Urban Sketching Bothell with Gabi Campanario
Friday, Saturday & Sunday
March 23, 24 & 25
Join the original urban sketcher, Seattle-area artist and journalist Gabi Campanario, for a weekend of learning and exploration around the revitalized downtown of Bothell, Washington.
“Urban Sketching Bothell” consists of a combination of indoor demonstrations at centrally located Cloud9 Art School and practical field sketching sessions at nearby scenic locales such as Bothell Landing, the historic Anderson School McMenamins Hotel and Bothell Country Village.
Lessons taught by Campanario will emphasize creating accurate depictions of urban spaces and human activity and infusing the artwork with a unique personal style. Topics will include choosing and framing subjects, identifying shapes, measuring dimensions and angles and other key steps to make lively sketches that capture a moment and a sense of place.
The workshop is designed for people who have some drawing experience but are not used to drawing from life -or on the fly- directly from observation. This intensive, weekend-long experience is ideal for drawing enthusiasts interested in documenting the world around them and professionals in the fields of design, illustration or architecture who want to refresh or expand their visual skills.
Bothell is a former logging and farming town located 15 miles northeast of Seattle near Lake Washington and Woodinville wine country.
Space is limited to a maximum of 12 participants.
Workshop schedule
Each day begins with a one-hour demo focused on technique: pencil and ink on Saturday and watercolor on Sunday. Following these indoor demos, Campanario will aid participants through additional demos and exercises out in the field. Saturday is dedicated to linework in the morning and values in the afternoon. Sunday is dedicated to color.
Friday
5-6 p.m. Check-in and welcome presentation: “The art of urban sketching.” (at Cloud 9)
6 p.m. Group dinner (Optional)
Saturday
9:30-10:30 a.m. Demo 1: Pencil and ink. Keys to mark making. (at Cloud 9)
10:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. Field sketching session 1 (McMenamins/Downtown business district)
Linework. This session is all about the foundation of the sketch. Using lines only, we will cover how to establish a focal point; how to get scale and proportions right by measuring dimensions and angles and transfering them to paper; and how to layer a scene into foreground, middleground and background. Thumbnailing before sketching will help us test different compositions before wasting time in weak approaches.
1:30-2 p.m. Break/Lunch
2-5 p.m. Field sketching session 2 (Location: Bothell Landing Park)
Values: How to see in monochrome. We will make value sketches in pencil, ink and watercolor to sharpen our perception of light and shadow in the urban landscape.
Sunday
9:30-10:30 a.m. Demo 2: Watercolor technique. (at Cloud 9)
10:30 a.m.-1:30p.m. Field sketching 3 (Downtown business district)
Color. We will work on adding color to sketches done in previous sessions, learning the application of wet on wet or wet on dry to create soft and hard edges in the desired spots.
1:30-2 p.m. Break/Lunch
2-4 p.m. Town Sketch-Walk (open to the public) at Bothell Country Village and exhibit at Cloud 9.
Learning goals
Train the eye to see shapes, value and color in outdoor scenes
Become comfortable sketching in public
Learn to draw standing up
Become an urban sketcher and start reaping the benefits of seeing the world in a new way
Registration: $395. For detailed information and to register please visit www.charlenecollinsfreeman.com/workshops/
About Gabi
Gabriel “Gabi” Campanario is an award winning illustrator, author and journalist best known for his storytelling work as the Seattle Sketcher at The Seattle Times , and as the founder of the global Urban Sketchers movement and nonprofit organization. A native of Barcelona, Campanario has a journalism degree from the University of Navarra in Pamplona, and has resided in the United States since 1998. His career as a newspaper artist spans more than two decades working in newsrooms on both sides of the Atlantic, including La Vanguardia (Barcelona), The Reno-Gazette Journal (Nevada), Diario de Noticias (Lisbon), The Desert Sun (Palm Springs, Calif.), USA TODAY and The Seattle Times. Campanario’s work as a sketch journalist has been recognized by The Society of Professional Journalists and The Society for Features Journalism, and was the subject of a five-month solo exhibit at Seattle’s Museum of History and Industry in 2014. You can see more of Gabi’s work on his website , Seattle Times author page , Facebook and Instagram . Bibliography: The Art of Urban Sketching: Drawing on Location around the World (Quarry Books, 2012); The Urban Sketching Handbook: Architecture and Cityscapes (Quarry Books, 2014); and The Urban Sketching Handbook: People and Motion (Quarry Books, 2014); Seattle Sketcher, An Illustrated Journal (Pediment Books, 2014).
