Tuscan Landscape

China Ink and Watercolor
a workshop with Simo Capecchi and Caroline Peyron

Volterra, August 28 - September 1rst

In this fourth Volterra’s workshop, participants will be guided to discover the city and its surroundings that offer a variety of subjects, guided by Simo Capecchi, an architect that likes to paint, and by Caroline Peyron, artist and experienced art teacher.
We will enjoy a broad view on the city medioeval skyline and its architectures and practice drawing Tuscan landscape from the hills around Villa Le Guadalupe, learning how to be accurate but selective. Dealing with the artistic heritage of the city, we will sketch fragments of statues and sarcophagi in Museo Guarnacci, one of the best Etruscan museums of Italy, or sketching in the area of Teatro Romano. 
Ancient statues are fascinating for us today also because they are incomplete, because they are fragmented. What is missing allows the mind to integrate and elaborate. Drawing interrupted lines let us free, portends what is not there. We will draw statues in the Etruscan Museum Guarnacci - like the famous "Ombra della sera", and in the area of Teatro Romano, searching for significant voids. 
In fascinating Villa Le Guadalupe and its gardens we’ll draw a XIX° century interior and descover hidden naturalistic details. Participants will be encouraged to reinterpret reality and historical remains in a personal way. The addition of texts and annotations on the page will complete our sketched reportages with a narrative value.
With Simo Capecchi participants will focus on watercolor technique and with Caroline they will mostly use China Ink with chinese brush and bamboo nib. 

Photos of previous workshops 2010-2012.
Have a look at last year's photos in a reportage by Teri Nye (Atlanta, USA)

Workshop Schedule

Wednesday, August 28
6 pm: workshop introduction followed by dinner at Villa Le Guadalupe

Thursday, August 29
10 am -1 pm: Sketching inside Villa le Guadalupe and in the garden

2 pm: lunch at Villa le Guadalupe

4 pm - 7 pm: Sketching panoramas from Villa le Guadalupe and surroundings

8 pm: dinner at Villa Le Guadalupe

Friday, August 30
10 am - 7 pm: Sketching in the historic town of Volterra. Etruscan Museum, Roman Theatre and alabaster artisans (lunch on your own).

8 pm: dinner at Villa Le Guadalupe

Saturday, August 31
 10 am - 1 pm: Sketching in Val di Cecina

 2 pm: lunch at Villa Le Guadalupe

 4 pm - 7 pm: Panoramas from Badia Camaldolese
 and Le Balze
 8 pm: dinner at Villa Le Guadalupe

Sunday, September 1rst
9 am - 12 am: Open Sketchcrawl in the historical center of Volterra

12 am: Workshop’s public exhibition in Sala Docciola, Volterra

Hosting institution
Le Guadalupe. Spazio per le Arti is an association dedicated to arts by germans dramaturgs Wolfgang Storch and Klaudia Ruschkowski that hosts workshops in arts, theatre, design and music, with an international program. Le Guadalupe is located in a XIX° century villa, with a view on the southern hills of Volterra, with beautiful gardens around and interiors covered with frescos.
Workshop in Le Guadalupe web site / german and italian translation

Participants
Maximum number: 15 (min. 6), each level of drawing experience is welcome.

Supply list 
Any supplies participants normally use are fine, sketchbook and loose papers included. We'd like to use pastels, pencil, ink pen, watercolors, China ink and bamboo nib.

Registration fee 
200 euro (including 21 hours lessons and a Moleskine watercolor sketchbook)
plus 120 euro, including 6 meals in villa Le Guadalupe
to apply email to: simo.capecchi(at)gmail.com

Accomodation: 3 double rooms available inside the villa (shared bathroom, breakfast included, ask for more infos). Other suggested hotels in our workshop map.

Sponsor
Moleskine will provide sketchbooks.

