Cityscapes

Welcome to the space that I have created for our course 'Creative Drawing & Painting: Cityscapes' where I will be sharing with you some of the resources and activities of our course. Enjoy!!!

CLASS 1: Initial exercise (28/09/17)

CLASS 2: Sketching outdoors (Shrewsbury's town centre)  (05/10/17)

CLASS 3: Monochrome/Colour group project - Dry media (12/10/17)

CLASS 4: Developing your imagination (19/10/17)

Musical experiment:

·       Listen to this piece of music. (Click to listen here) While listening, try to imagine the type of cityscape you would associate it with, the colours, the atmosphere, etc. Then, listen again and sketch what you have imagined.

Using literature to find inspiration and develop your imagination:

Fragment from ‘Hard Times’, by Charles Dickens (Click here to read)

Examples of imaginative works by other artists:

                                                                                              Clare Caulfield

                                                                                        Geoffrey Johnson

                                                                          Joseph Zbucvic

                                                                                               Paul Balmer

                                                                          Peter Graham Roi

                                                                                    Vladimir Kush

                                                                                            Vytautas Laisonas

CLASSES 4, 5 & 6: Most influential cityscape artists
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Other presentations made by the learners
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THANK YOU VERY MUCH!!!

It's been a great experience to meet all of you and teach this course on 'Creative Drawing and Painting: Cityscapes'. Thanks for these 6 weeks of talent and passion and hopefully I will see you again very soon this year!