City Sketching with Gavin Snider

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5 ай бұрын

This is a recording of our Live Demo, City Sketching with Gavin Snider!
In this demo, Gavin focused on sketching the quintessential architecture of Brooklyn, specifically the brownstone. He demonstrated how he builds up a watercolor painting from the blank page, “carving out” the painting with increasing levels of detail. Learn about composition using negative space, applying light and shadow, and approaching architectural and landscape elements in a painting.
Gavin Snider lives and works in Brooklyn, New York, where he paints to slow down the world and draws to better understand the places and people around him. With a background in architecture, much of Gavin’s work focuses on buildings and cityscapes. A few times a week, he picks a location-whether a famous landmark or an unfamiliar neighborhood-packs up a notebook, and goes to paint. In a way, his paintings are a form of urbanism, the study of city life.
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Here is the image we painted: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/byjpwd...
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@awatercolourist 4 ай бұрын

19:38 I like how he sees his white page as a slab of marble. I thought of looking at my page like that.

@user-zi2sm8cm6d 5 ай бұрын

Really enjoyed this! I took a trip to Europe last fall and took lots of pictures of the buildings and iconic sites. Now I am starting to capture it all in a journal of my trip, but have never really done buildings in watercolor. This demo gave me lots of ideas to keep it loose and not overdo the details. Thank you so much.

@arttoolkit 4 ай бұрын

Oh, that's so wonderful to hear, and we're so happy you were inspired!

@Louvre2012 5 ай бұрын

Fantastic! Thank you so much for these weekly live demos. Appreciate the positive vibe and encouragement.

@arttoolkit 5 ай бұрын

Thank you! We love inspiring the community and sharing different ways to approach art and watercolor -- thank you for tuning in!

@moonchaserstudio 5 ай бұрын

This was so good! I was so absorbed in his work that I didn’t even paint along! Lol Gonna go give it a try! Thanks Gavin!

@arttoolkit 5 ай бұрын

Gavin is amazing! Thank you so much for joining us today, and happy painting!

@janahoffman5291 5 ай бұрын

I am floored watching Gavin dip his brush back into the water and back into the paint over and over and over. It is so different from the way I paint. I keep wondering what is that exact consistency that he is searching for with the constant re-dipping? Fascinating.