About the instructors

Simonetta Capecchi completed her PhD degree at the University of Naples (Italy) in Architectural Drawing and she works as an illustrator. Since 2006, she has curated four editions of "In viaggio col taccuino", an exhibition on travel sketchbooks with conferences and workshops. A selection from this exihbit has been published in book form (Sguardi su Napoli, 2009). Simonetta's sketchbooks have been included in many international exhibitions and featured in edited collections such as Danny Gregory’s An illustrated life. She contributes to Urban Sketchers from Naples, where she lives and has been an instructors in three past Urban Sketchers Symposiums.
Blog: www.inviaggiocoltaccuino.com

Flickr: www.flickr.com/photos/simocapecchi

Trees by Caroline Peyron

Caroline Peyron is a French artist living in Naples. Personal exhibitions of her works have been held in Naples at the Grenoble Institute, Biblioteca Nazionale, Castelnuovo and Museo Archeologico Nazionale and in Rome at the Istituto Nazionale per la Grafica. She has been an art teacher and has held workshops for private schools and public institutions for over twenty years. She gives art classes for children, adolescents and adults both in private schools and in cultural institutions like the Museo di Capodimonte and Museo Archeologico Nazionale of Naples. Watch a video of a recent performance.

Meet the instructor.

Hidden Naples. Drawing and discovering in the South of Italy

An urban sketching workshop

with Simo Capecchi, Lapin, Caroline Peyron and Laura Scarpa

May 30 - June 2, 2013

This second edition will offer a deep immersion in the city of Naples to all the sketchers who have always dreamed of visiting the South of Italy. Locations will be selected among private houses and gardens that normally are not open to the public where we will meet local activists and artists who have a story to be recounted. Participants will be guided to discover Naples through different approaches to urban sketching. Field sessions will be led in turn by Simo Capecchi, an architect who likes to paint; Laura Scarpa, a comic artist who has always kept a graphic diary;  Caroline Peyron, an art teacher and artist;  Lapin, a French illustrator and indefatigable urban sketcher.
The aim of the Neapolitan days is to experience that, while we draw from real, we should go beyond a simple aestethic or naturalistic result. Psychological and social investigation, but also personal sensitivity and imagination can enrich location drawings that depict, reflect and elaborate reality. We observe to understand and to create.
Watch this past edition slideshow.

workshops / instructors
Urban perspectives with Simonetta Capecchi
Vintage cars and dinosaurs with Lapin
Ligh and shadows with Caroline Peyron
Tell the story with Laura Scarpa

Urban perspectives with Simonetta Capecchi
Naples has intrigued Simo Capecchi since her first visit, twenty years ago. Amazing panoramas and narrow perspectives force a sketcher to adapt the eye to rapid changes of light and direction. She has portrayed the city in sketchbooks and on long narrow single sheets of accordeon-type folded sketchbooks, or joined paper, to obtain circular panoramas or to recount a long vertical sketchwalk. In her experience, composition is 90 % of the success of a drawing. Participants will be guided to choose the best layout and to fit their urban perspectives in a long and narrow rectangular drawing. Location will be chosen to alternate broad views and panoramas with narrow streets and public stairs perspectives, so as to alternate extremely horizontal to vertical views.

Learning goals: To practice basic freehand perspective and to focus on drawing differently according to distances, in order to suggest depth; to learn how to be accurate but selective, trying not be overwhelmed by details; to focus on adding people and annotation on the page, in order to complete the drawing with a storytelling value.




Vintage cars and dinosaurs with Lapin
A new place can be intimidating and the first page of a sketchbook is hard for everyone. Warming up with your favourite subject, makes it easier. For Lapin, who grew up in the 80’s with plastic dinosaurs toys and who loves old Fiat 500 and Citroën 2cv design, a good sketchbook must contain at least one dinosaur or a vintage vehicle. Follow him while, in Naples for the first time, he'll be looking for Tyrex and Vespas, at the University Museum of Paleontology or along the city streets, to be depicted as contemporary icons in his unmistakable drawings.

