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• Marina's art on Flickr.
• Marina's website. 

• Pete's blog.
• Pete's art on Flickr. Workshop 8: Cars in the City

0 0 February 22, 2016 Instructors: Lapin & Gérard Michel

Workshop Description
Drawing cars has become a very popular topic in the urban sketching activity. Many portraits of cars and vintage vehicles can be seen on different urban sketching blogs, pages and groups. Even in some recent publication as “Carnet de Bagnoles”, sketching cars became a real topic in the sketching on location field. Both of us have sketched hundreds of it, and we became specialists.

On the one hand, the workshop is about focusing on a car portrait from a very narrow point of view. It’s an intimidated subject, and we will explain how to approach it in both an intuitive and a rational way. On the other hand, the workshop is also about cars as a part of the city. We will use cars as a foreground of a street view, giving scale and deepness to the scene. An urban sketch of a lively road wouldn’t look complete without the presence of cars. Learning Goals (What are a few of the most important skills and concepts you'd like your participants to learn from their experience?)

1.    Car portraits.
Within this chapter of the workshop, we will be teaching perspective techniques (measuring and comparing distances, wheels in perspective, begin with what’s close to the sketcher etc.) and drawing techniques (keeping in mind the visual focus, handling car proportions etc.).
We will show how important the distance is that you sketch the subject from, in terms of the workshop participants perception. Sketching from very close will turn your sketch into a fisheye drawing!

Additional relations of this workshop chapter:
2.    Cars in the city:
Within this chapter of the workshop, we will be teaching handling techniques of cars in the foreground, middle ground and background, cars as a decor and a layer of sight.

Workshop Location

No matters to go in a museum, cars are everywhere in town. Any quiet area near by the Manchester Urban Sketching Symposium host - except a pedestrian area - with some urban context, will be fine. The workshop can happen in any street with standing cars.
If some old timers could be organized, that would be guaranteed fun… Workshop Schedule (How will the workshop be organized over the 3.5 hours?)
Introduction (20 minutes)

Workshop chapter 1: Car portraits (90 minutes)
Workshop chapter 2: Cars in the city (90 minutes)
Get-together with a little exhibition of all drawings done in the workshop (10 minutes) Supply List (Are there any supplies that you feel are important for participants to bring with them for the workshop?)
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