Symposium at Barcelona - Workshops



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Urban Sketchers are meeting each other as every year. This one is for Barcelona, Go ! (Thanks a lot to Swasky and his team for the organisation, bravo!)

We're about 300 drawing the city. There are also workshops with great artists from all around the world. I help as translator for Veronica Lawlor's one (New York drawing teacher). To sum-up her workshop, she says : "just play !"

We'll draw in front of Gaudi's blue house and other buildings. Wow, they don't really match with each other, that's why this corner is so-called la discordia. For each building one drawing, with a different style, no need to be realistic. Madre mia!  

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Let's use the parallel fountain pen which is all happy coincidences in the drawings ! Workshops are also a great moment to meet sketchers and speak about styles. For example Celia Burgos plays with black ink and bleach. Awesome !

During the afternoon, it rains (quite a lot !) but we don't mind. We might be the only workshop happy about it : something more to play with ! All the tourists run away while we laugh at the natural splashes we get from the sky. Let's try my new pentel color brushes...  

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There are workshops during three days. In the morning I stroll about Barcelona's labyrinths to join the sketchers. Every morning the same scene : and the best part is "Good night darling, you'd like a beer ?" when it's 8 am. "Well, no thanks, not tonight !"

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Coffee always at the same place too, a good way to feel home while travelling. I enjoy making me a little family around the world ! And here again the same scene every morning : baguettes gently cooking, the waitress smiling, the woman having brandy. 

Vamos, let's go ! 2 more workshops to do, astonishing (and also splashing !)
First one with Shari Blaukopf from Canada (and Vincent Desplanche, 2 great aquarellists). Big constraint : only 3 primary colours, from tubes, making first thumbnail value drawings. You've got 3 hours. Well, I'll change for tubes soon, colours are full of pigments, miam miam !
Second one with Paul and Tia from Singapour : pour coffee in your sketchbook, spread it out with your credit card, do your sketch's hair done (let's grab the hotel's comb). A bit of salt, some chinese ink lines with the chinese stick, splash watercolour with a teethbrush (let's grab it too !)... It's like a trip to childhood, without thinking (too much)... 

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Wow, someone doesn't know how to draw anymore, it's rushing out !

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Above all if someone's had some vermouth...

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Little by little, someone's head comes back...


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5 comments:

memi said...

Just wonderful, all of them! I am so glad that we had a chance to meet each other....

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Unknown said...

Fabulous! Really like your commentary.

Lovely to meet you!

Unknown said...

I love the way you describe your experience. And your sketches are wonderful!

Emily Nudd Mitchell said...

Thank you guys ! I'm happy I got to know you too ! It's been such a great time all together !