It was very exciting to be part of the Urban Sketchers Symposium in Singapore last month...still thinking daily about all that I saw and experienced, and especially the wonderful Singapore Urban Sketchers community!
It was an honor to present my workshop, "Light and Dark with a Punch of Color", and I'd like to offer a PDF of the workshop handout. Let me know if you find this helpful!
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More about the subject of the workshop in the previous post below...
Here are a few photos
from my workshop site
at the Singapore Art Museum...
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| My easel parked in front of "SAM"-- Singapore Art Museum, with a demo sketch |
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| Don Low sketching in front of SAM |
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| My charming helper, Grace Liau sketching |
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| Kee making a beautiful composition across from SAM |
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| Suma laying in a bold pattern of light and dark |
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| Don Low's thumbnail sketches |
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| Sketching in the shade of those lovely tropical trees |
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| Rob and Keesung sketching digitally-- I loved seeing the ideas working across different media! |
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| Gabi Campanario and Rob Sketcherman sketching and chatting at our lovely, shady site |
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| Murray Dewhurst, one of our official sketch-reporters at the site |
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| Some "first stage" sketches--finding patterns of light and dark in the landscape and composing them on the page... |
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| Some more "first stage" sketches, will have to find a better way to document the digital sketches! |
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| Some "final" results--with color added --using color intentionally to add emphasis, meaning or create a path |
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| Jason Das sketching some visitors nearby |
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| End of Workshop #3--we may have lost a few before this picture was taken, but I love seeing the results! |
Before and during the Symposium, I spent lots of time at my workshop site considering best views and approaches...
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| pencil sketches--a way to gradually mass the light and darks |
These were demo thumbnail sketches...using pencil to mass darks and light. As I did these, I considered 2 ways to compose: creating a small frame first helps you see the whole right away by working "outside in"...another approach is to start with what most interests you, and work from there--"inside out"...being mindful to balance areas of light and dark as you "grow" the sketch...
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| thumbnail views of SAM--laying in shapes with a brush pen makes you really commit to the lights and darks right away! |
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| more views around SAM--light and dark with color added for emphasis... |
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| Sketching here inside Dome, the Italian-style coffee bar in the museum, where the interior is elegantly
black and white--so were the patrons, and the photographer and bridal shoot just outside...
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