Learning goals: Participants will be guided to find the best point of view to represent an object, to be precise but essential in describing its details, to master perspective and eventual distortions fitting the subject into the page, and to add annotations or graphics to the drawing, looking for a recognizable personal style.

Light and Shadows with Caroline Peyron
In Naples the contrast between light and shadows is magnified by the narrowness of certain streets where direct sunlight almost never arrives, or arrives only when the sun’s rays strike the black basalt pavement stones at a perpendicular angle, opening onto enormous hidden spaces: gardens, courtyards, the interiors of houses. The paradox of darkness outside and light insides. Liquid shadow and material light. In various locations participants will experiment with two different techniques - oil pastels and China ink, which highlight the strong contrasts between light and shadow in this city, at both a literal and metaphoric level.

Learning goals: To work with light and shadows using opposing techniques and to explore the correspondences between black&white and colors; experimenting with the fluidity and nuances of China ink and substance and contrasts of oil pastels.

Tell the story with Laura Scarpa

Cities are stories, made by people but also made by signs left on the streets. Contemporary stories or stories from the past. Words or traces on walls, objects, faces, gestures. Standing in a cafè, in a market or by a street corner we can capture fragments of life and report them in our sketchbook. A city like Naples is full of stories that deserve to be discovered and told. We will meet artists in their studios, artisans in their workshop, vendors in the streets around the historical center of Naples to interview them to create a graphic reportage.

Learning goals: To sketch people quickly, adding details and voices even from memory, to create a short story; to focus on storytelling value of drawing, with the addition of "voices" and annotations on the pages.

Hosting institution
Riot Studio is a space and an association dedicated to creativity, research and innovation that is both working space and exhibition space for events/workshops in art, cinema, design, music, new media with an international program and context. Riot Studio is located in an historical building in the center of Naples, with ancient frescoes and a beautiful inner garden.

Workshop Schedule
participants will be divided into three groups and will meet each instructor in turns. 

Thursday, May 30
            3.00 / 4.00 pm  reception and introduction (Riot Studio, palazzo Marigliano).
            4.00 / 7.00 pm Demos and warm up drawing session:
            Lapin: Portraits / Simo Capecchi: Watercolors / Caroline Peyron: China Ink
Friday, May 31
            10.00 am /1.30 pm  Simo Capecchi / Caroline Peyron / Lapin
            2.30 / 6.00 pm  Laura Scarpa / Caroline Peyron / Lapin
Saturday, June 1
            10.00 am /1.30 pm  Lapin / Simo Capecchi / Laura Scarpa
            2.30 / 6.00 pm  Simo Capecchi / Caroline Peyron / Laura Scarpa
Sunday, June 2
            10.00 am /1.30 pm  Simo Capecchi / Caroline Peyron / Lapin / Laura Scarpa
            4.00 / 8.00 pm  open Portrait Party and public exposition of workshop's results 
            in Riot Studio, garden of palazzo Marigliano

Supply list
Any supplies participants normally use are fine, sketchbook and loose papers included. We'll use pen, ink, colored pencils, brush pen and watercolors.
Caroline supplies: China Ink + bamboo nib and big Chinese brush, oil pastels + hair spray or fixative spray. Have a look at Lapin "secret" gear and Simo sketching gear.

Sponsorship: Moleskine will provide 2 sketchbooks (Japanese + Watercolor large).

