Meet the Instructor: Richard Alomar (New York, USA)

 

Richard Alomar
New York, USA

Richard Alomar is an assistant professor of Landscape Architecture at Rutgers University and founder of the Urban Field Studio in New York. He leads weekly on-location sketch crawls and workshops for New York City Urban Sketchers and uses the sketchbook to document place, time, movement and thoughts on the relationship between people and urban space. His research focuses on practical applications to global climate changes. He holds a B.S. in agronomy from the University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez and a Masters in Landscape Architecture from Louisiana State University. He is a registered landscape architect in New York.

Blogs: http://the-landscape.blogspot.com and http://nycsketch.blogspot.com/

Workshop G: Sketching Urban Place: People, Space and Street

Meet the Instructor: Josu Maroto (Donostia, SPAIN)

Josu Maroto
Donostia, SPAIN

Graduated in architecture at the University of the Basque Country, and master in conservation and restoration of historic and artistic heritage. Nowadays he works as architect at the historic and artistic heritage department of the Government of Gipuzkoa (Basque Country, Spain). He is also professor of graphic expression at the University of the Basque Country and collaborates with the local weekly paper Goiberri as illustrator.

Blog: http://josumaroto.blogspot.com.es/
Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/josumaroto/

Demo C: Digital Urban Sketching

Meet the Instructor: Mónica Cid (Lisbon , PORTUGAL)

Mónica Cid
Lisbon, PORTUGAL

Graduated in architecture in the Universidade Técnica de Lisboa, Faculdade de Arquitectura; and master in fine arts from the University of Newcastle in England. Currently developing artwork and teaching drawing at SNBA in Lisbon.

Blog: http://monicacidcadernos.blogspot.com

Demo C: Digital Urban Sketching

Meet the Instructor: Kiah Kiean (Penang, MALAYSIA)

Ch’ng Kiah Kiean
Penang, MALAYSIA

Born 1974 in George Town, Penang. He was trained in architecture from Universiti Sains Malaysia and loves art, design and photography. He is a blog correspondent of Urban Sketchers and also one of the administrator of Urban Sketchers Penang. He published Sketchers of Pulo Pinang in 2009 and Line-line Journey in 2011. Find out more of his work at http://www.kiahkiean.com

Blog: http://kiahkiean.com/artblog/
Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/kiahkiean/

Demo B: Sketching with Dry Twig and Chinese Ink

Meet the Instructor: Choni Naudín (Zaragoza, SPAIN)

 

Choni Naudín
Zaragoza, SPAIN


Graduated in Graphic Design at the School of Arts in Zaragoza, her expertise in the world of bookbinding began in 1998 when she was offered a fellowship in Urbino, Italy. Since then she has continued her training, learning many different techniques in workshops of globally recognized professionals. For the past eight years, has her own workshop located in Zaragoza.

Blog: http://
www.choninaudin.com
Web: http://www.estudioductus.com

Demo A: How to Make a Sketchbook

Meet the Instructor: Marion Rivolier (Paris, FRANCE)

 

Marion Rivolier
Paris, FRANCE

Marion Rivolier is a scenographer and fine artist living and working in Paris, France. She is the head of the sketching program for second-year students at the École d'architecture de la ville et des territoires à Marne-la-Vallée. Her work includes public and private exhibition and theater design.

For ten years now, she has also been drawing and painting watercolors outdoors, notably during her travels to places that include Russia, Berlin and New York. This work is complemented in the studio, where she is currently focusing on the human figure and color. Marion received her degree in scenography in 2000 from the Ecole Nationale supérieure des arts décoratifs in Paris. She is an active contributor to the Urban Sketchers Paris blog.

Blog: http://marionrivolier.blogspot.fr/
Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/marion1975/

Workshop T: Capturing Space Through Form and Color

Meet the Instructor: Omar Jaramillo (Berlin, GERMANY)

Omar Jaramillo

Berlin, GERMANY

Omar’s passion for traveling and story-telling is reflected by his drawings. The Ecuador born artist moved to Germany to complete his Master Degree in Architecture. His work at a landscape architecture firm later led him to spend some years in Italy, Oman and the UAE. Omar has started expressing his experiences, using mostly watercolors, as a way to explore his constant changing environments. In 2011 he was invited for 2 months to Hanover Opera House as an artist in residency to document through his sketches the Ballet rehearsals. He joined Urban Sketchers in 2008. He is a correspondent to the International USk Blog, Berlin USk Blog, and recently co-founded the Urban Sketchers Germany Blog. Since 2011 Omar has been based in Berlin where he works full time as an artist, illustrator and graphic recorder for advertising agencies. 


