Urban Design and Field Sketching Beyond urban sketching, I will be presenting concepts of perspective drawing concepts, sequence viewing, urban design, and expressive notions and the discovery of this great city, Seattle. Each class will be in different locations within the city, meeting at sites, working in ‘plein air’  and creating beautiful, urban landscapes. Queen Anne Studio and Seattle…

  Spring in the Palouse A tell-tale or telltale is an indicator, signal, or sign that conveys the status of a situation, mechanism, or system. While painting plein air in the Palouse this past weekend a new thought; ok, maybe an old and new thought : how do you paint the wind? Blustery out there among the wheat fields;…

    The gift of Tom Hoffmann, my watercolor teacher, describes and introduces to his students the 4 variables of watercolor: color, value, wetness and composition. However, I have found another. This new variable came to me as I was practicing another master’s work, Michael Reardon and this notion came to me as I was discovering…

A new approach to teaching new adventurous sketchers notions of describing space(aka perspective), I thought it would be a good approach to simply have the students look at the bigger shapes within their view and as a result  fall into the magical realm of figure/ground. Figure: The main focus of the composition (positive space) Ground:…