Title : Pushing How to Look - PYSB Sevilla 2018
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Pushing How to Look - PYSB Sevilla 2018
Pushing How to Look in Sevilla: Let’s look to the day to day.
Seville was founded as the Roman city of Hispalis. It later became known as Ishbiliya (Arabic: إشبيلية)[2] after the Muslim conquest in 712. During the Muslim rule in Spain, Seville came under the jurisdiction of the Caliphate of Córdoba before becoming the independent Taifa of Seville; later it was ruled by the Muslim Almoravids and the Almohads until finally being incorporated into the Christian Kingdom of Castile under Ferdinand III in 1248.[3] After the discovery of the Americas, Seville became one of the economic centres of the Spanish Empire as its port monopolised the trans-oceanic trade and the Casa de Contratación (House of Trade) wielded its power, opening a Golden Age of arts and literature. In 1519, Ferdinand Magellan departed from Seville for the first circumnavigation of the Earth. Coinciding with the Baroque period of European history, the 17th century in Seville represented the most brilliant flowering of the city's culture; then began a gradual economic and demographic decline as silting in the Guadalquivir forced the trade monopoly to relocate to the nearby port of Cádiz.
The 20th century in Seville saw the tribulations of the Spanish Civil War, decisive cultural milestones such as the Ibero-American Exposition of 1929 and Expo '92, and the city's election as the capital of the Autonomous Community of Andalusia.
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FROM HEAVEN TO EARTH - LIFE IN FULL COLOUR (Isabel Carmona)
In this session will look at the space around us, the streets, the squares and the activities, the people and we will capture on the page that sense of space of being present here and now, between the sky and the ground, in Sevilla.
We will look up to the sky to see the contours and outlines of the buildings, we'll feel their weight and proportions and rhythms to make them present on the ground. We will learn to feel the space, what is free space and was is built up or occupied and transfer this to our drawings.
But space is not empty but occupied with people and activities of interest to telling the story of a place. Urban sketching is about telling stories. We will work in colour to draw both setting and story, drawing out what interests us. We will work in watercolour and other colour media to show the story in full colour.
Starting with quick watercolour washes, we will play at highlighting the setting or the action within the overall picture. We will start with colour exercises to set the street scenes where we can overlay people’s activities as they happen.
Then we will reverse our approach, capturing in colour people’s action on the street, and later outlining the setting/the scene of what they do.
From there we can progress to more complex scenes of activity or busy architecture.
The colour will serve as the background to the drawing scene. Line work and detail can then be selective to help us focus where we want the sketch attention to go.
Colour blocks will help us break the scene into manageable areas and to avoid worrying later on about spoiling a neatly drawn picture. 
Colour blocks will help us break the scene into manageable areas and to avoid worrying later on about spoiling a neatly drawn picture. WHAT IS ESSENTIAL? (Inma Serrano)
“I look around me.
I see trees, cars, buildings, people passing by...
I sit down seduced by the idea of sketching everything that surrounds me. I want to try to explain where I am, but also how I feel in this place. I would love to be able to reproduce in my sketchbook all the life around and the joy I experience now.
I stop just to look and analyze but I find really difficult to capture the ESSENCE of this place. There are too many things here. I feel confused, incapable... There are even things I do not know how to draw: people moving all the time, the perspective, the light and shadows...
Wheredo I start? What do I have to draw or leave out? How could I manage all of this stuff inthis little sketchbook? How do I have to structure the page?
The fear of the blank paper is here again.
I don´t want to lose the ESSENTIAL information...
ESSENTIAL”
What is really ESSENTIAL?...
"It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; WHAT IS ESSENTIAL IS INVISIBLE TO THE EYE. Only children know what they are looking for."
(A. de Saint Exupery)
Less is more…
When I think of my own sketchbook, the sketches I do like the most, I always find three key things in them to be able to say: “This is a bold piece of work”:
- The sketch describes the place where it was made
- I managed to convey my own personal look of this place
- The people who see it can understand my way of looking and give their own opinion.
