Sunday May 14 * 1-3pm * REGISTER

Urban sketching is the act of sketching on location in an urban area as a way of capturing a moment in time and deepening your experience of your surroundings. This course will help you get started with urban sketching, exploring basic drawing practices and psychological exercises to increase your creativity and artistic confidence. While we will be going over principles of drawing and perspective, this course is not about creating perfectly realistic drawings, and no drawing experience is needed. Instead, it is about the practice of capturing a feeling and the experience of being alive in a particular time and place. Developing a sketching practice can be an immensely spiritually rewarding and meditative experience, and sometimes the practice of sketching can be even more important than the final art you create. So please come with a sense of enthusiasm and you will get something out of this course no matter your experience!

Basic drawing and painting materials will be included with ticket purchase, but feel free to bring any additional sketchbooks or materials you want to experiment with.

Originally from Arizona, Annelisa drew her first creative inspiration from spending time outside and using her sketchbook to better connect with her environment. Annelisa received her bachelor's degree in painting from Yale University. She has also studied painting at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and the Corcoran School of the Arts and Design in Washington, DC. She has traveled to over 35 countries to take part in artistic projects, paint murals, and lead painting workshops. Annelisa has been working as a freelance artist for over a decade, and is currently an in-house illustrator for the science and philosophy website Big Think. She hopes to use art to help herself and others find a sense of adventure, wonder, and mystery in their everyday lives and experience the environment around them in a richer way. You can see some of her personal work at annelisaleinbach.com.