If you are into sketching and traveling then boy do I have a book for you! Today's inside peek is from the new book The Art of Urban Sketching: Drawing on Location Around the World and it features a tutorial on how to draw a wide-angle view.
Click on this page from The Art of Urban Sketching: Drawing on Location Around the World to enlarge and read how to draw a wide-angle view.
More about the Quarry book:
The Art of Urban Sketching: Drawing on Location Around the World
by
Gabriel Campanario
The Art of Urban Sketching is both a comprehensive guide and a showcase of location drawings by artists around the world who draw the cities where they live and travel. Authored by the founder of the nonprofit organization Urban Sketchers (www.urbansketchers.org), this beautiful, 320-page volume explains urban sketching within the context of a long historical tradition and how it is being practiced today. With profiles of leading practitioners and discussions of the benefits of working in this art form, this inspiring book shows how one can participate and experience this creative outlet through modern-day social networks and online activity. You'll find more than 600 beautiful, contemporary illustrations, as well as artists' profiles and extended captions where these urban sketchers share their stories, how they work, sketching tips, and the tools behind each drawing. With sketches and observations from more than 50 cities in more than 30 countries, this book offers a visually arresting, storytelling take on urban life from different cultures and artistic styles, as well as insight into various drawing techniques and mediums.
Gabriel Campanario is a staff artist at The Seattle Times and the founder of Urban Sketchers (www.urbansketchers.org), a nonprofit organization dedicated to fostering the art of on-location drawing. Campanario’s newspaper column, Seattle Sketcher, was awarded first place for blog writing in “The Best of the West” journalism contest. The blog and weekly print column, which combine location sketches and written stories, have quickly become popular in the Seattle area, where Campanario has been featured in TV and radio appearances.
A native Spaniard, Campanario moved to the U.S. in 1998 and has lived near Seattle with his wife and two children since 2006. His journalism career spans two decades, working for newspapers in Barcelona, Lisbon, California, and Virginia. Campanario has a master’s degree in journalism from the University of Navarra in Pamplona, Spain.
This one has been on my wishlist a while. You are seriously tempting me. See what birthday pennies I get ;)
Posted by: Carmen | January 24, 2012 at 01:39 PM
That looks like SUCH a cool book -- have to find it!
Posted by: Lori Anderson | January 24, 2012 at 02:11 PM