Workshop fee
200 €  /  students discount: 180 €
to apply email to: simo.capecchi(at)gmail.com

Maximum number of participants
30 partecipants maximum, any level of drawing experience welcome 
(minimum 12 participants)

Workshop MAP for hotels - sketching locations will be announced later on.
**We suggest Tribù B&B to meet other participants - eventually you can share a room or an apartment**

About the instructors:

Simonetta Capecchi completed her PhD degree at the University of Naples (Italy) in Architectural Drawing and she works as an illustrator. Since 2006, she has curated four editions of "In viaggio col taccuino", an exhibition on travel sketchbooks with conferences and workshops. A selection from this exihbit has been published in book form (Sguardi su Napoli, 2009). Simonetta's sketchbooks have been included in many international exhibitions and featured in edited collections such as Danny Gregory’s An illustrated life. She contributes to Urban Sketchers from Naples, where she lives and has been an instructors in three past Urban Sketchers Symposiums.
Blog: www.inviaggiocoltaccuino.com
Flickr: www.flickr.com/photos/simocapecchi
 
Lapin is a French illustrator, an artist, an urban sketcher working for fashion, advertising and editorial houses who lives between Barcelona and Paris. Lapin can be defined as a mobile illustrator who carries his sketchbook and a compact sketching gear to the street, to a bar, to a metro, to Istanbul or Tokyo. Sketching is a way for him to record every second of his life and feel alive. Lapin teaches the art of "sketching" during workshops in universities and in art schools, participates in exhibitions around Europe and shares his day to day sketches on his blog He is a correspondent for Urban Sketchers blog and has been instructor at the Portland Urban Sketchers Symposium.
Web: www.lesillustrationsdelapin.com
Blog: les-calepins-de-lapin.blogspot.com

Caroline Peyron is a French artist living in Naples. Personal exhibitions of her works have been held in Naples at the Grenoble Institute, Biblioteca Nazionale, Castelnuovo and Museo Archeologico Nazionale and in Rome at the Istituto Nazionale per la Grafica. She has been an art teacher and has held workshops for private schools and public institutions for over twenty years. She gives art classes for children, adolescents and adults both in private schools and in cultural institutions like the Museo di Capodimonte and Museo Archeologico Nazionale of Naples. Meet the instructor.

Laura Scarpa is a comic artist born in Venice now based in Rome who manages to juggle balance between comics, children's illustration, writing and editing. She has published in numerous magazines and comic books, has written and illustrated stories for children and adults and curated comic magazines. She has published L'arte della sceneggiatura, and Caffè a Colazione (a collection of images from her sketchbooks). She has held workshops and conducts comic courses and she is chairman of ComicOut, a non-profit cultural association. Meet the instructor.

Web: www.laurascarpa.com
Tlog: caffeacolazione.tumblr.com

*In italian on Simo Capecchi's blog
**Thanks to Franco Lancio for workshop logo 

Watercolor Sketching in Historic Montreal with Marc Taro Holmes and Shari Blaukopf

August 2–4, 2013, Montreal, Canada

SOLD OUT! - We are happy to announce the Montreal watercolor sketching workshop is now full. (Well, sorry for everyone who didn't get in :), but you know what I mean :) If you are interested in signing up for a waiting list please mail marc.taro(at)gmail.com and we will contact you in the event any current students have to cancel. We'll make sure people on the waiting list get notified when we put on future workshops. (Plans are not set, but will be summer 2014, unless people in southern countries want to reach out to us for winter 2013).

Thanks! ~Marc and Shari

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Join Urban Sketchers Montreal founding members Marc Taro Holmes and Shari Blaukopf for a weekend of drawing and painting in historic spots around Montreal.

We’ll begin in the Old Port of Montreal — a historic district of cobbled streets and 400-year old buildings that’s unique in North America for its vibrant French flavor and colorful history. Spend a few minutes in Jacques Cartier Square, the area’s historic and cultural heart, and you’ll understand why. The square teems with cafés and restaurants, with strolling Montréalais and visitors from every corner of the globe.

Venture a few streets over, and you’ll find a quiet, intimate ruelle seemingly untouched by time. Or walk a few blocks south to the quays on the St. Lawrence River, which was the city’s economic and cultural artery connecting Montreal to the Old World. Tall ships are often in port, while the north side of rue de la Commune is lined with Sixteenth and Seventeenth century warehouses that once stored the valuable furs that built the city’s economy.

