MG Swap Sketching Experience
Discover the beauty of urban sketching with two international Urban Sketching instructors Maru Godas and Marina Grechanik! Join them in their unique workshops in Barcelona and Tel Aviv and learn the art of sketching urban life around you. With their guidance, you'll learn how to create vibrant and inspiring sketches of the cities’ architecture and people, capturing a moment in time. Using a variety of of mixed media techniques, Maru and Marina both love, you'll create sketches that explore the people, places, and cultures that make these cities so special.
Whether you’re an experienced sketcher or a beginner, you’ll benefit from Marina and Maru’s expertise, gaining insight into their processes and practices. Don’t miss this unique opportunity to experience the cities of Tel Aviv and Barcelona through the eyes of two masterful artists!
The format
In each city we are proposing the same format: a 3 day workshop with two instructors, two sessions per day, up to 15 people per class.
Every participant will spend an entire day with two teachers, obtaining more one-on-one direction and delving into concepts for the improvement of the person's individual aesthetic.
On the fourth day, we'll have an open sketchcrawl that local sketchers and workshop attendees can take part in.
Every participant will spend an entire day with two teachers, obtaining more one-on-one direction and delving into concepts for the improvement of the person's individual aesthetic.
On the fourth day, we'll have an open sketchcrawl that local sketchers and workshop attendees can take part in.
During the sketchcrawl Maru and Marina will lead a zoom workshop for participants from the swap city, that couldn't attend both locations, so they can experience the flavor of the other city.
To celebrate the end of the workshops, there will be a Drink & Draw gathering, with a pop-up exhibition of sketches produced during the workshops.
Workshop location
Barcelona (Spain) map
Barcelona is one of the most vibrant cities in the world, and it is an ideal place for sketching on location. There are a variety of streets, plazas, beaches, and other attractions that provide an array of inspiring scenes for artists to draw. The city has a distinct architecture with its Gothic and Modernist buildings and is home to some of the world’s most famous artworks. The city's stunning coastline also provides plenty of inspiration for sketching. With its mix of old and new, Barcelona is an ideal destination to capture the beauty of the city and its people.
Date and time
15-18.6 (Barcelona)
21-24.6 (Tel Aviv)
Maximum number of participants
All levels, maximum 30 students (15 in each group)
10% discount for the participants who purchase the full SWAP pass (both cities).
Registration fee
420 EURO (for each city)10% discount for the participants who purchase the full SWAP pass (both cities).
TO BOOK
Choose either:
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- Full SWAP pass
- Barcelona SWAP pass
- Tel Aviv SWAP pass
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Workshop schedule
The Barcelona workshops run from Thu 15 to the Sat 18 June with open sketchcrawl on Sun 19 with the local urban sketchers which will be followed in the evening by drink&draw session.
The Tel Aviv workshops run from Thu 21 to the Sat 23 June with open sketchcrawl on Sat 24 with the local urban sketchers which will be followed in the evening by drink&draw session.
Learning goals of the SWAP
- to allow the participants to experience the longer process of exploring urban life and enjoy approach of two different instructors
- to break free from automatic approaches and choices
- to connect to the emotional side of drawing
- to capture emotion, movement and body language
- to get out of comfort zone and allow yourself to play
- to try out new techniques and materials in not-traditional way
- to research, experiment and draw for the sake of drawing
- to improvise and combine the accidental with the planned
- to enjoy the process without thinking about the result
ACCOMMODATION AND TRAVEL
Attendees need to make their own travel and accommodation arrangements for the duration of the event. Meals are not included.
Art Supplies
Each participant will get essential art supplies for each workshop, provided by our sponsors:
- Pentel
- Hahnehmulhe
- Rohrer und Klinger
- White Nights
We will be working with water soluble media: ink, watercolors, gouache, pastels, acrylic markers and so on.
About our workshops
Each day our workshops will focus on different subjects: people, cityscapes, green spaces. Participants will experience the same subject by each of the instructors.Day 1 - swap people!
WORKSHOP 1/1
I love people. Life around the beach. (Maru Godas)
How to draw and paint people to capture the essence of the movement.
Children playing, teenagers dancing, surfers, older people resting, sculpted bodies in the gym, bellies and love handles walking on the sand. Music, tapas and drinks at the chiringuito. Beach towels, floats, sand castles,...people are happy and expressive on the beach, so let's draw them. There is so much life and information to be gathered from the beach universe.
In this refreshing workshop we will learn how to capture summer life on the beach using gouache and colored pencils.
In this refreshing workshop we will learn how to capture summer life on the beach using gouache and colored pencils.
In this workshop participants will learn:
- How to paint people in action using gouache brushstrokes
- How to match lines and shapes to play with action.
- How to use a limited color palette to create a sense of unity and focus on movement.
- Use lines and blurring or smudging techniques to create a sense of speed or motion.
- How to use non-local colors to draw people (blue, green, yellow…)
- How to plan and compose a double page about people in action
WORKSHOP 1/2
People in Motion - Marathon for a Fearless Sketcher (Marina Grechanik)
Sketching people is perhaps one of the hardest tasks for a sketcher but also the most fascinating and enjoyable. Drawing people that are moving and interacting is even more challenging. But the feeling of overcoming the challenge is so good – nothing seems difficult after you managed to capture a dancing couple or children playing soccer!