Blog: http://omar-paint.blogspot.com
Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/omarpaint 


Workshop S: Negative Forms as First Structures and Minimal Storytelling

Meet the Instructor: João Catarino (Lisbon, PORTUGAL)

João Catarino
Lisbon, PORTUGAL

Born in Lisbon, 1965. Degree in Communication Design FBAUL (Faculdade de Belas Artes da Universidade de Lisboa). Teacher in Ar.Co of Drawing and Design, teacher of Illustration in the CIEAM of FBAUL and teacher of Typography in ESAD-CR. Participates in exhibitions, talks, workshops and meetings on the sketchbooks theme. Author of the travel book illustrated “EN2”, an old country road in Portugal, and co-author of the travel book illustrated “Tanto Mar”, a route from north to south along the coast of Portugal.

Blog: http://desenhosdodia.blogspot.com

Workshop S: Negative Forms as First Structures and Minimal Storytelling

Meet the Instructor: Matthew Brehm (Idaho, USA)

Matthew Brehm
Idaho, USA

Matthew Brehm first studied architecture at the University of Notre Dame, and holds a Master of Architecture degree from the University of Oregon. He is currently an Associate Professor of Architecture at the University of Idaho, where his teaching responsibilities include design studios, graphics courses, and an annual two-month study abroad program in Rome, Italy, that he initiated in 2007. Matt received the University’s 2010 Hoffman Award for Excellence in Teaching, and his sketches have been recognized with awards on three occasions in the Design Communication Association’s Biannual Juried Drawing Exhibit. He was involved as a Board Member in the founding of the Urban Sketchers non-profit organization in 2009, and presented workshops and lectures at the group’s first two symposia in Portland, OR, and Lisbon, Portugal. Matt recently published his first book, “Sketching on Location,” a comprehensive guide to drawing from direct observation.

Blog: http://www.brehmsketch.blogspot.com
Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/mtbrehm/

Workshop R: Sketching Barcelona: Setup, Value, and Beyond

Meet the Instructor: Virginia Hein (Los Angeles, USA)

 

Virginia Hein
Los Angeles, USA

Virginia Hein was born in Los Angeles, California, and the landscape of the city and surrounding area continue to be her favorite subject. She received her MFA in Drawing and Painting from California State University, Long Beach. She has worked as a concept designer of toys and other products for many years, as well as art director, illustrator and fine artist. Currently she teaches drawing and design at Otis College of Art and Design in Los Angeles, as well as location sketching workshops. She contributes regularly to the international Urban Sketchers blog.

Blog: http://www.worksinprogress-location.blogspot.com
Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/virginiaworksonlocation/

Workshop Q: Panorama in Light and Shade

Meet the Instructor: Tia Boon Sim (SINGAPORE)

Tia Boon Sim
SINGAPORE

TIA, as she is affectionately called, grew up in Singapore. In her youth, she was tutored by the local art pioneer, the late Mr Liu Kang. TIA graduated from School of Architecture, University of Singapore and is a local registered architect. TIA received a scholarship to study the Master of Science programme in Art and Design Education at Pratt Institute in New York and in Feb 2003, she returned to Singapore and continued to teach at the School of Design after bagging the prestigious Pratt Circle Award for the Outstanding Academic Achievement. In 2011, her paintings were made into stamps and first day covers to commemorate the Singapore National Day. In that same year, TIA became the independent publisher for the book “Urban Sketchers Singapore” with a grant from Urban Redevelopment Authority. Currently, TIA oversees two Diplomas at the School of Design, Temasek Polytechnic where her artwork of the campus was presented by the institution as a gift to the Prime Minister of Singapore in Nov 2012. TIA joined Urban Sketchers in 2008 and is the Founder of Urban Sketchers Singapore in 2009.

