Some time ago I found an old wiro notebook in a drawer. A scruffy wiro bound notebook with a photo of 2 men in a kayak with a bear on the front cover. In that notebook I found terrible sketches drawn in pencil made while travelling in 1991. One sketch leapt out at me. It was a rough pencil sketch of Mt Ararat from a backpacking trip to eastern Turkey. The sketch really surprised me – it was a very basic pencil sketch, drawn using a .5mm technical pencil on a cheap notepad. The sketch is just black and white… To my surprise the sounds and smells of the day came flooding back. Meeting some Kurdish goat herders and their flock near the base of Mt Ararat, about 10km from the Iranian border on a bright sunny but cool, alpine day. Along with memories of driving across the mountain steppe in an old Renault 19 and the smells of chai and coffee in a Doğubayazıt pasta solunu. It all came back come flooding back! Why did it evoke such vivid memories? I’m not really sure to be honest. Maybe t...
Learn how paint markers and focussing on big shapes first can transform your sketches.
Learning goals:
• Learn to identify positive or negative space to push your subject forward
• Let go of the pencil and work backwards with blocks of colour, adding detail last
• Explore framing your subject by blocking the negative space with opaque colour in loose strokes
• Become comfortable with the application of opaque markers – (Posca or Molotow or similar)
• Avoid white page fright with tinted pages.
Workshop Location:
Ellen Melville Centre, 2 Freyberg Place, Auckland Central
Date and time:
1pm to 4pm, 20 July 2019
Supply list:
Bring opaque media and tinted sketchbooks if you have them, however tinted papers and a range of markers will be supplied to work with. Your usual drawing and watercolour tools will be useful also.
Number of students:
Minimum 7 people, maximum 15 people.
Registration fee:
$45 NZD bank payment or on the day.
Contact Murray to book.
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