I prefer to "half-finish" my sketches. That is: to elaborate in detail some parts and to “spoil” others with lines and scribbles . I like it when chance changes the drawing process and chaos is present.
But I also like to leave place to guess and define what is not drawn in a precise and meticulous way. For that reason, there will always be parts of the drawing that are not well defined, empty places, abstract shapes.
My feelings are sometimes captured in words, rhythms, unreal colours.
I love to join reality and imagination as a part of the game of guessing, not only where I am but also how I feel or what do I have to say about that place.
In my sessions, the focus will be on:
- Studying open and closed lines and how can each one contribute to our sketch.
- Practising with colour and lines as elements that can set the view.
- Understanding internal rhythms, force and dominant lines in the shapes.
- Look for the synthesis and understanding how "less is more"
- Experiencing the colour balance.
- Light and shadows and blocks of colour for composing.
- Learning to stop before it´s too late.
- Use all these tools to develop our own style of drawing and expression.
STORIES FROM YOU, STORIES FROM HERE (Swasky)
“The best way to capture moments is to pay attention.”
What captures your attention
Always, when we arrive to a place we first filter all the information through ourselves. Visual information is right in front of us: colours and shapes. Nevertheless a place is not only this it is also felt through sounds, smells and sensations that we perceive a place.
All along the first session we are going to experiment the place taking our feelings as a starting point and also being conscious of the whole experience from us.
What we know
Second session is devoted to the ideas, to the information, that part which gives an extra point of view to he places, then we qualify and make a combination with feelings and information, always through our “eyes”.
In my sessions, the focus will be on:
- Working on the idea of storytelling following the classic rules as a starting point.
- Training on developing threadlines, paying attention to details and those insignificant matters.
- Bringing together our look and others.
- Gaining knowledge from the experience on site and with later information.
- Sorting out the whole information changes our approach and viewer’s/reader’s.
- Storytelling and development of ideas.
Overall Learning goals
- Pushing participants out of their comfort zone, at their own level. From beginners starting to sketch to more confident participants, we aim to teach you something new and push you outside your boundaries, helping you experiment.
- Looking and finding stories of everyday life
- Losing the fear to draw people, drawing people on the go
- Gain confidence drawing buildings, feeling the space in the city
- Understanding what is essential for you when starting to draw a new place
- Improving watercolour and drawing technique from basic principles.
- Using and trying different approaches - line drawing with pens and pencils,watercolours and colour in different media.
- Experiment with different techniques and ways of approaching a live sketch situation, helping you find your own self expression.
Workshop Schedule:
Course runs from 11 to 13 October 2018 with a welcome meeting on Wed 10 evening and a sketch meet with the local urban sketchers on the Sun 14
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WED 10 Oct
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8 pm
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Welcome at our base Tramallol
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THURSDAY 11 Oct
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9,30am -10,30am
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Welcome and get together at our base Tramallol
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10,30am-1,30pm
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Morning workshops with Swasky, Inma and Isabel
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1,30pm - 3,30pm
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Lunch
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3.30pm - 6.30pm
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Afternoon workshops with Swasky, Inma and Isabel
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7.00pm
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Evening all groups meep up and share
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FRIDAY 12 Oct
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9,30am -10,30am
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Morning get together at our base Tramallol. Pin up exhibition from previous day’s work
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10,30am-1,30pm
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Morning workshops with Swasky, Inma and Isabel
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1,30pm - 3,30pm
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Lunch
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3.30pm - 6.30pm
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Afternoon workshops with Swasky, Inma and Isabel
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7.00pm
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Evening all groups meep up and share
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SAT 13 Oct
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9,30am -10,30am
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Morning get together at our base Tramallol. Pin up exhibition from previous day’s work
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10,30am-1,30pm
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Morning workshops with Swasky, Inma and Isabel
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1,30pm - 3,30pm
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Lunch
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3.30pm - 6.30pm
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Afternoon workshops with Swasky, Inma and Isabel
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7.00pm
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Evening all groups meep up and share
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SUN 14 OCt
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10,00 am to 11,00 am
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Meet at Tramallol from 10 for coffee and open exhibition
Sketch meeting - open to all
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11,00 am to 1,00 am
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Sketchcrawl with Usk Sevilla local group
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Workshop map:
Participants
30 attendees maximum, 18 minimum. Any level of drawing experience is welcome
Travel and accommodation
You need to arrange your own accommodation. To help you decide area, see the map of hte workshop here. Suggested sites to look for a range of accommodation: booking.com or airbandb.com
Supplies
A list will be provided for participants - we will be working with water soluble media, ink, watercolours and pencils. Generally bring what you draw with normally.Registration fee
£ 250 - (£200 concessions - 20% discount for students or unwaged -with proof of concession status) or if paying in Euros 285 (225 euros for concessions).
