DRAWING
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The official zine of Urban Sketchers APRIL 2018
Drawing Attention Mandate Drawing Attention, the official monthly zine of the Urban Sketchers organization, communicates and promotes official USk workshops, symposiums, sketchcrawls, news and events; shares news about USk chapters; and educates readers about the practice of on-location sketching. Managing Editor: Brenda Murray Mailchimp layout: Jane Dillon Wingfield ISSUU layout: Charlie Mowery & Anne Taylor Writers: Mark Anderson; Brenda Murray; Meagan Burns; Pedro Loureiro; Ann Schwartzwald; Leslie Akchurin. Contributors: Parka; Maria Regina Tuazon; Amber Sausen. Front cover image: ‘USk Mallorca en el Bar Ca La Seu, Palma’ by Feliu Renom.
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PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE Who are we, the Urban Sketchers organisation? You may know that Urban Sketchers was founded by Gabi Campanario in 2007 in Seattle, Washington, USA. We are a nonprofit organization and volunteer driven! At the international organization level, the day to day operations of the USk are guided by the sevenmember Executive Board. The Executive Board is supported by an Advisory Board, made of up past board members who provide insight and continuity. Then there are dozens of volunteers on our many committees that include Symposium, Education, Communication, Editorial and Regional Chapters.At the chapter level, there are over 600 regional chapter administrators. These hardworking volunteers create
urban sketching opportunities for the participants of their local chapter and coordinate meetups and workshop with visiting urban sketchers from around the world. Every one of them is a volunteer and contributes time out of their busy lives to make this organization such a wonderful community! Getting to know you, our members, is part of the 2020 strategic vision. Who are all you fabulous sketchers? Where do you live? Where do you sketch? How do you sketch – are you a pen and ink person? A watercolorist? As we understand more about urban sketchers, we will strive to identify how Urban Sketchers can serve you better. Urban Sketchers is its members. You are Urban Sketchers. Happy sketching! Amber Sausen, USk President
Thank you, Drawing Attention readers, for your continued support. We invite you to send a Letter to the Editor of 200 words or less before the 15th of the month to the email address below. Please include your name and USk chapter. We reserve the right to edit, condense, or reject letters. Brenda Murray, USk Communications Director drawingattention@urbansketchers.org.
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4 USK NEWS & EVENTS 30 A PERFECT MEDIUM J A 12 FEATURED CHAPTER: USK MALLORCA 35 THE BEST WAY TO LEARN IS TO TEACH 14 FEATURED CHAPTER: USK BOSTON N J 18 KILL YOUR DARLINGS 43 REVIEW | ENDNOTES M M enny
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SYMPOSIUM NEWS FINALIZING WORKSHOP CHOICES
If you have purchased Workshop passes for the 9th Urban Sketchers International Symposium in Porto, don’t forget to select your workshops or make the final edits to your selections. The last day to change your programming choices in Eventbrite is June 18. After that, you will be able to access your information, but unable to make any changes to your programming choices. Mark the date and make your changes before it’s too late. CONGRATULATIONS TO USK PORTO 2018 CORRESPONDENTS!
Selecting from a wide range of applications from different corners of the sketching world wasn’t an easy task. Thanks to everyone who stepped forward to take on this challenge. We’re delighted to announce the winners: Marina Grechanik from Israel, Rita Sabler from USA and Paulo Mendes from Porto! For more information about our Symposium Correspondents, click HERE. Congratulations and we’re all looking forward to learning from your big USk Porto adventure through your daily sketches and stories at the Symposium! SYMPOSIUM SCHOLARSHIP WINNERS
The symposium scholarship winners have been announced! Click HERE for more information.
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RITA SABLER, USA
PAOLO MENDES, PORTO
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LIGHTS, CAMERA, ACTION ON KANSAS CITY USk Kansas City had their moment in the sun when they featured on Action News 41. Co-Founders Peggy Wilson (left) and Liz Vargas chatted to the host about top sketching spots and their group’s work. They even found time to dash off sketches of the cameraman and some other guests while they were there!
SKETCHING DUEL! Recently Portuguese sketchers Margarida Fleming and Pedro Loureiro went head to head in a sketching duel. Check it out! 5 DRAWING ATTENTION
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Urban Sketchers would not be the amazing organization it is without hundreds of amazing volunteers! As a USk volunteer you will meet new people and learn new skills. You will be part of an international team connected through technology, working remotely and cheering each other on. Volunteering with USk can be very rewarding! We are currently seeking volunteers to fill the following positions: ¡ Volunteer Fundraising Director ¡ Volunteer Sponsorship Administrator For more information click HERE.
