Fall 2019 Week 1: Sketching with the Brush: Learning how to see with a Beginners Mind

Fall 2019 Week 1: Sketching with the Brush: Learning how to see with a Beginners Mind

Essential Video Tutorials

• Sketching with the Brush by Marc Taro Holmes
• Watercolour Camels by Trevor Waugh
• How to Splash Watercolour by Trevor Waugh

Essential PDFs

• An Exercise in Direct Sketching: The Broken Silhouette PDF

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If You Would Like to Learn About Marc Taro Holmes ...

Marc Taro Holmes is a Montreal artist and the author of three books on art-making.

• The Urban Sketcher: Techniques for Seeing and Drawing on Location (2014)
• Designing Creatures and Characters: How to Build and Artist’s Portfolio for Video Games, Film, Animation and More (2016)
• Direct Watercolor (2018)

Marc has been a correspondent and volunteer art instructor with urbansketchers.org, and, served as a board member and volunteer editor from 2009-2016. He was elected to the Canadian Society of Painters in Watercolor in December of 2016, recently winning their Sloan Award (2016), and CSPWC Second Prize Award (2017), and most recently, being juried into an exhibition-exchange with the Société Française de l’Aquarelle. (2018).

Marc graduated in 1995 with a BFA from the Alberta College of Art and Design in Calgary Alberta, and has worked for studios including Electronic Arts, Microsoft, and Disney.

Website

• Citizensketcher (Marc's Website)

Book Review of Marc's first Book

• The Urban Sketcher: Techniques for Seeing and Drawing on Location. Reviewed by Teoh Yi Chie