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Sketchbook Workshop: Buenos Aires and Capturing The Color Of La Boca with Ingrid Shults
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Learn to visually translate the color and vibrancy of La Boca, Buenos Aires, and travel there from the comfort of home, as we actively master a sense of place while producing a final product in this interactive drawing and watercolor seminar.
"Photography is an immediate reaction, drawing is a meditation." Henri Cartier-Bresson
Missing traveling? In this workshop series, we will virtually visit a different location each week, learning to visually translate your experiences and relive the age of traveling from home. We will learn how to quickly sketch and capture an environment with the use of references. These skills can be applied to future travel plans, or to find new ways to appreciate the space and environment around us. Each class will have its own emphasis and will build upon the previous session, although participants don’t need to have attended prior classes in order to enjoy.
This interactive session will transport participants to the heart of Argentina, the capital of Buenos Aires. Celebrate the bold colors of Buenos Aires through the La Boca district. This seminar will focus on color and how to mix neutrals to support the local colors of a celebrated arts district. The goal is to share a love of travel and learning while developing a new skill, providing a catalyst (observational drawing) for generative experiences vs. a passive one.
Led by an expert in Studio Arts, Ingrid Shults, this interactive seminar will provide a toolset of observational drawing skills geared towards rendering architecture, landscapes, people, and environments. Designed to inform curiosity as well as future travels, participants will come away with an increased desire to visually record their immediate surroundings and future travel destinations.
This conversation is part of a multi-part sketchbook series with Ingrid Shults. Each session is designed as a stand-alone seminar as well as part of a multi-week series.
Ingrid Shults is an artist and educator residing in Northern California. She has an MFA in Studio Arts from Purdue University, and has exhibited her work nationally and internationally. Ingrid works primarily as a painter with a focus on the figure, but has extended her practice of sketching to include her travels, or more relevant to the COVID-era, her untravels. Ingrid has a firm belief in the transformative power of observational drawing and promotes this practice in her workshops and the most recent Untravel Sketchbook Series.
This conversation is suitable for all ages.
90 minutes, including a 30 minute Q&A.
This last of four workshops taught me a lot about sketching but more importantly it was fun.
I have taken all four of Ingrid’s context classes. They have been a great learning experience. Ingrid is totally organized. Each class expands what you will find helpful to know for doing travel sketches on the run. Not only does the drawing improve but the colour does as well. Ingrid knows and tells what is important.
I have taken many art classes and have kept sketchbooks on travel and other things for a number of years. I am not a great artist or even a good artist, but I find it exciting and rewarding to learn old things in a new way. I would take any course Ingrid taught... you should see my new sketches from the last month compared to the one’s earlier in the pandemic. The ones done this month, since starting Ingrid’s course speak to the atmosphere of the place. Much better than a photographer! Thanks, Ingrid.
I loved it and want more. The artist did a great job explaining and engaging.
The lecturer clearly demonstrated how she would draw & paint the subject. However there was no time allowed for participants to draw & paint while the lecturer wasn't talking. It wasn't possible for me both to listen to the lecturer, and to draw & paint at the same time. So I wasn't able to complete a painting, as offered in the course description.