Blog : http://tiastudio.blogspot.com/
Flickr : http://www.flickr.com/photos/tia_studio

Workshop P: Drawing from the Heart and over Color Splashes

Meet the Instructor: Paul Wang (SINGAPORE)

Paul Wang
SINGAPORE

Paul has loved art since he was a child and he is now actively sharing this passion as an art and design educator both in Singapore and abroad. After finishing his Interior Architecture Design studies at Temasek Polytechnic in Singapore, he clinched an arts bursary to pursue a Technical Theatre design course in Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane, Australia. His multi-disciplinary and multi-sensory training can be seen in all his colourful and dramatic sketches and paintings. In addition to a regular lecturing schedule, he actively provides architectural & theatrical lighting design services, serves as an Urbansketchers Board member and still finds time to teach numerous yoga classes a week.

Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/fireflyworkshop
Blog: http://www.fireflyworkshop.blogspot.sg/

Workshop P: Drawing from the Heart and over Color Splashes

Meet the Instructor: Barry Jackson (London, UK)

Barry Jackson
London, UK

After graduating from the Royal College of Art a long time ago, Barry Jackson worked in publishing as a graphic designer and illustrator in the 1970s, but gradually became more involved in teaching. He taught design at several major UK universities and colleges, before his interest in design was overtaken by an interest in how people learn, leading eventually to a full-time role in the strategic development of learning and teaching in UK Higher Education. Every now and again he would find time to draw or try to make paintings. Since retiring from his full-time post as a university Pro Vice-chancellor he has found a lot more time to learn to draw, make occasional paintings, and develop his fine-art printmaking. He has been a London correspondent for USK since the blog’s beginning and is one of the founders of USk London.

Website: www.idrisjackson.co.uk
Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/barryj/collections/72157607738519753/

Workshop O: Hither, Thither and Yon

Meet the Instructor: Marc Taro Holmes (Montreal, CANADA)

Marc Taro Holmes
Montreal, CANADA

Marc Taro Holmes works as a conceptual artist in the video games industry. He received his BFA from the Alberta College of Art and Design in 1995, going on to projects such as Lord of the Rings Online, Age of Empires and Dragon Age.

Marc serves on the USK board, and is a blog correspondant from Montreal, Quebec where he helps organize USK:MTL's monthly sketchcrawls. He has taught USK workshops in Lisbon, Santo Domingo, and Portland.

He is the illustrator of the kindle edition of the novel ìResurrection Manî with author Sean Stewart, has exhibited with the Canadian Society of Painters in Watercolor, has painted with Montrealís En Masse art collective, and recently completed the solo show, ìLive Theater ñ Live Artî at the Centaur Theater in Montreal.

Blog: http://citizensketcher.wordpress.com/ 

Workshop N: Drawing People in Action: A Character Sketching Crash Course

Meet the Instructor: Shari Blaukopf (Montreal, CANADA)

Shari Blaukopf
Montreal, Canada

Shari Blaukopf is a Montreal-based graphic designer, teacher, illustrator and daily sketch blogger. She has a BFA from Concordia University with a specialization in graphic design but her true love has always been watercolor painting. In fact, she began taking workshops at the age of 12 and has subsequently painted and drawn her way across several European countries and parts of North America. She is co-founder of the Urban Sketchers Montreal regional blog and has given many watercolor workshops including one with Marc Taro Holmes in Portland, Oregon through the USK Workshop Program. She grew up and still lives in Montreal, where she continues to discover neighborhoods in her quest to find the best streets and back alleys to sketch.

Blog: www.shariblaukopf.com
Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/70010386@N08/ 

Workshop M: Triad Symphony: Evocative Watercolor Sketches Using Three Primary Colors

Meet the Instructor: Lynne Chapman (Sheffield, UK)

Lynne Chapman
Sheffield, North Yorkshire, UK

Lynne is an award-winning, children’s book illustrator, with over 30 published books and a BAHons in Printed Textiles from Middlesex University in London. Lynne runs Sketchcrawl North, a very active USK group, who meet monthly. She enjoys pushing the SketchCrawl boundaries, with events like Tour de Sketch and Mad Hatter’s Tea Party. Lynne has lectured in drawing and illustration at both the Sheffield College and Hallam University, but for the last 12 years, has been travelling the UK (on the train, sketching fellow travellers as she goes), giving lectures and workshops for festivals and schools, inspiring both adults and children to have fun with drawing. She is a compulsive sketcher and her sketchbooks are her most treasured possessions. 