It doesn’t matter if you’re a beginner or an experienced sketcher, we all have a common enemy – our own FEAR! It can be the fear of a white page, fear of making a mistake, fear of spoiling our beautiful drawing, fear of drawing people and so on… We’ll talk about our fears and try to understand what prevents us from being free and will try to break them up! We’ll remind ourselves the joy of drawing we felt when we were kids!
This workshop is about sketching people in action, but not in the traditional academic approach. It’s not about anatomical modeling and measuring proportions, which is good to know, but we are not going to do it here.
We’ll draw as much people as we can, trying different approaches. We’ll start with a series of fun exercises that will help us to get going without fear, to free ourselves from working automatically and to get out from our comfort zone.
In our final exercise we’ll create multi-figure drawing, capturing movement and space, free of fear and full of fun!
A short demo of possible sketching processes, using mixed technique, will be shown.
At the end of the session participants will introduce their stories and share experiences.
At the end of the session participants will introduce their stories and share experiences.
Learning goals
- to break free from automatic approaches and choices
- to connect to the emotional side of drawing
- to improve hand-eye coordination
- to improve the ability of observation
- to capture emotion, movement and body language
- to switch off control and enjoy the process
- to research, experiment and draw for the sake of drawing
- to enjoy the process without thinking about the result
Day 2 - swap cityscapes!
WORKSHOP 2/1
Vibrant cityscapes on colored paper (Maru Godas)
How to use gouache and pastels on colored paper playing with negative spaces.
In this workshop, we will discover how to use gouache and mixed media techniques to create funky and colorful urban cityscapes. We will work with different materials like gouache, color pencils, and Neocolor pastels and will practice some aspects related to cityscapes: composition, mass balance, visual reading and points of interest (urban elements, people, and so forth).
One of the highlights of this workshop is to start with colored paper that will help us to work with covering techniques (gouache, Neocolor pastel, Posca Markers…)
In the base work, you will work with the composition as well as the color, looking for a balance of masses, creating depths and playing with negative space.
Colored papers will be provided in the workshop.
In this workshop students will:
- Learn how to plan a panorama taking advantage of background color using negative spaces
- How to work with geometric shapes and textures using a non-local color palette.
- Understand shapes and color balance to create focal points and bold visual readings.
- Exercise the right hemisphere, a helpful practice for sketchers and artists.
WORKSHOP 2/2
City in Collage - Shapes & lines games (Marina Grechanik)
In collage works, there is a fascinating layer of using "ready-made" texts and images taken from printed matter, instead of or alongside the traditional expression of drawing and painting. The work technique is tearing, cutting, gluing and drawing with all the parts connected on a flat surface.
At the beginning of the 20th century, collage became one of the main movements of modern and avant-garde art. Using collage was seen as a rebellion in the traditional art world and became a tool that promotes political and social ideas.
Collage has many variations and types. But in all of them there is the element of game, of a combination of accidental and planned.
We will combine the work with collage with urban sketching, which fits it a lot, because urban sketching also combines spontaneous and accidental (the street) and planned (our idea).
Learning goals:
- Practice the composition and lead the viewer's attention.
- See the objects in the shapes and lines, in an abstract way, and not separately.
- Filter and generalize
- Develop a sense of proportion
- Improvise and combination accidental and planned.
Day 3 - swap green spaces!
WORKSHOP 3/1
Gouache and pencils: The Green Team. (Maru Godas)
Learn how to use gouache and color pencils for landscaping, foliage, and urban greenery.
In this workshop we will see the gouache features, how to work with different densities, how to mix it and how to create a limited color palette.
We will also explore and test different gouache techniques (dry brushing, dragging, dripping, stipping…) to create a wonderful range of organic textures to use in sketching landscapes.
Gouache is a suitable material to combine with other dry techniques, such as colored pencils. We will see how to combine this dream team to achieve lush green effects.
We will also learn some aspects related to landscape composition, mass balance, visual reading and focal points (buildings, urban furniture, people, etc.).
In this workshop participants will:
- Learn the use of gouache and mixed media techniques for urban greens.
- Discover how to create organic textures to apply to nature environments
- Learn how to plan layers from dark to light colors
- How to use a reduced color palette
- Learn how to plan a panorama of urban greens, creating focal points and an interesting visual reading.
WORKSHOP 3/2
Color as emotion – gouache & mixed media (Marina Grechanik)
In this workshop we will focus and pay attention to the feelings that a certain place causes us and will see how we can express that feeling with help of color relations.
Through short exercises we will learn or refresh for ourselves different ways of working with gouache.
Then we will do some tone and color exercises, we will build a limited palette that will help us express a mood.
In the final and longer exercise we will create a gouache work combined with different line tools, that will express an emotion or mood through our artistic choices.
A short demo of the sketching processes, using gouache and mixed technique, will be shown.
At the end of the session participants will introduce their stories and share experiences.
Learning goals:
- Learn how to use color theory rules
- Understand tonal relationships
- Create limited palettes based on color wheel’s pares
- Use color to express mood and emotion
- Practice working which gouache in non-traditional way
ABOUT THE INSTRUCTORS
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