“Great intro to urban sketching. Learned loads and lots of practice with composing pictures, measuring, shading and using watercolours. Darren B A fabulous weekend for drawing outdoors on location – spectacular Manchester weather meant we were able to make the most of outdoor sketching in the heart of historical Ancoats surrounded by historical buildings and […]
“Fantastic experience. I learnt more than I would ever expect.” Oscar L We enjoyed wonderful weather this autumn so were able to get out and about around Ancoats and visit 3 different venues over the weekend. We enjoyed a good mix of students with different experiences and interests on this course which was great. I […]
“Definitely given me more confidence in tackling buildings.” Natalie C A fabulous weekend, thankfully with some good weather, to get out and about around Ancoats and draw some of the historic and more contemporary architecture. Whether a Victorian brick building that forms the fabric of Manchester’s architecture or contemporary housing – all buildings tell a […]
“A strong focus on technique so you can then work on that later to improve longer term as well.” Craig M A small group of students braved the wonderful mild early autumn weather and enjoyed a day and half of drawing outdoors around Ancoats. We enjoyed the atmosphere of sketching outdoors on Saturday afternoon, while […]
“It was an amazing experience. I have learnt so much.” Mara C It was wonderful to be outside drawing again. We always meet such colourful characters when drawing outside, which is one of the features of urban sketching! For those of you not quite confident enough in your sketching skills to put up with the […]
“I now want to draw buildings all the time, when previously I avoided them at all costs!” Heather M What a wonderful weekend sketching our urban environment on my Cityscapes: urban sketching course! The weather was extremely kind to us, so in contrast to the summer course, we drew outside on site, for almost the […]
“Covid-19 safety and Creativity combined!! What more could we ask for? Sue M Urban sketching in August sounds wonderful – sitting outdoors in the summer sunshine drawing our surroundings. Sadly that did not happen much during our summer urban sketching weekend course. The weather was awful! We managed to get outdoors for about 1 hour […]
A revelation! A course to learn different methods and then put into practice to understand how to create life-like urban scenes. Taylor W We were greeted by a clear, warm Saturday morning for the start of this weekend’s Cityscapes: urban sketching course. The students and I were thrilled at the prospect of getting outdoors to […]
“At the end I really felt confident and safe in knowledge I had learnt something”. Roger S My spring Urban sketching course took place last weekend with a fab group of 8 students. Mostly beginners but some with more drawing experience who were wanting to learn new techniques to use and brush up on their […]
“Gives one a lot of confidence to draw… you can see a difference in your own skill” Radhika M Enjoyed another wonderful weekend with 6 students on the urban sketching course. The weather held out well enough for us to get a lot of time outdoors drawing the local buildings around Ancoats. Bev thought the […]
Cityscapes: urban sketching course diary We had a small group of students brave enough to venture out into the outside elements after a really cold spell over the previous few weeks. The weather held out for us and we managed to get out to visit a few locations in Ancoats and New Islington during the […]
Cityscapes: urban sketching Diary: 22-23 Oct 2016 Discover what the students got up to during this course. The exercises, the experimentation, the finished drawings. This course gave students the opportunity learn from scrach, or re-inforce, their knowledge and understanding of using 2-point perspective. The course starts with perspective theory and then gives students the chance to put […]
A thoroughly enjoyable weekend of outdoor drawing, learning perspective and creating colourful collage images. We explored two styles of using collage and even made our own self-coloured tissue paper to use. This weekend’s group of students wanted to get 2 things from attending the course. Firstly, to brush up on their knowledge and skills in […]
The Cityscapes + aperture 2-day weekend course will focus on drawing in and around the grade 2 listed building that is our home – Hope Mill. Full of Victorian old world charm it provides inspiring views of buildings, new and old, from the many windows. This will be your inspiration for 2 days of collage […]