CORRECTION Due to a technical glitch, the full Melanie Reim story did not get published in the March edition. Please click HERE to read the full story in Drawing Attention or HERE to scroll to page 26 to read the full story on the pdf version. Also, please click HERE to read the full Liz Steele story from the January edition. 6 DRAWING ATTENTION
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BRING A WORKSHOP TO YOUR CHAPTER
Urban Sketchers organizes workshops taught by our top instructors in collaboration with USk chapters around the world. If you would like to bring an official USk workshop to your chapter, start the conversation with our Education Director, Mรกrio Linhares at education@ urbansketchers.org.
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BEIJING & QINGDAO COLLABORATION In celebration of the Spring Festival, USk Beijing Admin Flora Wang invited sketchers from Qingdao to share their sketches on the USk Beijing blog. The result, a lovely collection of images that celebrate Chinese culture during this Year of the Dog.
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10X10 WORKSHOPS Do you want to start being an urban sketcher? Are you already a sketcher and want to improve your drawing skills? Don’t wait any longer. Join a 10x10 class in your city. Or take a train or a plane to a beautiful city and learn with an USk instructor. To see the list of 10x10 classes around the world click HERE.
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artists & art lovers For more information about ad placement, sizes and costs for corporate sponsors, email Omar at omar@urbansketchers.org
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USK DALLAS ARRIVED AT NAMTA TO SKETCH THE EVENT
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OMAR JARAMILLO
RAYLIE DUNKEL
SPONSORSHIP TEAM REPS USK AT TWO CONFERENCES The Sponsorship team has been very busy in the past month. Omar Jaramillo and Jonatan Alcina attended the Creative World fair in Frankfurt and Raylie Dunkel attended the NAMTA (International Art Materials Association) Conference in Dallas. Raylie was joined at the NAMTA Conference March 3-6 by USk Dallas who sketched the event. The chapter drew a lot of attention from sponsors. Each got a fantastic goodie bag from MacPhearson, Daniel Smith gave them paints and other companies came to see what the flash mob of sketching was all about. Raylie continued to build relationships with our longtime sponsors and to meet new potential USk sponsors. Omar did the same at the Frankfurt fair, one of the biggest art-related fairs in the world that takes place at the beginning of the year. Omar is excited by the top secret pile of materials and samples that will appear in symposium goody bags this summer. CHECK OUT OMAR’S PICKS OF COOL GEAR FROM CREATIVE WORLD
ABOVE: THE DA VINCI CASANEO BRUSH TRAVEL BRUSH – its screw system is inspired by the cosmetic industry. DERWENT WATERCOLOR SETS – include a sponge to clean the brush.
ABOVE: RAPHAEL VINTAGE-LOOK TRAVEL BRUSHES AND SKETCHBOOKS. THE SENNELIER SECURE GRIP WATERCOLOR CASE. BELOW: SUPER 5 – offers water-resistant ink in practical cartridges. THE VIARCO PENCIL CASE JACKET WITH TIE.
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Welcome to USk Mallorca USK WOULD LIKE TO WARMLY WELCOME ONE OF OUR NEWEST CHAPTERS – MALLORCA. BY ANN SCHWARTZWALD
Mallorca is the largest of the Spanish Balearic Islands in the Mediterranean, off the coast of Spain, between Valencia and Barcelona. This group began meeting in 2013 sketching at local festivals to document and celebrate the cultural events of Mallorca. They applied for approval as a regional section of Urban Sketchers and became an official chapter in December 2017. Administrators Feliu Renom, Catalina Rigo and Liliana Boffi have grown the chapter to about 80 members. Feliu explains: “From the beginning, our group grew by collaborating in the organization of meetings at festivals such as the International Comic Week of Mallorca, the International Story Festival ‘Contesporles’, at the Jane’s Walk Palma or at the International Week of Architecture, which is why the group enjoys drawing both in urban and architectural environments as well as those where family and children predominate.” There is an abundance of beautiful places and colorful events to sketch on this lovely island. The capital city, Palma “has remains of Arabic architecture, representative buildings of religious and civil Gothic art and a very extensive old city with narrow exotic alleys. There are palaces and courtyards dating from the Gothic to Renaissance periods. Some buildings combine great historical and architectural interest with spectacular views of the city. The main ones are the Cathedral of Mallorca (13th century), the Bellver Castle (13th century) and the Lonja (15th century), but the extensive coast of the island, the mountain range of Tramuntana and beautiful inland towns give magnificent points of view.” Let’s not only welcome them, but also put Mallorca on our itineraries as we travel and sketch throughout Europe. This is a warm and friendly group! CONNECT WITH MALLORCA
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Bountiful Boston USK ACTIVE LOCAL SKETCHERS TAKE FULL ADVANTAGE OF THEIR CULTURALLY RICH ENVIRONMENT, DISCOVERS LESLIE AKCHURIN
If you find yourself in Boston some weekend, you are welcome to join the local chapter on one of its weekly sketch outings to an exciting Boston landmark, like le Corbusier’s Carpenter Center for the Arts or I.M. Pei’s John Hancock Tower, or a historic area, like the Back Bay or Harvard Square. And you can participate in the lively group discussion that typically follows. “Sketchers really enjoy each other’s company. They crave the opportunity to share their work and learn from each other,” says Laura Sfiat about the outdoor sketching group she founded in 2014 that became USk Boston two years later.
