Uncover the great thing about city sketching with two worldwide City Sketching instructors Maru Godas and Marina Grechanik! Be part of them of their distinctive workshops in Barcelona and Tel Aviv and study the artwork of sketching city life round you. With their steerage, you’ll learn to create vibrant and provoking sketches of the cities’ structure and other people, capturing a second in time. Utilizing quite a lot of of combined media methods, Maru and Marina each love, you’ll create sketches that discover the individuals, locations, and cultures that make these cities so particular.

Whether or not you’re an skilled sketcher or a newbie, you’ll profit from Marina and Maru’s experience, gaining perception into their processes and practices. Don’t miss this distinctive alternative to expertise the cities of Tel Aviv and Barcelona by the eyes of two masterful artists!

Prepared for this expertise? Register right here.

The format

In every metropolis we’re proposing the identical format: a 3 day workshop with two instructors, two periods per day, as much as 15 individuals per class. Each participant will spend a whole day with two lecturers, acquiring extra one-on-one route and delving into ideas for the advance of the particular person’s particular person aesthetic.

On the fourth day, we’ll have an open sketchcrawl that native sketchers and workshop attendees can participate in. Throughout the sketchcrawl Maru and Marina will lead a zoom workshop for contributors from the swap metropolis, that couldn’t attend each places, to allow them to expertise the flavour of the opposite metropolis. To have a good time the top of the workshops, there shall be a Drink & Draw gathering, with a pop-up exhibition of sketches produced through the workshops.

Workshop location

Barcelona (Spain)

Barcelona is without doubt one of the most vibrant cities on the planet, and it is a perfect place for sketching on location. There are a number of streets, plazas, seashores, and different sights that present an array of inspiring scenes for artists to attract. The town has a definite structure with its Gothic and Modernist buildings and is house to among the world’s most well-known artworks. The town’s beautiful shoreline additionally supplies loads of inspiration for sketching. With its mixture of previous and new, Barcelona is a perfect vacation spot to seize the great thing about the town and its individuals.

Tel Aviv (Israel)

Tel Aviv is an incredible place to sketch on location. With its Mediterranean local weather and vibrant tradition, there isn’t a scarcity of fascinating and distinctive scenes to attract. The town has a mixture of trendy and historical structure and identified for its assortment of Bauhaus-style buildings, which have been declared a World Heritage Website by UNESCO. Tel Aviv’s seashores are an ideal place to sketch too, and its colourful markets are lively and fascinating tales. Tel Aviv can also be house to a wealth of road artwork, making it an ideal place to seize distinctive and provoking paintings.

Date and time

15-18.6 (Barcelona)
21-24.6 (Tel Aviv)

Contributors

All ranges, most 30 college students (15 in every group)

Registration price

$420 EUR (for every metropolis)
10% low cost for the contributors who buy the total SWAP move (each cities).

TO BOOK

Observe the hyperlink beneath to purchase your ticket:
MG Swap Sketching Expertise passes

Workshop schedule

The Barcelona workshops run from Thu 15 to the Sat 18 June with open sketchcrawl on Solar 19 with the native city sketchers which shall be adopted within the night by drink&draw session.

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The Tel Aviv workshops run from Thu 21 to the Sat 23 June with open sketchcrawl on Sat 24 with the native city sketchers which shall be adopted within the night by drink&draw session.

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Studying targets of the SWAP

• to permit the contributors to expertise the longer means of exploring city life and revel in method of two totally different instructors
• to interrupt free from automated approaches and selections
• to hook up with the emotional facet of drawing
• to seize emotion, motion and physique language
• to get out of consolation zone and permit your self to play
• to check out new methods and supplies in not-traditional approach
• to analysis, experiment and draw for the sake of drawing
• to improvise and mix the unintentional with the deliberate
• to benefit from the course of with out fascinated with the consequence

Lodging & journey

Attendees have to make their very own journey and lodging preparations throughout the occasion. Meals are usually not included.

Artwork Provides

Every participant will get important artwork provides for every workshop, offered by our sponsors:

• Pentel
• Hahnehmulhe
• Rohrer und Klinger
• White Nights

A listing detailing what you need to carry to the workshop shall be offered for contributors.
We shall be working with water soluble media: ink, watercolors, gouache, pastels, acrylic markers and so forth.

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About our workshops

Every day our workshops will give attention to totally different topics: individuals, cityscapes, inexperienced areas. Contributors will expertise the identical topic by every of the instructors.

Day 1 – swap individuals!

