Here’s a workshop I’ve been looking forward to teach for a long time. It’s a back-to-the-basics workshop, focused on pencil drawing techniques.
You see, in my early years as an urban sketcher, I didn’t want to waste time studying the fundamentals of drawing. I thought I knew better. Oh, how I wish I had mustered the courage to learn valuable lessons that have taken me too long to grasp on my own.
As I drew more often, my skills improved a great deal by practicing with simple tools, such as ballpoint pens and pencils of different grades. Even when I draw in pen and ink and watercolor, the lessons learned from pencil sketching always come in handy.
In this one-day workshop at Cole Art Studio in Edmonds, I’ll show you how pencil sketching practice will make you a well-rounded artist, no matter what medium you may currently be working on.
Drawing from still lifes at Cole Art Studio, I’ll demonstrate how to measure accurate proportions, how to translate light and shade into correct tonal values, and how to achieve multiple line variations, texture and effects in old-fashioned graphite. (If weather permits, we may also step outside the studio to make some studies from life.)
If you aim to capture the world around you in sketches that are as accurate as they are expressive, I think this workshop will set you in the right direction.