It's easy to lose sight of where you are — just half a day's drive from Boston or NYC — and imagine you're in one of Europe's historic capitals.

En plein air

The workshop will be an introduction to capturing this extraordinary environment by drawing and painting in watercolor en plein air.

We emphasize working quickly, entirely on location, making well-designed compositions that might hang as finished works of art.

Our demonstrations will show you how to reduce a complex scene to its essence, and how to use unified shapes to create a center of interest with strong composition, contrast and color, while preserving the whites of the paper and mixing lively washes of rich color.

Students will alternate time in small groups with each of our experienced urban watercolorists. Over Friday and Saturday, you’ll have the opportunity to paint and observe four complete demonstrations in different locations. 

On Sunday you’ll apply what you’ve seen to free sketching outdoors, with Marc and Shari circulating to give tips and comments. We’ll gather at the end of each day to show off our sketches and spend time giving critiques and answering questions.

Learning Goals

Composition:

• Distilling a complex scene to its essence in a limited amount of time
• How to focus the eye — creating a center of interest with contrast, color and selective detail

Sketching:

• Plan the painting — thinking about values and large shapes
• Observing negative space — designing the drawing
• Drawing expressively while getting the proportions right

Painting:

• Painting lively watercolor washes while controlling edges
• Preserving the whites of the paper
• Getting the values right — no more pale washed out watercolors
• Controlling colour with limited palettes

Pre-Workshop Meet-and-Greet, Thursday Aug 1: 

 

If you are available the night before the workshop, we will be announcing a restaurant/pub location for a casual meet and greet. This is informal and un-instructed, but feel free to bring your sketchbooks to show around. We will likely have some fresh work from the USK event in Barcelona to show-and-tell. (The meal will be at your own expense and we’ll pick a mid-range place with casual attire).

Workshop Schedule: 

Each day we will split into two groups, half the group with each instructor. This will enable you to sketch a variety of locations, while watching both artists at work. You may ‘paint-along’  — working on the same view as the instructor, or if you wish, explore the immediate area and sketch your own views, checking in with the instructor as their demo progresses. Throughout each session we will provide individual feedback on your sketches.

Friday Aug 2:

9:00 am- 12:00 pm:  Demo / Paint-Along at Place D’Armes Square
The square is surrounded by historic buildings including the Notre-Dame Basilica and Saint-Sulpice Seminary and features a sculptural monument to Paul de Chomedy, founder of Montreal.

12:00-12:30 pm: Review

12:30-1:30 pm:  Lunch Break and walk to next location

1:30-4:30 pm: Demo / Paint-Along on Rue De la Commune / Bonsecours Market
Views of the quay, many historic facades, and the silver dome of our 100 year old public market.

4:30-5:00 pm: Review

Saturday Aug 3:

9:00 am- 12:00 pm:  Demo / Paint-Along at Place Jacques-Cartier

The square offers views of the quay, Nelson’s Column, the historic Ramsay House and views of our nearby City Hall, as well as a bustle of public life.

12:00-12:30 pm: Review

12:30-1:30 pm:  Lunch Break and short Metro ride to next location (transit pass provided)

1:30-4:30 pm: Demo / Paint-Along at Dorchester Square
This is a green space next to our dramatic Cathédrale Marie-Reine-du-Monde,  also offering a variety of statuary and other nearby churches and neoclassical facades.

4:30-5:00 pm: Review

Sunday Aug 4:

9:00 am- 1:00 pm:  Free Sketching and Critique at Square St. Louis

We will circulate around as students choose their own views, offering individual critique, and if time allows, smaller sketching demos.

The square features a Victorian fountain, busts of Octave Crémazie and Émile Nelligan, and is surrounded by notable brightly painted Victorian residences. The immediate area includes the shops and restaurants of Rue St-Denis, and the tree lined residential streets typical of our Plateau Mont Royal.
 

