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Channeling Van Gogh

In this workshop, we will analyze Vincent Van Gogh’s drawings and learn his technique of filling up the page with multiple sizes of line strokes to create a drawing like a painting. We will start with a short presentation of his drawings followed by thumbnail exercises to practice his technique. After understanding how everything works, we will create a drawing on the spread of the sketchbook inspired by one topic that Van Gogh sketched many times: the water flow.

Supplies

  • Sketchbook
  • Graphite pencils (HB; 3B)
  • Sepia ink and nib
  • Stool

Mário Linhares

Mário Linhares likes to link art with community projects. In drawing, he enjoys embedding influences from the masters of the past and learning how those methods and techniques can be used nowadays. Linhares has a B.A. in Design, an M.A. in Visual Arts Education and a Ph.D. in Fine Arts, with specialty in Drawing. A professor in Lisbon, Portugal, he belongs to the Fine Arts Research Center and Studies at University of Lisbon. Linhares started Urban Sketchers Portugal in 2009, joined the international executive board in 2011 and served as the nonprofit’s education director until 2019. Linhares is the author of several books, articles and essays, contributes drawings to exhibitions and delivers lectures worldwide.

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