Teaching Urban Sketching at Crealde School of Art has caused me t speed up my sketching process. I am learning how to focus only on the important details and then let everything else go since I drill this idea into my students each Sunday. Actually verbalizing and then demonstrating these ideas has caused me to get better at my own daily sketching.
The large mass of palm fronds simply became a pointed blob and I never focused on individual leaves, instead focusing on the impression of what it felt like. Sky just became a small splash of blue. Clouds are left vacant and hopefully the viewer fills in the details.
This sketch was also done on ancient tissue thin paper, so I didn’t take it as seriously and I am realizing that this attitude of not giving a damn is very helpful to the act of just throwing an idea down on the page.
The Winter sessions begins January 30, 2021 until March 20, 2021. We work outside and take every possible COVID safety protocol. I am masked at all times until this pandemic is over.