Inma Serrano is a Seville-based artist and Art teacher. She holds a degree in Fine Arts from the University of Seville. Her passion for sketching has led her to create numerous illustrated travel journals and reports on her surroundings, some of which have been shown in exhibitions and published in other works and journals.
For the past fifteen years she has been involved in the area of Art Education and has taught courses in Creating Drawing, Photography and Painting.
As an illustrator she has collaborated with newspaper and magazines as Le Monde Diplomatique, El Topo, Mercurio and has illustrated some books too.
She has participated in national and international exhibitions related to travel sketchbook and graphic diary, which is her main interest. She has been instructor in sketching workshops for Urban Sketchers International Symposiums in Santo Domingo (2012) Barcelona (2013) Singapour (2015) and Porto (2018). She also has lead many sketching workshops in other European cities as Lisbon, Zaragoza, Newbury, Málaga, Rotterdam, Galway or Barcelona. She says she needs sketching and drawing to understand her life and to be happy.

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Language skills: Spanish, English

The rhythm of Basel

This urban sketching workshop will focus on incorporating the city’s rhythm and movement into drawings that are highly dynamic and urban in character.
Urban sketching, like swing dancing, starts with a fixed musical score but then gradually introduces new notes inviting us to improvise, engage our imagination, and discover new ways of sketching. This adaptability is a powerful tool in sketching when everything can change in a second.
Participants will learn to capture the calmness as well as the movement offered by the beautiful city of Basel. They will learn ways to adapt to the ever-changing aspects of the city: from calm and quiet to messy and chaotic.

Materials:

• Mixed-media sketchbook
• Line drawing tools: pencils, pens, markers of various thicknesses, fountain pens
• Brush pens with colored inks or liquid watercolours
• Bigger brush (for large coloured areas)
• Colouring media: wax crayons, watercolour, colour pencils (water-soluble and waterproof)