This summer season I used to be a visiting artist at Edmonds Sketcherfest, the place I confirmed my sketchbooks and taught a workshop. The occasion was a beautiful mixture of instructing, studying, many alternative artists’ sketchbooks, exchanging concepts, assembly previous pals, and making new ones.
My go to began and ended with a while spent in Seattle. This sketch is from a Drink & Draw session on my first night in Seattle. It’s so good to see pals you haven’t met in years!
These are some sketches achieved on a ship trip. A single pen and pencil had been the pared-down sketch package I used to seize the passing view. There’s so much you are able to do with only one or two instruments.
After having noticed the attractive rust-colored buildings at Fuel Works Park fleetingly on the boat trip, it was great to get a more in-depth take a look at them on a sketch stroll. The gorgeous factor about drawing on location is that you may see a lot extra shade than you may in {a photograph}.
I spent my first afternoon in Edmonds doing a warm-up sketch. A graphite pencil, eraser, and pen had been the one instruments we utilized in my workshop. (The eraser, as you may see on this sketch, is a drawing device: one you may attract your highlights with!)
On the day of the workshop, we had been fortunate to have or not it’s concurrently the native farmers’ market, so in fact we needed to sketch there!
Listed here are my sketch notes from James Hobbs’ keynote speak. If you happen to don’t know James’ work, take a look at his Instagram right here. His minimal line, distilled-down sketches are wonderful.
Organising a desk filled with sketchbooks to share with guests was one of many highlights of Sketcherfest, second solely to the expertise of hanging out with all these great individuals!
One last sketch from Pike Place Market, achieved on the one gray day of my journey. Sitting on the sidewalk with Genine and Stephanie, I sketched the stream of vacationers who stopped to take {a photograph} with this iconic signal.