Workshop Registration and Cost:

The workshop is $300 CDN payable via PayPal. After receiving your application form, we will contact you with a PayPal request in your email.

Final Registration is July 20, 2013.

Maximum number of participants: 30 (minimum 16), All levels welcome
Workshop fee includes a 3-day transit pass to travel between locations, to hotels, or airport (on the STM 747 shuttle bus).

Contact: sblaukopf(at)gmail.com for further inquiries

Cancellation Policy: 

We are only able to provide refunds for cancellations up to July 20, 2013 with a cancellation fee of $25.00. In the event of too few registrants, all monies will be refunded less PayPal fees.

Download Registration Form here
Download Supply List here
Accomodations: http://www.tourisme-montreal.org/

About the Instructors: 

Marc Taro Holmes

Canadian artist Marc Taro Holmes (BFA ’96) has worked as an Art Director and Conceptual Artist in feature animation and video games since 1998. He has helped design projects for companies such as Electronic Arts and Disney. Since 2011 he has been working out of his own studio in Montreal, Quebec doing urban sketching, fine art and freelance concept art.

http://citizensketcher.wordpress.com/

http://tarosan.wordpress.com/

Shari Blaukopf

A graphic designer, illustrator, educator and daily sketch blogger, Montreal-based Shari Blaukopf has been painting and teaching watercolor for many years. In fact, she began taking workshops at the age of 12 and has subsequently painted and drawn her way across several European countries and parts of North America. These days she spends her winters inside the classroom teaching graphic design to college students and her summers outdoors giving watercolor workshops and painting the urban landscape.

http://shariblaukopf.com/

Line to Color Workshop In Seattle with Frank Ching and Gail Wong

Like any building, a sketch needs a good foundation.   In this intensive workshop, architectural drawing instructors Frank Ching and Gail Wong will walk you through clear steps covering the complete process of making a sketch on location, from the time you draw the first line until you apply the last touch of color. This workshop will occur over a 3 day period meeting at various historic locations in Seattle and will consist of 4-3.5-hour sessions starting Friday evening and ending Sunday early afternoon.

We will start with a Friday evening sketch outing in Ballard’s historic district, then meet for dinner and a keynote presentation at the Ethan Stowell’s Ballard Pizza Company restaurant.  Keynote topics will cover, perspective, composition, process in developing the sketch, approaches to watercolor and value. Ideas introduced in this session will be demonstrated on site and practiced in the following sessions with one on one help from Frank and Gail.

Saturday morning meet at Gas Works Park. This session will focus on line drawing as the base of the sketch.  We will start by  considering the  selection of a point of view and establishing a basic structure  for a drawing. The afternoon session will build on the morning’s work and add value and color to capture the quality of light, enhance the sense of spatial depth and accent the focal point of your sketch.
   
Sunday apply approaches you learned on Saturday. Gail and Frank will be available for more one-on-one consultations with workshop participants.  We will join the Seattle Urban Sketchers for this sketch outing..location to be determined.  Frank and Gail will be available to give you advice and  individual help.

Learning Goals:
The Line:
    1. Selecting a point of view: Detail, Fragment, Building, Setting
    2. Composing the page: Where to start, how to proceed
    3. Establishing spatial depth: Near and far
Moving to Color:
    4. Values the key to spatial depth:  Seeing  and using tonal values to create depth and         capture the quality of light.
    5. Strategies to applying color and limiting your palette. 

