Urban Sketchers London 10 Year Celebration 23 and  24 July 2022

There are 7 different workshops on offer.
Most of the workshops are offered twice so you have a chance to take one or two workshops during the event.  

Saturday 23 Morning workshop options:  
please choose a maximum of one option for this morning workshop

Morning workshops attendees all gather at our Event Hub:
TP Bennett offices: 1 America Street, London SE1 0NE

Please arrive from 09:00 for a 09:30 am start to walk to the workshop location nearby.
Workshops run 9:30 to 12:30

Workshop 1:  Gabi Campanario - London in your Pocket Sketchbook
To become a fearless and prolific urban sketcher, there’s nothing like drawing on a pocket sketchbook to fuel your motivation. A small, easy-to-carry notebook makes sketching less intimidating and is ideal to create fast drawings on the go -- and without calling too much attention from onlookers (Hello, shy sketchers!). Workshop lessons will include how to fit wide scenes into the seemingly small sketchbook spreads, how to use ink washes to add tonal value and how to incorporate written narrative into the pages.

Workshop 2: Mario Linhares - Folding Pages, Unfolding Drawings
How is a drawing deeply related to the previous and the next one? In this workshop, we will combine three sketches in a dynamic way by folding just one page and creating three drawings that will be like Siamese brothers: one will not go without the other. All this while we walk in the river Thames direction using watercolour, pen, and pencil.

Workshop 3: Lis Watkins - Near and Far
Want to add depth and distance to your urban sketches? We’ll work together to complete a series of practical exercises, culminating in an independent sketch. I’ll demonstrate techniques drawing on tonal values, line quality and compositional elements, with time and opportunity for questions and feedback.

Workshop 4 - Simone Ridyard - Figuring out Perspective on busy London Streets
This is an energetic and lively workshop focusing on the basic principles of one-point perspective through demonstrations, tips, techniques and exercises. Aimed primarily at beginners but structured in such a way to be a good refresher workshop for more experienced sketchers.

Saturday 23 Afternoon workshop options:
please choose a maximum one option for this afternoon workshop

Afternoon workshops attendees all gather at our Event Hub:
TP Bennett offices: 1 America Street, London SE1 0NE

Please arrive from 14:00 for a 14:30 am start to walk to the workshop location nearby.
Workshops run 14:30 to 17:30

Workshop 3: Lis Watkins - Near and Far
Want to add depth and distance to your urban sketches? We’ll work together to complete a series of practical exercises, culminating in an independent sketch. I’ll demonstrate techniques drawing on tonal values, line quality and compositional elements, with time and opportunity for questions and feedback.

Workshop 4 - Simone Ridyard - Figuring out Perspective on busy London Streets
This is an energetic and lively workshop focusing on the basic principles of one-point perspective through demonstrations, tips, techniques and exercises. Aimed primarily at beginners but structured in such a way to be a good refresher workshop for more experienced sketchers.

Workshop 5 - Adebanji Alade - Drawing People on a busy location
This workshop is a very dynamic hands on exercise on how to capture crowds of people in a busy area.  The focus will be on capturing single figures either standing or sitting, capturing moving figures, and filling up a scene with moving and stationary figures. We will use angles to quickly get the gestures. We’ll also explore organic lines and ghosting techniques for crowds. We will use coloured pencils, TomBow Dual pens and ball point pens.

You can bring any medium you are comfortable using with a sketchbook to be filled up for this workshop.
It’s really for anyone who wants to loosen up and gain a rapid habit for sketching figures in their work.

Workshop 6 - Len Grant - Absolute beginner's guide to Urban Sketching
A gentle step-by-step approach to putting pen to paper and building up the courage to capture the urban scene.
The workshop starts with a short presentation and a preview of the day’s activities.
Then we hit the streets for a series of demos and group exercises. You’ll soon be hooked.

Sunday 24 Morning workshop options:
please choose a maximum of one option for this morning workshop

Morning workshops attendees all gather at our Event Hub:
TP Bennett offices: 1 America Street, London SE1 0NE

Please arrive from 09:00 for a 09:30 am start to walk to the workshop location nearby.
Workshops run 9:30 to 12:30

Workshop 1: Gabi Campanario - London in your Pocket Sketchbook
To become a fearless and prolific urban sketcher, there’s nothing like drawing on a pocket sketchbook to fuel your motivation. A small, easy-to-carry notebook makes sketching less intimidating and is ideal to create fast drawings on the go -- and without calling too much attention from onlookers (Hello, shy sketchers!). Workshop lessons will include how to fit wide scenes into the seemingly small sketchbook spreads, how to use ink washes to add tonal value and how to incorporate written narrative into the pages.

Workshop 2: Mario Linhares - Folding Pages, Unfolding Drawings
How is a drawing deeply related to the previous and the next one? In this workshop, we will combine three sketches in a dynamic way by folding just one page and creating three drawings that will be like Siamese brothers: one will not go without the other. All this while we walk in the river Thames direction using watercolour, pen, and pencil.

Workshop 6: Len Grant - Absolute Beginner's Guide to Urban Sketching
A gentle step-by-step approach to putting pen to paper and building up the courage to capture the urban scene.
The workshop starts with a short presentation and a preview of the day’s activities.
Then we hit the streets for a series of demos and group exercises. You’ll soon be hooked.

Workshop 7 - George Butler - Unfolding Scenes
In this workshop George  will lead us to one of the South London markets near his studio. It will be a chance to stand on street corners and watch – the people, the colours and life of the community market and record the scenes. This is designed for all abilities and none - the purpose is not to create finished pieces but to use it as a tool to observe, make memories and tell stories.

Our Cancellation Policy

• For all tickets sales there is a non-refundable transaction fee.
• If you cancel more than six weeks before the event, we would refund the full price of your ticket.
• If you cancel between six and two weeks before, the cancellation fee is £35. We would retain that fee and refund the remainder of the ticket price.
• If Urban Sketchers London is forced to cancel and event - for example, if there are not enough participants, or if government health advice means it's not wise to stage the event, we would refund the price of the ticket, minus the transaction fee.