GOOD BONES SAN ANTONIO Texas | Perspective + Watercolor Sketching Workshop
April 5-6-7, 2019 |
Good sketches start with Good Bones! In this workshop, you’ll learn the simple steps to set up the foundations of a great architectural sketch in Perspective and Watercolor. How do you start a location sketch? Where is the darn Vanishing Point? Watercolor is too overwhelming!
Held in the amazing historic PEARL DISTRICT along the Riverwalk, this workshop offers 2 full days of instruction. The first day is devoted to learning the fundamentals of on-location perspective through demos and sketching on-site. Day two introduces basic watercolor mixing and techniques. Day 3 is a half day that puts it all together in an open sketch meet up!
GOOD BONES Day 1 | PERSPECTIVE | Friday, April 5 | 9am - 4pm* | Meet in front of Cure
· Learn perspective basics and a simple step-by-step process to construct an architectural perspective sketch, how to build the sketch in layers.
· Learn what to look for when sketching perspective on location—how to find your eye level and vanishing points to provide the good bones of any sketch.
· Learn how to measure proportions and relationships of spatial elements.
GOOD BONES Day 2 | WATERCOLOR | Saturday, April 6 | 9am - 4pm*
· Introduction to basic watercolor tools and techniques, using a simple palette of colors.
· Learn how to use watercolor to enhance the sense of architecture and space in your sketches.
· In the afternoon, put perspective and watercolor together. * One hour break for lunch.
GOOD BONES Day 3 | OPEN SKETCHCRAWL | Sunday, April 7 | 10am – 12:30pm Anyone can join us!
· An important half day to cement what you’ve learned, joined by other sketchers.
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GOOD BONES SAN ANTONIO is open to 15 participants with any level of experience, but it’s targeted to sketchers who want to improve their basic sketching and understanding of perspective and watercolor.
Workshop Registration opens SUNDAY, February 3, 2019 at 12noon central time.
To sign up, contact Stephanie by email at stbower@comcast.net The first 15 emails will be accepted—first come, first served. A waiting list will be created in case spots open up.
Workshop fee is $230.00 payable by check once you are notified via email of a confirmed spot in the workshop.
Cancellation
In the unforeseen event the workshop is cancelled, all fees will be reimbursed.
By March 1, all fees reimbursed; By March 14, 50% of fee reimbursed; After March 14, 10% of workshop fee reimbursed.
A materials supply list and additional information will be emailed to registered participants.
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Workshop Instructor, STEPHANIE BOWER is an award-winning Seattle USA- based architectural illustrator, teacher, author, watercolor painter, and traveling Urban Sketchers correspondent.
Stephanie’s sketching workshops bring together her professional career as an architect and architectural illustrator, her many years of teaching in colleges and universities in NYC and Seattle, and her love of traveling and sketching on location. She was the recipient of the 2013 Gabriel Prize fellowship in Paris and was twice awarded the AIA Dallas KRob delineation competition for Best Travel Sketch.
She is a blog correspondent for the Urban Sketchers www.urbansketchers.org and has taught at the international symposiums in Brazil, Singapore, Manchester UK, Chicago, Taiwan, and Amsterdam 2019, as well as workshops/demos in Australia, Oxford UK, Mumbai, Spain, and an annual workshop in Italy. You can also find her two online classes at www.Bluprint.com.
In addition, Stephanie is the author of the fourth book in the popular Urban Sketching Handbook series, Understanding Perspective and is working on another book due to be published in late 2019.
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This workshop is in a FABULOUS location! The Pearl District in San Antonio is one of the best urban spaces in the country. Beautiful renovated old buildings, farmer's market, cafes and shops, interesting architecture, all along the glorious San Antonio Riverwalk. I hope you can join me!!
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