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Mastering Depth: Techniques for Bringing Your Sketches to Life

In this workshop, we’ll explore ways to convey depth and dimension in your sketches. We’ll focus on how to effectively position and use color across the foreground, middle-ground and background, creating a natural sense of depth that pulls the viewer into your artwork. By experimenting with distance cues such as relative scale, positioning and perspective, you’ll discover new ways to bring your drawings to life and add rich dimensionality to your sketches.

Supplies

  • Favorite line making tools: Graphite pencil or black ink pens with waterproof ink (Pitt Artist pen by Faber-Castell or similar)
  • Inexpensive sketch pad for quick studies and exercises (Clairefontaine Crok’ Book 8″ x 12″ Sketch Pad or similar)
  • A sheet of hot press watercolor paper A4 (8.27” x 11.69”)
  • Pentel waterbrush, large round tip
  • Portable watercolor box with lots of surface for mixing
  • Watercolors (can be purchased in tubes and squeezed into half pans, student grade watercolors are fine)
  • Color pencils, not watercolor (optional)
  • Portable stool

Rita Sabler

Rita Sabler is the author of two books of reportage, “New York Reawakens” and “Listening to New Orleans,” and currently works as a freelance visual journalist for Oregon Public Broadcasting. An award-winning visual journalist, author and educator for more than a decade, Sabler has inspired diverse audiences to cultivate a lifelong passion for travel sketching and reportage. From 2019-2023 she served as the education director on the board of the Urban Sketchers organization. Her reportage about the Kalaupapa Settlement received the International Sketchbook Prize at the 2019 Rendez-Vous du Carnet de Voyage Festival in Clermont-Ferrand.

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