Workshop Schedule:
    
Friday May 17, 2013
Location: Historic Ballard- Meet in front of the Ballard Pizza Co.
5107 Ballard Ave NW, Seattle, WA 98107
6:30-8:00 pm sketch outing Historic Ballard
8:00-10:00 pm Dinner Meet and Greet, Keynote Presentation

Saturday May 18, 2013
Location: Gas Works Park and Fremont                                                                                                                                                                
9:00 am- 12:00 pm:  Demo composition, perspective approach, and directed sketching exercises.
12:00-12:30 pm: Review
12:30-1:30 pm:  Lunch Break  on your own in Fremont
1:30-4:30 pm: Watercolor Demo values, color and watercolor approaches directed exercises
4:30-5:00 pm: Review

Sunday May 19th, 2013
Location TBD:  Pioneer Square or Pike Place Market
9:30 am–12:30 pm:  Free sketch time applying what you learn, with help from Frank and Gail
12:30 pm-1:00 pm :  Sketch exhibition/sharing sketchbooks

Maximum number of Participants 25 (minimum 15)
All levels welcome

Workshop Registration and Cost:
$200.00 US via Check  mailed to Gail Wong 2609 East Garfield St. Seattle, WA 98112
Cost includes dinner at Ballard Pizza Co.  (Drinks on your own)   
Out of Country Participants can pay via Pay Pal.  We prefer check if you are from the U.S.

Contact gail@glwarc.com if you are interested in registering.
See links below for workshop registration forms and additional information.

Cancellation Policy:
In the event of too few registrations, all monies will be refunded less PayPal Fees.
If participant cancels, a $25.00 cancellation fee will be assessed.
No refunds if cancelled with in 7 days of the workshop date.

Registration Deadline: 
May 7, 2013

About the Instructors:

Frank Ching is Professor Emeritus at the University of Washington, having recently retired after over 35 years of teaching. He is the author of numerous     books on architecture and design, all published by John Wiley & Sons. His works have been translated into over sixteen languages and are regarded as classics for their renowned graphic presentations. Awards that Professor Ching has received include the Honorary Degree of Doctor of Design from The Nottingham Trent University; a Citation for Excellence in International Architecture Book     Publishing; an AIA Institute Honor for Collaborative Achievement; and a National Design Award from the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum.  You can see Frank’s work on the Seattle Urban Sketchers blog at http://seattle.urbansketchers.org/ and on his blog at
http://www.frankching.com/wordpress/.

Gail Wong is currently a part-time Lecturer at University of Washington and has     taught design drawing and sketching for 20 years. She was teaching under the     leadership of Frank Ching for 16 years prior to his retirement. She is also a licensed and practicing architect in the State Washington focusing on residential design as well as architectural illustration. She is the blog administrator/coordinator for the Seattle Urban Sketchers and on the Urbansketchers Workshop Committee. Her work is posted on Seattle Urban     Sketchers at http://seattle.urbansketchers.org/ and on her own blog http://glwsketchworks.blogspot.com/.

Contact Gail Wong before purchasing to see if there are any spots available.

Line to Color Information

Registration Information  

Workshop Sites

Visit Seattle.org  for places to stay.  University District will be the closest area to our sketch sites for Saturday.  

Barcelona 2013 / Call for Submissions.

Urban Sketchers is excited to announce a “Call for Submissions of Workshop Proposals” to anyone interested in teaching at the 4^th International Urban Sketching Symposium, to be held at Barcelona in the Summer of 2013.

Due Date for Submissions: December 15^th, 2012.

Selection process*

The proposals will be reviewed by the Urban Sketchers Workshop Program Committee, which includes Matthew Brehm, Gabi Campanario, Orling Domínguez, Virginia Hein, Veronica Lawlor, Fred Lynch, Melanie Reim, Swasky and Gail Wong. Selected proposals will be announced in January. 

Compensation

The Symposium organization will pay for travel and four nights of accommodation for the selected instructors. Local instructors who will not need to travel will receive an honorarium.

Workshop Proposal Form: The “Workshop Proposal Form” needs to be fill out completely and sent to Orling Domínguez at orling@urbansketchers.org before December 15th, 2012. Click here to view and download the "Workshop Proposal Form".

For more info you can contact:

Orling Domínguez

Workshop Program Coordinator

orling@urbansketchers.org

*Workshops Committee members  interested in submitting proposals will abstain themselves from evaluating and voting when their proposals are being reviewed.