To book:
e-mail Isabel: isabel@pushingyoursketchingboundaries.com for a registration form.
(Payment can be via internet bank transfer or paypal)
Cancellation policy: All fees are refundable if cancelled more than 6 weeks prior to commencement of course (up to 29 August 2018). Bank charges will be deducted for the refund in the case of an attendee cancellation. If cancelled after the 29 August up to to one week before the start of the course, a cancellation fee of £50 (60 Euros) will be retained. No refund will be possible one week before the course.In the event of too few registrants, all monies will be refunded.About the instructors
Isabel Carmona studied in UK where she practices as an architect and artist in Newbury, Berkshire. Her passion is watercolour, easy to carry around and sketch on the go and likes experimenting and mixing media to get interesting effects. Isabel started sketching in 1993 as part of her architecture training and continues to this day. She joined Urban Sketchers Spain in 2011 and USK London in 2014 where she runs the Facebook group and organises some of their Let's Draw events.
As an artist she is part of West Berkshire and North Hampshire Open Studios scheme and joined the Oxford Printmakers Cooperative in 2013.
As an artist she is part of West Berkshire and North Hampshire Open Studios scheme and joined the Oxford Printmakers Cooperative in 2013.
Inma Serrano
Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Seville, specializing in Painting (1996) and Design and Engraving (2000). For the past fifteen years she has been involved in the area of art education and has taught courses in Applied Creative Photography, Painting and Drawing. She has made presentations and workshops related to “travel diary” and “drawing in location” for the University and for other organisations and groups in and out of Spain. As a teacher, she has led sketching workshops for Urban Sketchers Symposium in Santo Domingo (2011), Barcelona (2012), Singapore (2015) and Porto (2018). She currently works at a Secondary School in Sevilla in which she teaches Visual Arts and Drawing. She has also worked as an assiduous illustrator in some journals. Inma’s artistic interest focuses mainly in the field of illustration and graphic diaries. She has been involved in some national and international exhibitions too.
Sketching in the streets is essential in her life because it allows she to zoom, in an ingenuous and almost childish way, the people and the things around.
Swasky is a Catalan-Spanish artist and art teacher from Barcelona. He holds degrees in Fine Arts and Audiovisual Communication from Barcelona universities and also attended Nottingham Trent University in England. A trained photographer and videographer, Swasky shifted his interest to drawing as a way to show the world after joining the Urban Sketchers online community. Swasky’s first book, “Voltant per Sants" ("Going around Sants"), was just published in January of 2012. Since then he has published 3 more books: Enjoy Gaudí (2013), Catalan Wine landscapes (2014) and Hola, Miró!!! (2017). He has led workshops and courses about urban sketching and storytelling in Barcelona and for Urban Sketchers Symposium in Santo Domingo (2011), Manchester (2016) and Chicago (2017). He currently is organizing and teaching workshop in Pushing your Sketchinig Boundaries with Isabel Carmona since 2014, where more than 200 sketchers have enjoyed the experience of drawing on site and share a 3 days of intense work.
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