Inking the City with Andrew Scott

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.

Snapshot Storytelling

Capturing the Urban Landscape in High Contrast - with Andrew Scott. (Workshop 2)

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!

Sketching with pen and paper allows you to capture the urban landscape with very little equipment. There’s so much you can do with only a few tools.We’ll start in the Latrobe Art Space with a discussion of some perspective principles, use of contrast and shading, and line weights. These techniques will work with just about any pen but we’ll also discuss getting started with fountain pens, affordable fountain pen models, tips for using and maintaining them, and inks that work well for adding washes of tone or colour over line. Next we’ll move on to examining using a limited palette of tones, sometimes just high-contrast black and white, sometimes with a flat grey wash of ink, with arresting compositions to create dynamic and interesting sketches. Essentially this is chiaroscuro for sketching.Finally we’ll move outside to put these ideas into practice in a number of quick vignettes before returning to the Art Space to compare notes.

INKING THE CITY WORKSHOP with Andrew ScottObjectives‣ Creating appealing sketches with dynamic compositions and strong contrasts using a very limited tonal palette.‣ Framing, composition and perspective for impact‣ Media selectionWhat you’ll need‣ A fine black pen—fineliner, rollerball, biro, or fountain pens‣ A thicker black pen for—Artline 210 or a broad (B) or fude nib fountain pen‣ Paper, bound or loose leaf—hot-pressed watercolour paper or cartridge paper‣ Pencil and eraserOptional‣ Empty waterbrush that can be filled with diluted ink for shading.‣ Folding seatProvided‣ Summary booklet‣ Diluted grey ink to use in waterbrush

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