Thank YOU Shari Baukopf & Urban Sketchers Mário Linhares

Two sold-out workshops were held in Ottawa on Saturday September 30, 2017 at Sappers Staircase on the Rideau Canal.

Sappers Staircase, Ottawa

Our classroom at the bottom of the stairs along the canal

Winsor & Newton sponsored Shari's workshop (as they did at the 2017 Urban Sketcher's Symposium in Chicago) and each participant received a beautiful Winsor & Newton tote bag with watercolours.

Shari greeting sketchers and handing out Winsor & Newton bags

Every sketcher received a Cotman Pocket Sketch Box and tubes of artist quality watercolours

There were two sessions

Morning session: 9:30 am -1:00 pm (full, wait list only)
Afternoon session: 2 pm - 5:30 pm (full, wait list only)

To see the workshop schedule, visit this link

http://www.urbansketchers.org/2017/08/trees-and-city-workshop-in-ottawa-canada.html 

Shari Blaukopf welcoming sketchers to her workshop

There are five Urban Sketcher groups in Canada  

and four of the five groups had participants at this workshop!

(only Vancouver Urban Sketchers not represented)

Montreal Urban Sketchers

https://urbansketchersmontreal.wordpress.com/

Ottawa Urban Sketchers

http://ottawaurbansketchers.blogspot.ca/

Toronto Urban Sketchers

http://toronto-urbansketchers.blogspot.ca/

Waterloo Urban Sketchers 

https://www.facebook.com/groups/UrbanSketchersWaterlooRegion/

Vancouver Urban Sketchers 

http://vancouver-urban-sketchers.blogspot.ca/ 

The view from our outdoor classroom

 The Urban Sketcher 

International Education Program

Our Ottawa workshop was made possible through the urban sketchers education team and we would like to especially thank USk Education Director Mário Linhares (He hosts his personal blog and founded the Urban Sketchers Portugal chapter in 2009.)

From the website http://www.urbansketchers.org/p/workshops.html. :

"In an effort to foster educational opportunities for sketching enthusiasts, The Urban Sketchers Workshops Program supports artists interested in teaching urban sketching.

The program is an extension of our international urban sketching Symposiums. It aims to bring the educational experience of the Symposiums to any city where a qualified instructor can impart a workshop.

Urban Sketchers Workshops are taught by international and regional correspondents who contribute to our network of blog sites.

Workshops may vary, as their instructors do, in style and substance, but all share common goals: to focus on issues of artistic creation, such as drawing, composition, techniques and materials; and creative approaches, such as vision, expression, story-telling and reportage."

  More Photos From the Morning Workshop

Warm-up sketches

While Sharii is colour mixing greens, everyone takes taking notes

Shari demonstrates painting simple tree shapes

Demo: Simple tree shapes

Exercise No. 2.: Workshop sketches - simple tree shapes

Shari talking about painting values

Shari's value painting

Shari talking about composition and thumbnail sketches

Shari's thumbnail sketch

It was a truly terrific day! There are photos of the afternoon session being posted on the Waterloo Urban Sketchers Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/groups/UrbanSketchersWaterlooRegion/

The Waterloo Urban Sketchers also proposed a weekend sketching agenda and invited Ottawa Urban Sketchers to attend - we are so grateful! (The agenda can be found here https://docs.google.com/document/d/15aBMch61oV4kfb8rB4hgk7qqfATeW2EKapBKcG5ugdM/mobilebasic)

Sunday, Oct 1 

Sketchers from  Toronto, Waterloo, Chicago, Michigan and Spain who had attended Shari's Saturday workshop met again on Sunday morning at the National Gallery of Canada and sketched for a couple of hours together before heading home.

And Brenda Murray, Waterloo urban sketcher and Urban Sketcher Managing Editor of "Drawing Attention", got to meet our Ottawa urban sketcher who holds the record for being our "Youngest Ottawa Urban Sketcher"

Brenda Murray and Ottawa Urban Sketchers youngest sketcher