Urban Travel Sketching: Capture a Favourite Place in Watercolor

Travelling and sketching are both wonderful things, so let's combine them!

In this class we will start by choosing a place to sketch which means something to you, and either go there, or do a bit of armchair travel via Google Street View.  We will take a walk around and do a bit of detective work to discover all the things which give it a real sense of place.  

We will sketch the building shapes, windows, chimneys, doors, and all the little details, then mix them up to make a finished painting in watercolor which gives a real flavor of the location.

This class is suitable for anyone, and needs no special equipment.

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If you would like to do more urban sketching on Street View and join in with other artists to virtually sketch the same location, take a look at Bill Guffey's excellent The Virtual Paintout.  He also has a lot of information there about copyright relating to using Street View.

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Music:

BossaBossa Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

• Travel Sketching Introduction
• Why sketch?
• Materials
• Choosing a Location
• Explore and Assess
• Start Sketching
• Composition
• Preparing to Paint
• Painting the first layers
• Painting the details
• Final Thoughts