Learn to feel comfortable sketching while traveling, through stunning and enticing views of Barcelona and Marrakech in this online course! Submit your work on Vivify and get my feedback anytime, no matter when you take each class.

We are, by nature, sketcher-travelers. Given the opportunity, there’s no place, situation, or character that hides from our pens and brushes when we’re finding out about a new place. But with limited time, how do we decide what we want to sketch? And why do we want to sketch what we choose?

In this 6-part course, we’ll explore the beautiful cities of Barcelona in Spain, and Marrakech in Morrocco through drawings, comfortably from our chairs, capturing the best that travel has to offer—the experience. We’ll focus on colors, values, contrasts, and similarities—words we use when talking about both travel and sketching. That’s no coincidence!

Workshops will be broadcast live on Thursdays November 12, 19, 26 and December 3, 10, 17, between 18:30 and 20:00 on Vivify. The course recording will be available for 30 days after the finish date.

Learning goals:

- Moments instead of paintings: Become acquainted with new layout and framing techniques

- Speed is your friend: Learn hacks to speed up your sketching, and to make peace with the unfinished

- Let curiosity guide you: Pretty pictures are nothing compared to what you learn from actually investigating your surrounding culture and people.

Materiais recomendados:

• Pen with waterproof ink or black rollerball pen;

• Pencil (preferably 2B);

• A small ruler will be needed for one of the exercises;

• Loose sheets of inexpensive paper for quick exercises;

• Watercolor sketchbook or sketchpad (suggested: 180-300g);

• Water cup;

• Paper tissue;

• A set of watercolors (Recommended colors: Cobalt Blue, Burnt Sienna, any bright red, Payne's Grey or Neutral Tint);

• Round brushes (medium-sized: 8-12) or a large Asian caligraphy brush.