Urban Landscape: Sketching with Watercolor Class (video)
You don’t need to travel in order to explore! We look at how to use watercolor to sketch an urban environment in a simple and fast way without perspective knowledge….
Figure Drawing Class: Venus with Biceps (video)
The representation of women’s strength in art and in contemporary media. During this figure drawing class we challenge classical perceptions of what form a woman should take. We start with…
Interview with Ali Fitzgerald: artist, comics creator and graphic novelist
I interviewed Ali on her return to Berlin from her residency in France. I was curious about her personal relationship with her visual storytelling, how she brings together the written…
Bestiarium: from science to fantasy
The history of drawing animals and inventing fantasy creatures is intrinsically intertwined. Albrecht Dürer’s rhinoceros for example, famously drawn from a written description of the animal and not from sight,…
Sketchbook Practice 2020 – A Virtual Exhibition
Visit out virtual gallery and take a look at some of the works that our students made during the workshop in the last year.
Figure Up Exhibition at BcmA: Exploring Figurative Art
“The drawings are representational, descriptive and the emphasis is on the figure. Referencing film, novels, popular music, fashion, cartoons, and contemporary forms of social media…”
Custom | Drawing | Featured | Mixed media
Drawing Monsters: an exploration of the shadow
Artists throughout history have used monsters and mythological creatures to explore their inner worlds and experiment in a free and expressive way. by Heidy Weingartner Monsters have been popular mythical…
Custom | Drawing | Featured | Mixed media | Printmaking
Drawing the City of Berlin at Berlinische Galerie
The exhibition at Berlinische Galerie displays a special selection of more than 175 paper-based works portraying the city of Berlin from 1945 to today. by Heidy Weingartner The Berlin Drawing…
Drawing and Painting with Ink
Ink is an incredibly versatile medium used for drawing, painting and writing. We will be diving into the ink pool during our upcoming module of the Sketchbook Practice Workshop learning…
Drawing ourselves out of our shells
A testimonial from a reluctant online student: The class hours flew by so quickly and the experience gave me the momentum to dig out my desk making it usable again and not merely the repository for every random paper that enters my apartment. In short, the class is giving me motivation to rejoin the world outside my kitchen!