4/7/18 Stephanie demo'ing for her workshop students. |
I
poked my head into Stephanie Bower’s
10x10 USk workshop yesterday at King Street Station. Called “Good Bones” for
its emphasis on building a strong support for a sketch with confident
perspective, it’s a workshop I fondly recall taking myself a few years ago and which was immensely useful and instructive. Her
students watched with rapt attention as she demonstrated her principles.
After
that, I wandered around
King Street Station’s upper level. A window view I hadn’t noticed before caught
my eye – a small slice of skyline dominated by Columbia Tower (left) and the
Seattle Municipal Tower. For this sketch, I recalled – and used the principles
from – another terrific 10x10 workshop I took a year ago: Sue Heston’s “Simple Shapes, Stronger Sketches.” Whenever I’m potentially
intimidated by a skyline of buildings, I remember Sue’s “sky shapes” – simply drawing
the line that separates the sky from the “not-sky.” It seems like it should be
the same as drawing the building contours, but somehow the sky-shape concept
makes it easier.
4/7/18 A bit of skyline as seen from King Street Station. |
Both workshops sound like winners!!!
ReplyDeleteThanks for the tip! It's useful to sketch in cities in Taiwan where tall buildings are everywhere.
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