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Sketching with Light, Shadow and Color in Seattle

When you look at a great sketch, what is it that really makes a strong impact?

What really makes a sketch a success is a strong composition--that's what grabs your eye and holds it!  In this weekend workshop, we'll practice dynamically composing a sketch--first by exploring "Notan", the harmony of light and dark, and then with the harmony of color.

What does Notan have to do with working in color?  Practice in making strong value choices helps you more instinctively create a bolder, richer range of values when you're working with color!  

Seeing and painting shadows helps us see shape and form, so, we'll work with monochrome watercolor studies to see the contrasts of light and shadow.  Next, we'll explore color temperature, as we work with warm and cool colors to bring harmony and contrast to your sketch.

Finally, we'll look at the color of atmosphere--the way pure white light is suffused with atmospheric color affects everything we see, even the color of shadows!

Saturday we'll meet in the morning at the lovely Seattle Japanese Garden in the Washington Park Arboretum, and after a break for lunch we'll continue sketching in the afternoon in the Arboretum.

Sunday morning we'll move to a more "urban" location, Seattle's Olympic Sculpture Park, where we'll conclude the workshop.  

Sunday afternoon we'll have a Sketch Crawl at Pike Place MarketFront that will be open to All!

Workshop schedule

Saturday

Composing with Light and Shadow

9:30am - 12:30pm  Seattle Japanese Garden

We'll start by making bold Notan sketches in black and white, using tools that can create a variety of bold lines and shapes--while looking for rhythm and patterns of light and dark.

We'll move on to monochrome studies of light and shadow.  This is a transition from a stark Notan approach to composing with a range of values with one color.

 






Lunch Break

The Harmony of Warm and Cool
1:30pm to 4:30pm  Washington Park Arboretum

We'll practice creating strong values of light and dark, while seeing the effects of warm and cool colors in your sketch:  depth, mood, harmony and/or contrast.  We'll start with painting shadows, and move from little two-color studies to composing a larger composition...and perhaps add a third color!

Sunday
The Color of Light
9:30am - 12:30pm  Olympic Sculpture Park

Today we'll look at the color of atmosphere. Traditionally, watercolor artists reserve the white of the paper to express the lightest light...but what about the color of light?  We'll reverse yesterday's process of starting with shadows, and start by looking at the color of light!

We'll explore some watercolor wash techniques that can be used to suggest atmospheric color.  We'll move on to start with a color line drawing, to layering warm and cool color shapes.

We'll continue to practice composing with warm and cool colors, creating light and shadow in your sketches.

In these exercises, we'll be using a limited palette.  When you reduce the number of colors in your sketch, you can see the effect that each color has!

Sunday Afternoon Sketch Crawl at Pike Place MarketFront--OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
2:30pm - 5pm

Let's wrap up the weekend with a Sketch Crawl at the new Pike Place MarketFront--we'll meet at Billie the Piggiebank!  (Drawing courtesy of Seattle Urban Sketcher Tina Koyama!)

In this workshop you will...

• Develop techniques to discover and develop an interesting visual story in your sketches
• Compose a dynamic range of light to dark with understanding the concept of "Notan"
• Choose what to leave out of a composition to create interest
• Explore harmony and dynamic contrast with color

Questions?  Contact virginiahein.usk@gmail.com

Registration:  $155 (includes admission to Seattle Japanese Garden)

Space is limited to 15 Attendees

Supply list will be emailed to attendees

About the instructor

Virginia Hein was born in Los Angeles, California, and the landscape of the city has always been her favorite subject.  She has worked as a concept designer for toys and entertainment, and as art director, illustrator and fine artist.  Currently she teaches drawing at Otis College of Art and Design in Los Angeles, and also teaches sketching workshops at Descanso Gardens and other locations.  She discovered Urban Sketchers in 2009, and has been a correspondent for the Urban Sketchers blog since then.  She has taught workshops at three international Urban Sketchers Symposiums--Barcelona, 2013, Singapore, 2015 and Chicago, 2017.  She has contributed her work to a number of books about location sketching, including "The Art of Urban Sketching" by Gabriel Campanario, and her sketches were included in Drawing magazine's Summer 2016 issue on artists' sketchbooks, "Sketchbook Insider".  Her book "5 Minute Sketching Landscape" was published by RotoVision in 2017.

IG @virginiahein

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