Urban Sketching between Leiden's picturesque canals
21.10.2024 - 25.10.2024
Leiden
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Ian Fennelly
landscape,
urban sketching
999 EUR
Explore the Netherland's south and discover the magic of Leiden with pen and watercolour! Professional urban sketcher Ian Fennelly will show you techniques and methods that help you to create your own lively and atmospheric sketches. Learn to find your individual style and fill your sketchbook step by step. Inspired by the charm of the picturesque scenery you will be able to capture your favourite travel memories with brush and pen.
Welcome to Leiden, a town in the south of the Netherlands that looks like it was built straight out of a picture book. Leiden seems like a town that only took Amsterdam's lovely and tranquil sides and left out the crowded and loud parts. This makes it a town that is perfect for a week of sketching with Ian Fennelly! Are you ready for 28 kilometers of canals and "Singel" (city limits), 13 fantastic museums, numerous monuments, and a city center with its centuries-old architecture, that looks like one big open-air museum? Then you're ready for Leiden.
Ian will teach you about the composition and the structure of the sketch, how to recognise clear perspective, and how to train your eye to see what is important for your work and reduce it to the essential elements. All of this and so much more will be taught and developed in many drawing and sketching sessions together. The course aims to deepen your skills in sketching, drawing, and watercolouring, exchanging views, capturing atmospheric scenery, and having fun.
Learning goals:
- train the eye to see shapes, value and color in outdoor scenes
- become comfortable sketching in public
- learn to draw standing up
- become an urban sketcher and start reaping the benefits of seeing the world in a new way
All teaching sessions and demonstrations will take place in Leiden. Ian will choose the most suitable and inspiring subjects to draw. Each session will cater to varying standards of ability and confidence, and you will be stimulated throughout the workshops by stories and little demo sketches to make the experience more rewarding and stimulating.
Target group: (all levels) This course is meant to be for beginners as well as for advanced learners.
Number of participants: 6-12
Where do we sketch/draw? We will draw and sketch mainly outside en plein air, so you should not mind walking longer distances on foot. A seminar room for days of bad weather will also be available.
