Urban Sketching Symposium - Santo Domingo Day 2

Saturday, July 14, 2012

Began the second day with the workshop "Improvising with Lines and Colors." We were given the task of playing with lines, colors, perspective and text.

Started off with a sketch of the Parque Colon using some distortion and limited colors.

USK: Parque Colon, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic

Then, I saw some men playing checkers (damas) so I sketched them with warm and cool colored pencils. Can you feel the heat of the game in the air?

USK: Checkers players at the Parque Colon, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic

I also did a quick sketch of the square at the very end of the workshop:

USK: Parque Colon, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic

The afternoon session was "Color Games." We started off using a warm color line and cool color line to draw the same scene, paying attention to how the colors we chose to color them in varied:

USK: Near Plaza Espana, using warm colored line, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic

USK: Near Plaza Espana, using cool colored line, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic

Next we were asked to sketch the same scene using regular and then unnatural colors (that threatening sky did open up for a few minutes, but the showers stopped pretty quickly):

USK: Near Plaza Espana, regular colors, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic

USK: Near Plaza Espana, crazy colors, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic

For the last exercise, we paired off, drew something, and handed it to our partner to color in!

Here's my drawing of BJ, colored by her:

USK: Portrait swap - BJ, drawn by Suma, painted by BJ, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic

And here's BJ's drawing of me, colored by me:

USK: Portrait swap - Suma, drawn by BJ, painted by Suma, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic

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