What are we drawing? Urban Sketching with Peter Richards

We are Caylie Jeffery and Kerry Forsythe, story makers from Brisbane!Our business, Snapshot Storytelling helps  families and organisations to capture their memories, and preserve them in a creative and commemorative way.We live in the Paddington area and love to host and promote local events that help people connect, learn and have fun! Please get in touch if you'd like help with your local event.

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Selecting the view for Urban Sketching. Practical session on location in Paddington covering composition, perspective and scale.

Latrobe Art Space

Art in Paddington

The character-filled streets of Paddington provide artists with a vast array of subjects to draw, paint and photograph. Snapshot Storytelling loves nothing more than to showcase artists who find our workers cottages and historical buildings inspiring!

This workshop addresses how to use urban sketching to look at a place in different ways. This will help us to understand the attributes and qualities of the place, and help to select the preferred view and ‘story’ for an urban sketch.Objectives:
How to look at a place from different viewpoints.
Improve skill observing shapes in perspective
Coloured pencil and ink
Workshop Outline
There will be a short presentation and a demonstration and warm up exercises on perspective drawing of houses on steep slopes. We will then walk to Trammies Corner.
At Trammies’ Corner, we will prepare three small compositional studies of the scenes from a wide to more detailed views. We will then choose one view to develop further at a larger scale.

Materials:
A4 smooth sketch paper at least 150 GSM.
Colouring pencils of various colours
Black pens: Uniball Needle point or similar.
A chair, hat, sunscreen and water.

This workshop is part of the <a href="https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/paddington-urban-art-exhibition-tickets-363886302727" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Paddington Urban Art Exhibition</a>, on show at the Latrobe Artspace from 20 - 24 September 2022. The show displays work by Brisbane Urban Sketchers who have been creating sketches and paintings in the suburbs in and around Paddington in preparation. As an Urban Sketcher, Peter Richards has also contributed pieces to the show.The Paddington Urban Art Exhibition will also incorporate a glimpse into urban history, with photographs and stories curated by the local online history group <a href="https://www.paddingtonthenandnow.com.au" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Paddington Then and Now</a>.This exhibition is kindly supported by the Brisbane City Council, Cr. Peter Matic of Paddington Ward, Jonty Bush M.P., and Snapshot Storytelling.

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