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Tim McCormack – Capturing the Experience: Travel Sketching with Spontaneity and Style (Online); Thursdays, April 10-May 1, 2025

This class was held in the past and is no longer available for registration. Please view our Online Course Catalog for current class listings.

Date: Thursdays, April 10-May 1, 2025
Time: 10:30 AM-1:00 PM Pacific Time, 1:30-4:00 PM Eastern Time, 6:30-9:00 PM London Time
Level: All
Medium: Pens, markers, brush, pencil inks, gouache, watercolor

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Anytime is a good time to travel and nothing is better for the travelling artist than keeping a travel sketchbook to enhance and capture the experience. It requires capturing the subject quickly with the bare minimum of line and colour. You must simplify, leave things out, and make the most of the materials.

Tim introduces ways to enhance your on-the-spot drawings and paintings and create sketchbooks filled with narrative and life. Whether you’re capturing stories of people in bustling urban settings or quiet moments in cafes, the emphasis will be on spontaneity, style, and experimenting with various media.

You’ll be introduced to convenient, expressive sketching tools like brush pens, fountain pens, and Posca markers—perfect for capturing quick, engaging snapshots of city life.

The emphasis will be on working intuitively with pencil, ink, watercolour and more

In the course, students will explore:

– How to capture the essence of character
– Different line-work styles
– How to draw people in motion
– Drawing from film to learn composition
– The key to capturing the details of street life and designing people with urban settings
– A basic yet flexible and whimsical approach to perspective
– Bringing sketches to life with basic shapes, hatching, calligraphy and silhouettes
– Working with fun watercolour techniques to enhance the visual narrative

 

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