Urban sketching - a street act
Pendharkar, Avanish
Urban sketching - a street act - Vol.88(4), Apr - Mumbai Arihant Publications 2023 - 102-107p.
Urban sketching, the art of capturing everyday
life in our surroundings, is like a street act, but a
little less dramatic. You scout the location, take
a few pictures, look for shade, and hope you
are not in the way of a vehicle that could knock
you over. Then you pull out your sketchbook to
draw, occasionally making small talk with the
street vendor, who at first tries to look over your
shoulder and then graciously allows you to set up
the full drawing kit the moment he realises that
you are about to draw, paint, and depict his view
of the world around him!
My sketches, as you see here, are pen and ink
sketches finished with watercolours. It allows me
to have black and white sketches, like an all-white
architectural study model, that I can look at to
see the story that the sketch could represent for a
place. The colours then add layers to help enhance
the drama—not only as a finished sketch as you see
here, but in the very act of using watercolours as a
medium that flows and blends into one another as
I paint through the black lines.
ARCHITECTURE GENERAL (AR-GEN)
Urban sketching - a street act - Vol.88(4), Apr - Mumbai Arihant Publications 2023 - 102-107p.
Urban sketching, the art of capturing everyday
life in our surroundings, is like a street act, but a
little less dramatic. You scout the location, take
a few pictures, look for shade, and hope you
are not in the way of a vehicle that could knock
you over. Then you pull out your sketchbook to
draw, occasionally making small talk with the
street vendor, who at first tries to look over your
shoulder and then graciously allows you to set up
the full drawing kit the moment he realises that
you are about to draw, paint, and depict his view
of the world around him!
My sketches, as you see here, are pen and ink
sketches finished with watercolours. It allows me
to have black and white sketches, like an all-white
architectural study model, that I can look at to
see the story that the sketch could represent for a
place. The colours then add layers to help enhance
the drama—not only as a finished sketch as you see
here, but in the very act of using watercolours as a
medium that flows and blends into one another as
I paint through the black lines.
ARCHITECTURE GENERAL (AR-GEN)