and retired people, old and young, locals and visitors joining the students,” Laura notes. “It’s a very lively and vibrant community.”
The rich history and architecture of Boston is the natural focus of its sketchers, and the group originally grew through participation of the city’s myriad architectural students. Today, this large floating community is still important to the chapter. “The group is constantly changing, so you’ll see different people at each sketching event. Our group is also quite heterogeneous, with professional
Three administrators – Eric Walden, Miriam Israelowitz, and Jenny Rushmore – divvy up the considerable work of planning the sketch outings as well as exhibitions, workshops, and media interviews for a group of more than 1,500 members. The chapter also has its own blog, in addition to a Facebook page and postings on Instagram, Twitter, and Flickr. Sketchers are also frequently invited APRIL 2018 15
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to cultural events outside the city. Soon, for instance, a contingent will be traveling to an arts festival in Franklin, Massachusetts. The chapter has organized a number of workshops – for example, with local USk correspondent Mike Daikubara, who teaches his effective techniques for rapid sketching – and has plans to invite more distant instructors in the future. CONNECT WITH BOSTON
SKETCHES BY MIKE DAIKUBARA (RIGHT) & DAVID MITCHELL (BELOW)
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Majid Modir has spent much of his adult life moving around and experiencing life in places distant from his homeland of Iran, a place he still considers home. He followed his heart to Stockholm, Sweden, where he married and became a graphic designer, art director and avid painter, yet his friends always knew him as a constant sketcher.
KILL YOUR DARLINGS AND OTHER INSIDER TIPS MEAGAN BURNS MEETS INSPIRATIONAL ARTIST & WORKSHOP INSTRUCTOR MAJID MODIR 18 DRAWING ATTENTION
While in Stockholm, Majid learned of Urban Sketcher Simo Capecchi, who was based in Naples and was offering urban sketching workshops throughout Italy. Majid signed up for Simo’s workshop in Volterra, Italy in
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HAVE FUN EXPLORING NEW WAYS OF CREATING ART OUTSIDE; I DON’T CONSIDER MYSELF A TYPICAL SKETCHER BECAUSE I DON’T LIKE TO RELY ON LINES, NOR ENTIRE SCENES.” 2014. Since he had always been a fan of plein air painting, he soon discovered he enjoyed being an Urban Sketcher; it kept him out and among the scenes of daily life. “I have fun exploring new ways of creating art outside; I don’t consider myself a typical sketcher because I don’t like to rely on lines, nor entire scenes. Urban sketching gave me lots of new ideas on how to see the scenes around me.” One year after that first USk workshop, Simo Capecchi asked Majid to assist her in teaching her urban sketching workshops, and one year after that, Majid moved to Volterra, Italy and took over the Volterra (Tuscany) workshops. An APRIL 2018 19
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Urban Sketcher Instructor was born! Majid enjoys creating workshops and teaching other curious artists; this past year he offered the workshop, “Frame The World, Differently”, which was an opportunity to draw and paint for five days with good company, while learning new watercolor techniques and tightening compositions. The workshop was held in a historic Tuscan villa, which provided the participants with many breathtaking views, and a chance to learn and bond with a curious and artistic community, that still stays in touch even long after the workshop. Majid teaches techniques to break down scenes and give attention to smaller details; which can sharpen the eye and improve composition. Majid will be teaching more workshops in Volterra, Italy, to help you see and draw your world differently. The next workshop is called, “No Lines Only Values” where participants will have an opportunity to practice developing values and watercolor technique -- in the abandoned places of Tuscany.
