San José, USA
Uma Kelkar
Uma Kelkar, was born and brought up in Pune, India but has called San Jose home for the past 20 years. She is a watercolor painter, urban sketcher who also sketches in ink, gouache and on the iPad. She has taught at Urban Sketchers International Symposia (2017, 2018, 2019), Chicago Seminar in 2018 and USk Swiss Symposium 2022. She is the author of Urban Sketching book for the iPad. She strongly believes in cross-pollination and borrowing ideas from various fields to improve sketching. She volunteered as Secretary on the Executive Board of Urban Sketchers from Aug 2019 to July 2022. Her art stats are as follows:
- Exhibited locally and internationally with 37 awards and shows. -Signature memberships from CWA, NWS and CSPWC.
- Taught 45+ workshops worldwide
- 2 solo authored books and 6 contributing author books
- 25+ lectures and demonstrations
When Uma is not teaching art or engaging in making art, she is Founder-CEO of Vivify.ai, an AI startup that focuses on keeping humans in the creative loop and not replacing them.
She holds Master of Science (EE) from Stanford University and Bachelor of Engineering from Pune University, India.
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Workshop Language: English
There is a thrill in capturing the chaos of busy scenes with the least variety of strokes. It makes the sketch look effortless but it takes practice of seeing rhythms in chaos and mastery of at least one paint brush. This workshop gives you eyes and a pathway to mastering how to fit every scene in a combo of repeat brushstrokes.
Key skills:
Workshop participants will sketch near the pier full of parked sail boats and capture the beautiful chaos in direct watercolor. They will be able to do that because they will learn to:
- See common repeating shapes
- Use a square/dagger/mop brush to make a string of repeating patterns
Suggested material:
- Watercolor sketchbook
- Pencil and Markers
- Brushes: At least brushes with 2 different brush shapes: Square, Dagger or Round
- Tubes of watercolor
- Stool
