Details for "Sketching on the Spot with Bob Altwein"
Date: Sat Sept 21
Time: 10 am to 4 pm with 1/2 hour for lunch, so bring a lunch.
Please arrive 15 min early to get settled in.
Bring an apron to protect clothes in case you want to apply some paint to your sketch.
Coffee, tea and light snacks will be provided.
Location: South Delta Artists Guild's Workroom
Level of Difficulty: Intermediates or beginners with a basic understanding of sketching.
Workshop Description:
Sketching-on-the spot is like a portal and opportunity, offering a range of mark making from gestural to detailed representation. Our sketch journey makes us curious, evokes solitude and encourages mindfulness. Sketching can also provoke engagement with other artists or strangers. Our sketch practice can get us closer to our materials. Sketching-on-the spot can include still life, travel sketches, social reportage (like during the COVID period), portraits, self portraits, botanical or garden themes, landscapes/seascape, urban scenes, cafes, malls, street life, food, pets, household objects and don’t hesitate to encroach into abstraction too.
Depending on the weather, you can sketch indoors or outside. As a back up, please consider bringing your own subject matter to work with. They could be objects or things, from the utterly commonplace to the positively intriguing, that are portable, safe and not messy. If you wish to add collage to your sketches, photos, magazine/book pages, tickets, stamps, documents or all useful as ephemera (things used for a short time) or memorabilia. Scissors and a glue stick too.
The Power of Prompts: Let’s consider applying elements and principles, from the prompts that will be touched on, that can enhance our sketch practice, including the rule of thirds, composition in general, texture, pattern, monotone, collage, etc.
About the Instructor: Bob Altwein
Throughout my working life, I was a graphic designer, but my sketch practice actually goes back to high school days and the four years in art school. In my 20s I worked abroad for VW Styling in Wolfsburg, West German, but otherwise locally at UBC and VCC.
With retirement I have found a renewed passion with sketching. Since 2012 I have travelled in Western Canada and the USA as well as to Southeast Asia, Iceland, Romania, Germany, France and Ukraine. Metro Vancouver however has rich subject matter too. Also, I have participated in an artist residency, for two weeks in 2017. This was thanks to the Wallace Stegner House/Eastend Arts Council, in Saskatchewan. COVID provided the opportunity to pursue social reportage, brought on by the inherent isolation, to adapt by doing portraits of friends and acquaintances, for example, here and overseas, via online video.
Apart from leading workshops on Salt Spring Island and locally, I have also given demos for Opus Art Supplies. Finally, I’m also one of the co-organizers with the Vancouver Urban Sketchers Meetup, hosting for this community group.
Cancellation Policy
It is the responsibility of the student signing up for a workshop to read, understand and agree to this policy. There are NO exceptions to this policy. Notification of withdrawal must be made by first contacting the Workshop Facilitator, by email. Your request will be acknowledged by email reply.
Up to two weeks prior to the first day of classes, a 20% administration fee will apply on any and all student-initiated withdrawals, i.e., your full tuition refund will be reduced by this amount. No refunds under any circumstances are allowed thereafter unless the class is full and your space can be easily filled from our waiting list. If we can not fill your space from our waiting list, you have the option of filling your own spot with someone else. The workshop facilitator must be notified when this option is chosen. (Note: On an exception basis, the refund period may vary for certain workshops; this will be clearly written when it applies.)
The South Delta Artists Guild reserves the right to cancel any class or workshop for any reason and in this case a 100% refund will be given. Credit card transactions will be credited to your account, and all other refunds will be made by cheque.
Classes and workshops will proceed based on a minimum number of students registered. The South Delta Artists Guild reserves the right to substitute instructors, delete or change courses, or make any necessary changes to programs.
Partial refunds will not be given due to the inability of the student or of the instructor to attend classes. In the event that the instructor is unavailable, either an alternate or make-up days will be arranged.
Cost & Status
- CAN$80.00
- CAN$65.00 with Member Workshop $15 Discount