Sketching in Naples: photos

 Naples USK Workshop has been a great experience. We had fun drawing, talking and walking throught the streets of this amazing city. Lots of discoveries, also for me that I have been living here for twenty years already. I'm already sure we'll organize another edition next year.  Franco Lancio made the souvenir above for us on last day - unfortunately some participants where already left, but as you see there was a nice mix of sketchers.

Watch this slideshow to get the feeling of these four days. I will add more notes under photos in the following days, before Volterra's Workshop, where there are still some spots available.

III° Sketching Workshop in Tuscany: fragments of Volterra

drawing by Franco Lancio, 2011

Volterra, June  9 / 12 
In this sketching workshop participants will be guided to discover the small medioeval town of Volterra and beautiful Tuscan landscape, by Simo Capecchi and Caroline Peyron.
Villa Le Guadalupe, our hosting institution for this third workshop edition, it is a XIX° villa covered with original frescos, located on the hills that face Cecina Valley.

Dealing with the artistic heritage of the city, we will sketch fragments of statues in Museo Guarnacci, one of the best Etruscan museums of Italy and draw in the area of Teatro Romano. Villa Le Guadalupe with its fascinating interior and surroundings will host us for pleasant dinners in the garden and sketching sessions. Participants will be encouraged to reinterpret reality and historical remains in a personal way. The addition of texts and annotations on the page will complete our sketched reportages with a narrative value. Each level of drawing experience is welcome.

Volterra from Villa Le Guadalupe by Simo Capecchi

Trees by Caroline Peyron

 

* See participants drawings and photos from 2010 and 2011 workshops editions.
** Read what participants Teri Nye and Fiona Mills wrote about their Volterra's workshop experience.

Workshop Schedule
Saturday June 9
4 p.m. - 6 p.m. workshop starts with an open Sketchcrawl in Volterra
6.30 pm. public exhibition of sketchbooks and workshop introduction in Sala Docciola
8 p.m. - dinner at Villa Le Guadalupe  
Sunday June 10
10 a.m. - 1 p.m. Fragments in Villa le Guadalupe’s garden
2 p.m. lunch at Villa le Guadalupe
4 p.m. - 7 p.m. Panoramas in Villa le Guadalupe
8 p.m. - dinner at Villa Le Guadalupe
Monday June 11
10 a.m. - 1 p.m. Fragments in Teatro Romano
2 p.m. lunch by your own
4 p.m. - 7 p.m. Panoramas in Badia Camaldolese
8 p.m./ dinner at Villa Le Guadalupe
Tuesday June 12
10 a.m. - 1 p.m. Fragments in Museo Etrusco
2 p.m. lunch in Villa Le Guadalupe
4 p.m. - 6 p.m. Panoramas from Parco Fiumi
6.30 pm. public exhibition of workshop results in Sala Docciola
8 p.m./ dinner at Villa Le Guadalupe End of Workshop
*workshop map coming soon

Workshop Registration
300 EUR
18 hours lessons, 6 meals in Villa Le Guadalupe (4 dinners + 2 lunches), transportation between Volterra and the Villa plus a Moleskine sketchbook are included.
Application + info simo.capecchi@gmail.com

Hosting institution
Le GUADALUPE spazio per le arti is an association dedicated to arts by germans dramaturgs Wolfgang Storch and Klaudia Ruschkowski that hosts workshops in arts, theatre, design and music, with an international program. Le Guadalupe is located in a XIX° century villa on the southern hills of Volterra that belonged to alabaster artists, brothers Tangassi. It is surrounded by a beautiful garden with a view on Cecina valley.
Lodging in Villa Le Guadalupe
3 double rooms are available to sleep inside the villa at 40-50 euro/x night, included breakfast x 2 persons, shared bathroom. Ask for more info.
Workshop MAP

Participants Maximum 20 (minimum 10)
Languages Italian, English, French
Sponsor Moleskine