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MAJID’S TIPS: Kill your darlings! Also you want to be having fun, don’t do this if it isn’t fun. Next, it’s important to always be challenging yourself and not relying on the same methods for each sketch. Kill your darlings and try new techniques!
‘Kill your darlings’
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DON’T TRY TO SEE IT ALL AT ONCE MARK ALAN ANDERSON MEETS MARION RIVOLIER AND JOÃO MORENO IN THE COUNTRYSIDE OF ALENTEJO, AS PART OF SKETCH TOUR PORTUGAL
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Picture a land of huge open spaces, punctuated by small villages. Strolling along, sketchbook in hand you notice the yellow and peacock blue framing around windows and doors of gleamingly white houses. The saturation of color seems in stark contrast to the gray and green tones of the landscape, peppered with stone and olive trees. Ever present is the horizon line, rarely broken by distant mountains or promontories. This is the world in which I discover Marion Rivolier and João Moreno. As part of Sketch Tour Portugal, they are exploring the region of Alentejo through pen and paint brush. Strong contrasts form a lasting impression on Marion. “I liked the relationship between architecture and nature: villages grow from the rocks and vegetation.” Her sketches contrast brilliant whites against the warm colors of the farmed plains.
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Marion is very matter of fact in stressing the importance of the sky and reaffirms that in her Alentejo sketches. Although their techniques are different, a common approach to subjects and discovery of places emerged. While Marion strived to reveal “hidden” aspects of the region, João was deeply influenced by the contrasts, to the degree that they became his main focus. Sketch Tour Portugal is built around a notion of a sketching partnership, and I wondered what two strangers talk about when thrown together in a sketching collaboration. It turns out they do what most artists would do: spend a lot of time talking about various techniques, choices of watercolor and brushes, debating natural vs. synthetic hair, and so on. “We had long conversations about the paper of the sketchbooks we received,” said Marion. “How to use water? We both like to play with lots of water and sometimes it was a problem because of the humid atmosphere.”
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Alentejo covers a very large area and both sketchers shared the same suggestion for visitors: Don’t try to see it all at once. “Choose a good spot and stay for at least three days,” João told me. “Take your time, search for the best spot, look at the scenario for at least five minutes. Never use a pencil and start directly either with a brush or a pen; work at a slow pace and leave some white space on your page.” This strategy complements Marion’s direct approach: “I do not draw a preliminary drawing in pencil before I begin,” she says. “I start painting directly, in watercolors, with large brushstrokes.” The sketching pair agree on the importance of taking time to observe before making marks on paper, to better capture the moment, light, and movement. What matters most is the story of the place. If a sketcher has something to say, the drawing will be interesting, it will have a soul even if its construction is imperfect.
JOÃO’S TIPS: Take your time, search for the best spot, look at the scenario for at least five minutes. Never use a pencil and start directly either with a brush or a pen; work at a slow pace and leave some white space on your page.
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a perfect medium MANY BEGINNING SKETCHERS STRUGGLE TO CREATE A SENSE OF DEPTH USING WATERCOLOR. THIS MONTH, JENNY ADAM TELLS US THAT THE STRUGGLE IS REAL. BY MARK ALAN ANDERSON
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aving learned to use the medium on her own with no formal training, industrial designer Jenny Adam from Frankfort, Germany, feels empathy for those learning to understand how watercolors work. This was the basis for her Lisbon workshop, Atmospheric Watercolor. “The issues I wanted to address were how can I create a sense of atmosphere and depth with watercolor?” Sketchers are often disappointed by washed out color. Jenny points out that watercolor beginners usually don’t realize the importance of “going dark.” Because the medium is so transparent, hues are deceptive and dry much lighter than they appear when wet. When sketchers overlook this characteristic a loss of depth can occur, which is especially frustrating in urban sketching where the goal is often communicating a sense of place. “You need to capture the whole spectrum of the scene,” she says. “Everywhere you look, you’ve got light and tone and shadows. You need the whole spectrum to communicate depth.”
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We learned in school that there are warm and cool colors, but how can sketchers really use that knowledge to their advantage? Elaborating on this point, Jenny shares her own ideas about color, as well as her own struggles. Although she’s been sketching on location for about ten years, in the beginning it was with pen or pencil. She discovered watercolor a few years ago and embraced it as a perfect portable medium for the urban sketcher, with the potential for many different effects. One difficulty she encountered was that her colors often seemed flat. Learning as she sketched, Jenny Adam began to discover things about the nature of color. “In our Lisbon workshop we discussed how cool colors recede to the background and warm colors come forward to create even more depth in a sketch. We experimented with a limited palette.”