Website: http://www.lynnechapman.co.uk
Blog: http://lynnechapman.blogspot.com
Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/lynnechapman/

Workshop L: Sketches that Sing: Creating Sketches with a Life of their Own

Meet the Instructor: Marina Grechanik (Ra'anana, ISRAEL)

 

Marina Grechanik
Ra'anana, ISRAEL

Marina Grechanik was born in Belorussia and graduated from an art academy in Minsk. She now lives in Israel and has been working as a freelance illustrator and graphic designer for the last 15 years. Marina regularly takes part in local art and illustration exhibitions and projects. She is a correspondent for USk’s international blog, and founded USk Israel - regularly leading sketchcrawls and coordinating the Urban Sketchers Israel blog. Marina also planned and taught several urban sketching workshops for children.

Sketching is one of Marina’s passions. Everywhere she travels, she takes her sketchbook along with her. But the real essence of urban sketching for her is finding stories in everyday routines, and combining sketching with daily tasks like taking care of her children, working, or running errands. “A sketchbook and a simple pen – that is all you need to go on a journey every day. Drawing is seeing, so you just need to open your eyes wider and start to sketch!”

Blog: http://marinagrechanik.blogspot.co.il/
Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/marin71/

Workshop K: Urban Life: Describing City Spaces Through the Life Lived There.

Meet the Instructor: Ea Ejersbo (Aarhus, DENMARK)

Ea Ejersbo
Aarhus, DENMARK

Ea Ejersbo is an artist and printmaker based in Aarhus, Denmark since 1993. She grew up in various locations around Denmark and Tanzania, has a background in Fine Arts, and is an experienced planner and runner of drawing workshops. She currently works for Gøglerskolen School of Street Circus as a project and management secretary.

Ea was a member of the founding Board of Directors of the Urban Sketchers non-profit organisation, and is a correspondent since 2008. Her drawing practice centers around daily sketchbook drawings, which she shares on her blog. Subjects reign from travel sketches, commuter drawings, concert and cafe sketches, to daily life and endless cups of tea, and you can find a selection in Gabriel Campanario’s book: The Art of Urban Sketching.

Ea uses a variety of drawing materials and expressions in her sketchbooks. For the past year the combination of watercolour and watercolour pencils has been one of her main explorations.

Blog: http://tegneblog.blogspot.com/
Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/vanadisa/collections/72157604011056309/

Workshop K: Urban Life: Describing City Spaces Through the Life Lived There

Meet the Instructor: Arno Hartmann (Cologne, GERMANY)

Arno Hartmann
Cologne, GERMANY

Arno Hartmann (Cologne, Germany) is a graduate in Architecture from the Faculty of Architecture and Urban Planning of the University of Siegen (Germany). He was an independent architect with »LHVH Architekten« (Cologne/Germany), before he started as a freelance graphic artist and web designer in 2005. Since 2009 he's an instructor for perspective drawing at the »Summer Academy Harz«, Germany. He mainly draws historical architecture in cities in and around Central Europe, and is member of Urban Sketchers Germany.

Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/namtra/
Website: http://www.arnohartmann.de/

Workshop J: Barcelona Perspectives: Percepting and drawing Architecture

Meet the Instructor: Florian Afflerbach (Siegen, GERMANY)

Florian Afflerbach
Siegen, GERMANY

Florian Afflerbach studied architecture in Siegen, Cottbus and Paris and worked for over three years in an architect’s office in Stuttgart. He teached drawing at the University of Stuttgart, at the 2nd Urban Sketchers Symposium in Lisbon and as a freelance teacher. He holds a master degree in architectural communication and interpretation. Since 2007, his work has been part of exhibits and publications. From February 2013, he will work as an assistant professor in architectural display and spatial design. 

Flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/flaf/
Website: http://www.flaf.de

Workshop J: Barcelona Perspectives: Percepting and drawing Architecture