Oct. 20, 10 a.m.	From Afar: Rendering Atmospheric Perspective in Watercolor	Eleanor Doughty	Seattle Center Armory
14. Oct. 27, 10 a.m.	A Media Exploration: Charcoal, Ink + Graphite	Anita Lehmann	Georgetown
15. Nov. 3, 10 a.m.	Start a Sketch with Simple Shapes	Sue Heston	Seattle Center Armory
16. Nov. 17, 10 a.m.	Pocket Sketchbook	Gabi Campanario	Hing Hay Park

...because good sketches start with Good Bones.

Today I'll post info on my Seattle Sketching Workshops called GOOD BONES.  I live and breathe perspective drawing and sketching nearly every day--working as an architectural illustrator for many years, teaching architectural sketching, painting in perspective, and especially during my Gabriel Prize study in Le Nôtre's use of perspective in the design of the Gardens at Vaux le Vicomte and Versailles...whew, I am always looking for points that vanish!!

My approach to teaching sketching is based on how I learned to sketch in architecture school at UT Austin.  I had two great teachers, Luis Diviñó and George Villalva.  Villalva's class was so good, that despite it's 8am start time and his strict teaching style, people would sign up for the class repeatedly, even for no credit.  They produced a generation of architects who can really draw well.

George used slides to teach basic perspective concepts, then transitioned us to sketching outside, constantly reinforcing the need to draw a good skeletal sketch in the first 90 seconds or so...good bones!  I use this method in my own architectural illustration work, in my own sketching, and I use this method to teach my students, at Parsons in New York City for 10 years, and now at Cornish College of the Arts in my Drawing Space field sketching class. It's an approach that really works...it is how I will teach the Good Bones workshop and also my DRAW CIVITA workshop in Italy July 2014 (5 spots are open!)

So if you are wanting to learn more about accurate perspective, or how to start and develop a sketch with good bones, you've come to the right place... thanks so much to Urban Sketchers for this support, especially to Gabi Campanario and Orling Dominguez, both amazing and generous-hearted.