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She explained that workshop participants were challenged to limit themselves to only two colors – for instance, Burnt Sienna and Ultramarine Blue to see how far those hues could be pushed in a sketch. She believes that beginners can figure out a lot by limiting colors and tools. Jenny’s approach to composition is refreshingly liberating as well, working in a rather organic fashion and letting a drawing emerge from a subject that interests her. Art instruction books might suggest that sketchers look at a scene and resolve the composition through a series of preliminary sketches, but she prefers the drawing itself to inform her. “I want to turn off my head and let my hand do the thinking. My drawings usually just grow from a point of interest for me. A lot of times I actually discover something
about the subject while I’m drawing that I didn’t even see when I first started out…this is something that I really like because I’m learning as I’m drawing. I really don’t want to plan anything. I want to see what happens if I just go with the flow.” “On location drawing is something I just do for myself. It’s something really selfish in a kind of way – I don’t need to please anyone else, I just need to please me.”
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THE BEST WAY TO LEARN IS TO TEACH NINA JOHANSSON HAS BEEN A TEACHER AS LONG AS SHE HAS CARRIED AROUND A SKETCHBOOK. “I FINISHED MY TEACHER’S EDUCATION IN 2002, THAT’S WHEN I STARTED MY FIRST SKETCHBOOK” SHE RECALLS. BY PEDRO LOUREIRO
A native of Sweden, Nina is one of the northernmost urban sketchers in Europe, and commutes everyday between her residence in Stockholm and her job in Eskilstuna, both home to USk chapters. “The two groups have very different ways of working”. The Stockholm chapter, of which she is one of the admins, meets at least once a month. “We go somewhere, we draw for two hours. Then we have fika (the APRIL 2018 35
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Swedish word for getting together with people around hot beverages and tasty pastries) and maybe we draw some more and head home.” The rhythm in Eskilstuna is very different: “We meet every Tuesday at lunch time – that’s 45 minutes of intense drawing, a quarter of an hour having coffee, and then we head back to work!” Education is as much part of her as sketching is: “It’s fun to teach!” she exclaims. In her new job teaching in the Information Design programme in Eskilstuna, Nina engages her students with everyday sketching by handing out sketchbooks in the beginning of the semester, to encourage them in honing their observational skills on their own. “Informative illustration is about exactness, depicting things, explaining, simplifying”, she clarifies, for all of which, observation is key. After spending some years in the Board of the Urban Sketchers, she is presently a member of the Education Committee (EC). One of her main tasks is to evaluate the workshop proposals for the 36 DRAWING ATTENTION
Symposium: “We don’t select - we just evaluate - Is it good enough? Is it well planned? Does it have clear learning goals?” The EC is also in charge of the development and organization of activities and courses like the 10 Years 10 Classes program (10x10), which they decided to extend beyond the 10th anniversary of USk. Nina’s upcoming workshop Watermarks - part of the Pushing Your Sketching Boundaries initiative – will take place in the shore area of Barceloneta, in Barcelona, Spain. Together with Isabel Carmona and Marion Rivolier, she will teach the participants all about painting with watercolor during a three-day workshop. The participants will be divided into three groups, which will work simultaneously with each of the instructors, exploring their different approaches to watercolor. “I work with lines, Marion works without them, Isabel does her fantastic freeflowing explosions of colors”, Nina compares. It’s the first time the
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three urban sketchers will work together. “Isabel is very good at planning and has been doing this for so long”, Nina says, feeling very optimistic. Weary of the winter she concludes that after the grey and short days of the cold season “you’re really full of will to get there and draw!”
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Review | Endnotes
PARKA REVIEWS BY TEOH YI CHIE
Teoh Yi Chie is an infographics journalist who joined Urban Sketchers Singapore in 2009. He’s probably better known as Parka from Parkablogs. com a website that reviews art books and art products. This month Parka video reviews the Wild Plein Watercolor Travel Brushes. Check it out!
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Our Manifesto
• We draw on location, indoors or out, capturing what we see from direct observation • Our drawings tell the story of our surroundings, the places we live and where we travel • Our drawings are a record of time and place • We are truthful to the scenes we witness • We use any kind of media and cherish our individual styles • We support each other and draw together • We share our drawings online • We show the world, one drawing at a time.
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