Urban Sketching - Pen with Watercolour Wash
Charlotte is a full time artist and art teacher based on the South Downs who runs a range of classes, workshops and Paint & Sip evenings in Hampshire, West Sussex and Surrey. She loves to inspire and nurture others to develop their artist skills in a positive and supportive environment. As well as teaching, Charolotte also creates and sells original art work, publishes stationery with her own designs and takes on a range of commission work. Here is a link to her website where you can find out a bit more about her as an artist and art teacher.
www.charlotteb-art.com/about-me
Urban sketching with the line and wash technique is used to capture the world around us. The use of line and wash is popular for many reasons. It is an efficient way of working allowing you to sketch when working en plein air but then later refer to a photographic reference for the colour wash. Its expressive nature allows you to develop a looser way of working. It is flexible, allowing you to either sketch first or paint first which will lead to a different feeling and effect. The use of a pen allows you to capture a scene quickly. The contrast between line and wash is complimentary: the line providing the structure and the paint, being applied loosely, provides the atmosphere. Aesthetically, line a wash creates a beautiful approach to sketching.
Information about the day :-
A sketch in line and wash (also sometimes referred to ‘pen and wash’ or ‘ink and wash’) means that both linework and watercolour are used together in the sketch or artwork. This can often involve a sketch using ink lines with splashes of watercolour accents.
During the workshop you will be taught how to use pens loosely to suit sketching. This will be achieved through a range of exercises where you will explore different mark making processes. You will also practice using watercolour wash to create colour accents.
There will be several examples of artwork created by Charlotte. She will guide you, step by step, using demonstrations, to recreate these small studies to help you to become familiar with the processes that she used. This will involve developing your understanding of perspective and how to simplify shapes and spaces to recreate images.
There will then be time to create your own loose line and watercolour urban sketches working from photographs supplied by Charlotte. This will involve making decisions about which details to include and where to focus on line and colour.
Materials to bring
watercolour paper,
watercolour paints and brushes,
a pencil & rubber,
black waterproof fine liner ideally a size 0.2.
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