USA (Seattle)
Stephanie Bower
Based in Seattle, WA USA, Stephanie Bower is a professional architectural illustrator, university instructor, author, and globetrotting sketcher. Her background as an architect inspired her love of drawing buildings and her expertise in all things perspective. Stephanie teaches workshops online and around the world, including at six USk symposiums from Brazil to Taiwan. Stephanie was a blog correspondent for Urban Sketchers www.urbansketchers.org for 7 years. She is the author of 3 best-selling books, The Urban Sketching Handbook: Understanding Perspective and 101 Sketching Tips, with The World of Urban Sketching hitting bookstores in November 2022.
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Language skills: English, Spanish
Basel’s Old Town is full of picturesque squares and meandering streets, perfect for sketching. But how do you capture that vast, lovely scene onto your tiny sketchbook pages? Where do you start, and how do you find that darn vanishing point? Good sketches start with Good Bones! In this workshop, you’ll learn the three simple steps for setting up the foundation of any architectural sketch in perspective and watercolor. We’ll even look at how perspective works when old streets twist and turn. After this workshop, you’ll never fear perspective again—it’s easy when you know what to look for!
Material:
- small 5” x 8” (or A5 portrait) Watercolor sketchbook
- .5mm mechanical pencil with 2B lead and kneaded eraser
- your favorite watercolors and brushes (mine is the Escoda Perla Travel Brush) & water
- stool for sitting
- binder clips to hold your sketchbook pages in place
- small 30/60 architects triangle or small plastic ruler
