My first day of reporting from workshops’ has been divided between 3 instructors all along Queen street.
Mario Linhares is based in front of a row of terraced Edwardian shops from 1908. The approach is my favorite, that of reportage. Mario found a drawing of the same row of houses made in 1989 by Don Donovan, a local illustrator, to underline the importance of drawing as a way of documenting the changes of a city.
On the upper part of Queen street Richard Briggs asked participants to be essential and use a simple line as he does in his beautiful and elegant drawings.
Further down on Queen street, Eleanor Doughty workshop is on how to use calligraphy pens, with bold lines and a simple wash behind.
Three totally different approaches in one morning and on one street!
And of course 45 different interpretations by each participants.
And of course 45 different interpretations by each participants.
*News and views from Auckland where I am the official sketchers correspondent with @tonymcneight at Urban Sketchers Symposium.
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