WORKSHOP 1/1 – I really like individuals. Life across the seaside. (Maru Godas)

How to attract and paint individuals to seize the essence of the motion.
Kids taking part in, youngsters dancing, surfers, older individuals resting, sculpted our bodies within the health club, bellies and love handles strolling on the sand. Music, tapas and drinks on the chiringuito. Seashore towels, floats, sand castles,…persons are pleased and expressive on the seaside, so let’s draw them. There’s a lot life and data to be gathered from the seaside universe.

On this refreshing workshop we are going to learn to seize summer season life on the seaside utilizing gouache and coloured pencils.

On this workshop contributors will study:

• Tips on how to paint individuals in motion utilizing gouache brushstrokes
• Tips on how to match strains and shapes to play with motion.
• Tips on how to use a restricted shade palette to create a way of unity and give attention to motion.
• Use strains and blurring or smudging methods to create a way of pace or movement.
• Tips on how to use non-local colours to attract individuals (blue, inexperienced, yellow…)
• Tips on how to plan and compose a double web page about individuals in motion

WORKSHOP 1/2 – Individuals in Movement – Marathon for a Fearless Sketcher (Marina Grechanik)

A very good sketch is like magic. It may seize motion, motion, emotion and time – it will possibly seize life itself! However how will we make this magic occur?

Sketching individuals is maybe one of many hardest duties for a sketcher but additionally probably the most fascinating and fulfilling. Drawing individuals which are shifting and interacting is much more difficult. However the feeling of overcoming the problem is so good – nothing appears troublesome after you managed to seize a dancing couple or kids taking part in soccer!

It doesn’t matter for those who’re a newbie or an skilled sketcher, all of us have a standard enemy – our personal FEAR! It may be the worry of a white web page, worry of constructing a mistake, worry of spoiling our stunning drawing, worry of drawing individuals and so forth… We’ll speak about our fears and attempt to perceive what prevents us from being free and can attempt to break them up! We’ll remind ourselves the enjoyment of drawing we felt once we have been children!

This workshop is about sketching individuals in motion, however not within the conventional tutorial method. It’s not about anatomical modeling and measuring proportions, which is nice to know, however we’re not going to do it right here.

We’ll draw as a lot individuals as we are able to, making an attempt totally different approaches. We’ll begin with a sequence of enjoyable workouts that may assist us to get going with out worry, to free ourselves from working mechanically and to get out from our consolation zone.

In our ultimate train we’ll create multi-figure drawing, capturing motion and area, freed from worry and stuffed with enjoyable!
A brief demo of potential sketching processes, utilizing combined method, shall be proven.

On the finish of the session contributors will introduce their tales and share experiences.

Studying targets

• to interrupt free from automated approaches and selections
• to hook up with the emotional facet of drawing
• to enhance hand-eye coordination
• to enhance the power of commentary
• to seize emotion, motion and physique language
• to change off management and benefit from the course of
• to analysis, experiment and draw for the sake of drawing
• to benefit from the course of with out fascinated with the consequence

Prepared to begin studying? Register right here. 

Day 2 – swap cityscapes!

WORKSHOP 2/1 – Vibrant cityscapes on coloured paper (Maru Godas)

Tips on how to use gouache and pastels on coloured paper taking part in with destructive areas.
On this workshop, we are going to uncover how one can use gouache and combined media methods to create funky and colourful city cityscapes. We’ll work with totally different supplies like gouache, shade pencils, and Neocolor pastels and can observe some points associated to cityscapes: composition, mass steadiness, visible studying and factors of curiosity (city parts, individuals, and so forth).

One of many highlights of this workshop is to begin with coloured paper that may assist us to work with masking methods (gouache, Neocolor pastel, Posca Markers…)

Within the base work, you’ll work with the composition in addition to the colour, on the lookout for a steadiness of lots, creating depths and taking part in with destructive area.

Coloured papers shall be offered within the workshop.

On this workshop college students will:

• Learn to plan a panorama making the most of background shade utilizing destructive areas
• Tips on how to work with geometric shapes and textures utilizing a non-local shade palette.
• Perceive shapes and shade steadiness to create focal factors and daring visible readings.
• Train the appropriate hemisphere, a useful observe for sketchers and artists.

WORKSHOP 2/2 – Metropolis in Collage – Shapes & strains video games (Marina Grechanik)

Collage takes its title from the French phrase coller, “to connect” or “to stay collectively” and describes a variety of art-making methods that depend on the re-appropriation of beforehand made pictures and located supplies into new compositions.

