Drawing Made Easy: Observational Drawing and Watercolor Exercises for Everyone

Does sketching a realistic scene from observation make you nervous? Or worse, make you doubt your abilities as an artist? 

Relax! Join architect and artist, Barbara Luel as she throws away the boring perspective rules. In this class, you’ll learn new ways of perceiving the world around you to improve your observational drawing in a creative and intuitive way!

This class takes away the fear of making a bad drawing, takes away the fear of not having talent. It makes learning to sketch more fun without studying perspective rules. You may feel uncomfortable with your sketching skills or overwhelmed by the environment. You wonder -- do I really have the “gift” to draw well? Such pressure to perform may even take away the joy of sketching. This class put the pleasure back in observational sketching! 

This is a class for all skill levels, either total beginner, or experienced artists wanting to get a new point of view and some new techniques.

Inspired by Betty Edwards’ method “Drawing From the Right Side of the Brain”, Barbara Luel has developed urban sketching exercises to make drawing more accessible and to take away the fear of making a “bad” drawing. You’ll learn how to:

• Tap into your emotional and creative brain
• Understand the five perceptual skills of drawing
• Achieve lively lines and textures
• Bring life and volume to your drawing
• Add simple and rich watercolour washes

Let’s make our sketching more fluid, satisfying and joyful!

• Introduction
• Class & Project Overview
• Tools & Materials
• The Neuroscience Behind Drawing: Tricks to Tap into Your Right Brain
• Warm up Exercise: Lively Lines
• The Perception of Edges
• Space: Seeing What Lies Beside & Beyond
• Relationships: Seeing in Perspective & in Proportion
• Light & Shadow: Introducing Watercolor
• Seeing the Whole: Part I
• Seeing the Whole: Part II
• Conclusion
• Bonus Lesson! Let's Make a Second Painting