Title : Symposium, day 2: Workshops at breakfast, Demos for tea.
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Symposium, day 2: Workshops at breakfast, Demos for tea.
[By Paulo Mendes, Symposium Correspondent, in Porto]
Second day of Symposium, first day of workshops. This brave correspondent trio of yours had organized itself in order to attend most if not all of them along the next days. I was still unsure on my approach into what may be the Symposium's staple activity: What to sketch or write, which angle or point of view? Well, this should be like the act of sketching itself: If you practice you will figure. And so I joined one of the twenty seven groups that gathered at the Alfândega doorstep, identifiable by the signal holded by a volonteer that in all fairness called herself the Liberty Statue. It was the first of the three workshops I was allocated on this day: “Beyond the trees – How to include a wooded foreground in order to enrich a panoramic view”, by Charline Moreau.
As a bonus, this workshop came with a fitness session by climbing the steep streets towards the wonderful Virtudes promenade, whose trees provided the raw material. I'm a big fan of Charline's work, and couldn't find more relevant her vision on trees as a mean to frame a scene and create a composition. I tried myself to put something of that spirit on my sketch, made while the first exercise was on the run.
I had to move to my next workshop when Charline was making one of her stunning watercolors as a demo between the first and second exercises. I wish I could have seen more!
My next workshop was “Pocket Urban Sketching”, with Gabi Campanario. It was close to the Clérigos tower and the big “Porto.” blue lettering where tourists like to picture themselves, and Gabi was running across his students, enthusiastically giving tips and techniques in how to use a small sketchbook as a mean to sketch faster and more frequently, something that I see as the quintessence of the act of Urban Sketching itself. A boost on motivation!
Sketchbooks were reunited and Gabi made a demo on the use of watercolor. And for the second time I had to move away from a watercolor demo moment...
I was curious about the next workshop, “Graphite is the matter”, by Eduardo Bajzek, and his approach to sketching, through shapes instead of lines, working from outside-in. This is totally new for a line guy like me, who goes straight to ink, but his drawings speak by themselves and I could see by his student's motivation and results that new amazing ways to see were showing up.
Eduardo was moving from one student to other, offering advice on adding or removing elements in order to create focal points, enhance compositions, etc. Since graphite was the matter in this workshop, I couldn't resist to sketch him in one of those moments with a watercolor pencil I got the day before in the goodies bag.
After the final sketchbook reunion and comments, it was time to eat something and going back to Alfândega for the Skit Sketch session.
I had no idea what Skit Sketch could be, but it became clear after Amber's explanation: It's a presentation with 20 slides of 20 seconds each, in the Japanese PechaKucha style. There was a total of nine speakers, each one with his topic. The first three were Eduardo Bajzek (Sketch Tour Portugal: Fátima), Jonatan Alcina Segura (The sketch must go on) and José Pablo Ureña (Sketching the urban rivers).
They were followed by Laura Candón Cornejo (Our kids: Next generation of artists), Richard Alomar (100 sketchwalks – more or less) and Dilar Pereira (Timor Leste – Cadernos de Desenho)
Final three were Javier de Blas (Sketching daily life at the Sahraui refugee camps), Tomás Reis (Rock n'Roll Baroque) and Wiltfried (Usk Symposium behind the scenes).
My last sketches of the day were taken from the big demo outdoor event. I could manage to pick three of the best: How not to be inspired by watching these true Masters at work?
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