Urban sketching, as its name suggests reveals the characteristics that define the “city” crowds of people, density of the built environment, and the messy textures of the urban environment.
The urban ally, is a service corridor that is the backside of our urban fabric, a space that is filled with the service necessities, garbage containers, electrical and communication utility lines, garages, and parked cars. This workshop provides an alternative approach to sketching front yards and commercial corridors.
Alleys can be textural with fencing, vegetation, and rough, messy landscapes. It’s also rather simple to comprehend as most are single-point perspectives.

We will be exploring these spaces through sketching using a variety of media, pencil, pen and ink, and colored pencil and watercolor.

Workshop starts at ARTspot at 9 am. Daniel will give a short overview before your group heads out to sketch! Workshop outdoor location will be within walking distance of ARTspot. Exact location TBD. Danielwill select where we draw based on Saturday’s weather, etc.

Students receive a 10% discount on in-store ARTspot purchases from the day of registration to workshop end of day. Excludes clearance items and other workshops. Cannot be combined with other discounts.

Daniel Winterbottom, Professor of Landscape Architecture University of Washington. His love of urban wandering results in a spontaneous passion for urban sketching and reportage. Traveling frequently, he has found subjects that reappear from continent to continent while documenting the local nuances. He is fascinated by natural phenomena, reflectivity, light and shadow, and disappearance. In his body of work thematic narrative emerges, often accompanied by personal commentary. He embraces stylistic exploration and refinement. He was awarded an Urban Sketchers Reportage Grant for 2021 for his project “The Shifting Landscapes of Despair, Hope, Survival and Persistence “

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Supply List

• Sketch pad

• 2b-5b pencils

• Eraser

• Pens (Waterproof Ink such as Microns, Stadler, or Copic #.05 or .1)

• Brush and black ink or watercolor (Choose one or both)

• Colored pencils