In collage works, there’s a fascinating layer of utilizing “ready-made” texts and pictures taken from printed matter, as a substitute of or alongside the standard expression of drawing and portray. The work method is tearing, chopping, gluing and drawing with all of the elements linked on a flat floor.

Originally of the twentieth century, collage turned one of many predominant actions of contemporary and avant-garde artwork. Utilizing collage was seen as a insurrection within the conventional artwork world and have become a device that promotes political and social concepts.

Collage has many variations and kinds. However in all of them there may be the aspect of recreation, of a mixture of unintentional and deliberate.

We’ll mix the work with collage with city sketching, which inserts it rather a lot, as a result of city sketching additionally combines spontaneous and unintentional (the road) and deliberate (our thought).

Studying targets:

• Follow the composition and lead the viewer’s consideration.
• See the objects within the shapes and features, in an summary approach, and never individually.
• Filter and generalize
• Develop a way of proportion
• Improvise and mixture unintentional and deliberate.

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Day 3 – swap inexperienced areas!

WORKSHOP 3/1 – Gouache and pencils: The Inexperienced Staff. (Maru Godas)

Learn to use gouache and shade pencils for landscaping, foliage, and concrete greenery.

On this workshop we are going to see the gouache options, how one can work with totally different densities, how one can combine it and how one can create a restricted shade palette.

We will even discover and take a look at totally different gouache methods (dry brushing, dragging, dripping, stipping…) to create an exquisite vary of natural textures to make use of in sketching landscapes.

Gouache is an acceptable materials to mix with different dry methods, equivalent to coloured pencils. We’ll see how one can mix this dream staff to realize lush inexperienced results.

We will even study some points associated to panorama composition, mass steadiness, visible studying and focal factors (buildings, city furnishings, individuals, and so forth.).

On this workshop contributors will:

• Study the usage of gouache and combined media methods for city greens.
• Uncover how one can create natural textures to use to nature environments
• Learn to plan layers from darkish to mild colours
• Tips on how to use a lowered shade palette
• Learn to plan a panorama of city greens, creating focal factors and an fascinating visible studying.

WORKSHOP 3/2 – Coloration as emotion – gouache & combined media (Marina Grechanik)

Once we draw from commentary, we’re impressed by what we see and likewise influenced by what is occurring inside us. Totally different individuals will discover totally different tales in the identical place, take a look at it from totally different angles and really feel a distinct emotion or temper.

On this workshop we are going to focus and take note of the emotions {that a} sure place causes us and can see how we are able to categorical that feeling with assist of shade relations.

By means of quick workouts we are going to study or refresh for ourselves alternative ways of working with gouache.

Then we are going to do some tone and shade workouts, we are going to construct a restricted palette that may assist us categorical a temper.

Within the ultimate and longer train we are going to create a gouache work mixed with totally different line instruments, that may categorical an emotion or temper by our inventive selections.
A brief demo of the sketching processes, utilizing gouache and combined method, shall be proven.

On the finish of the session contributors will introduce their tales and share experiences.

Studying targets:

• Learn to use shade idea guidelines
• Perceive tonal relationships
• Create restricted palettes primarily based on shade wheel’s pares
• Use shade to precise temper and emotion
• Follow working which gouache in non-traditional approach

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Concerning the instructors

MG SWAP Sketching Expertise combines the abilities of:

Maru Godas

Maru is a contract illustrator and graphic designer primarily based in Barcelona. Fashioned in IDEP and the College of Wonderful and Technical Arts La Llotja in Barcelona. She specialised in digital illustration and new narratives and has labored over 20 years as an illustrator and freelance designer for publishers and magazines.

Her specialty is concentrated on moist methods equivalent to gouache and watercolor. She likes to experiment with new methods and get “combined media results” in her drawings. She loves to attract the city surroundings and landscapes, at all times recreating scenes and environment.

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Marina Grechanik

Marina is a contract illustrator, graphic designer and artwork educator primarily based in Ra’anana, Israel, graduated from an artwork academy in Belorussia. Marina initiated the USk Israel group – often main sketchcrawls, coordinating the City Sketchers Tel Aviv weblog and arranged and curated few group exhibitions.

Sketching is certainly one of Marina’s passions. In all places she travels, she takes her sketchbook alongside along with her. However the actual essence of city sketching for her is discovering tales in on a regular basis routines, and mixing sketching with day by day duties like caring for her kids, working, or working errands. “A sketchbook and a easy pen – that’s all you’ll want to go on a journey each day. Drawing is seeing, so that you simply have to open your eyes wider and begin to sketch!”
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