City Sketching Reimagined: Ideas, exercises, inspiration

Acclaimed Royal Academy artist Jeanette Barnes and Paul Brandford breathe new life into sketching for town and city dwellers everywhere.

Mercurial, inspirational, practical and charming, this guide covers everything from architecture to accidental paintings, cocktails to clouds, smudges to skyscrapers.

With easily digested bite-size entries, it introduces many types of art materials, their uses and a number of insights and exercises to build confidence in a range of approaches to drawing. For the more experienced sketcher, the artists discuss the processes behind drawing and strategies to inject more creativity and open-mindedness about how to take a drawing forward.

With great charm, the book gives a window onto the experiences of Jeanette, who has travelled to many cities worldwide in search of inspiring city subjects and a half-decent cocktail. Full of tips and ideas about working on location and back in the studio, this book is filled with the scribbles, sketches and preparatory drawings that feed into the larger works for which she is known.

As a whole, the book is a multipurpose tool which can be used to unlock the potential of drawing both technically and philosophically so that the reader can be the architect of their own drawing experience rather than the recipient of someone else's. 

After thirty years of drawing, many of them teaching, the authors still feel an excitement when picking up a pencil or some charcoal. This book gives every reader the chance to share that excitement and bring urban living to life. 

 

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City Sketching Reimagined: Ideas, exercises, inspiration

Acclaimed Royal Academy artist Jeanette Barnes and Paul Brandford breathe new life into sketching for town and city dwellers everywhere.

Mercurial, inspirational, practical and charming, this guide covers everything from architecture to accidental paintings, cocktails to clouds, smudges to skyscrapers.

With easily digested bite-size entries, it introduces many types of art materials, their uses and a number of insights and exercises to build confidence in a range of approaches to drawing. For the more experienced sketcher, the artists discuss the processes behind drawing and strategies to inject more creativity and open-mindedness about how to take a drawing forward.

With great charm, the book gives a window onto the experiences of Jeanette, who has travelled to many cities worldwide in search of inspiring city subjects and a half-decent cocktail. Full of tips and ideas about working on location and back in the studio, this book is filled with the scribbles, sketches and preparatory drawings that feed into the larger works for which she is known.

As a whole, the book is a multipurpose tool which can be used to unlock the potential of drawing both technically and philosophically so that the reader can be the architect of their own drawing experience rather than the recipient of someone else's. 

After thirty years of drawing, many of them teaching, the authors still feel an excitement when picking up a pencil or some charcoal. This book gives every reader the chance to share that excitement and bring urban living to life. 

 

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Acclaimed Royal Academy artist Jeanette Barnes and Paul Brandford breathe new life into sketching for town and city dwellers everywhere.

Mercurial, inspirational, practical and charming, this guide covers everything from architecture to accidental paintings, cocktails to clouds, smudges to skyscrapers.

With easily digested bite-size entries, it introduces many types of art materials, their uses and a number of insights and exercises to build confidence in a range of approaches to drawing. For the more experienced sketcher, the artists discuss the processes behind drawing and strategies to inject more creativity and open-mindedness about how to take a drawing forward.

With great charm, the book gives a window onto the experiences of Jeanette, who has travelled to many cities worldwide in search of inspiring city subjects and a half-decent cocktail. Full of tips and ideas about working on location and back in the studio, this book is filled with the scribbles, sketches and preparatory drawings that feed into the larger works for which she is known.

As a whole, the book is a multipurpose tool which can be used to unlock the potential of drawing both technically and philosophically so that the reader can be the architect of their own drawing experience rather than the recipient of someone else's. 

After thirty years of drawing, many of them teaching, the authors still feel an excitement when picking up a pencil or some charcoal. This book gives every reader the chance to share that excitement and bring urban living to life. 

 


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781849948098
Publisher: Batsford, B.T. Ltd.
Publication date: 04/07/2022
Sold by: Bookwire
Format: eBook
Pages: 272
File size: 100 MB
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About the Author

Jeanette Barnes and Paul Brandford have taught drawing for three decades. During that time they have worked for a range of institutions including the Royal Academy of Arts, the Royal Drawing School, the Courtauld and the NSEAD. As practising artists they have exhibited widely and have each won major prizes in the field of drawing, including the Jerwood Prize, won by Paul and Jeanette in 2003 and 2004 respectively. Jeanette was awarded the Henry Moore Scholarship in 1984 and 1987–90 and the Richard Ford Spanish Scholarship in 1987, and won the Trinity Buoy Wharf Working Drawing Prize in 2019. Her work is held in public and private collections in the UK, Austria, Germany and the USA. They live in North London.


Jeanette Barnes and Paul Brandford have taught drawing for three decades, during that time they have between them worked for a range of art institutions including the Royal Academy of Arts, The Royal Drawing School, the Courtauld, and the NSEAD. As practicing artists they have exhibited widely and won major prizes in the field of drawing, although their own works are particularly distinct from one another’s they share a similar grounding to drawing which can be traced back to their art educations in the 1980s.  Jeanette Barnes, known for her urban sketching, was awarded the Henry Moore Scholarship in 1984 and 1987-90, the Richard Ford Spanish Scholarship in 1987 and was the Jerwood Drawing 2004 prize winner. In 2006 Jeanette was accepted to exhibit in the Royal Academy Summer Show in London at the Royal Academy of Arts in London. Her work is held in public and private collections in the UK, Austria, Germany and the USA.

Table of Contents

Introduction 6

Accident 11

Ambition 13

Architecture 15

Artist's Eyes 16

Biro 18

Black and White 20

Building Sites 23

Cable Cars 26

Charcoal 30

Classes 34

Cocktails 34

Collage 36

Colour 38

Composition 40

Compressed Charcoal 44

Cranes 48

Dirty 50

Docklands 52

Distraction 55

Dog Ends 57

Duplicate 58

Escalators 61

Evolution 64

Exhibitions 66

Experiment 69

Expertise 70

Expression 70

Figures in Movement 72

Film 76

Finished? 80

Fracture 83

Glue Stick 85

Graphite 86

Guidebooks 91

Hairspray 92

Honesty 94

Hotels 97

Hustle and Bustle 101

Ignoring People 102

Imagination 104

Ink 109

Instinct 110

iPads and Tablets 112

Jazz 117

Jeanette (by Paul) 119

Keep Everything 120

King's Cross Station 120

Knives 126

Know Your Enemy 126

Light and Shadow 130

Linear Perspective 132

London 137

Longevity 142

Materials 142

Memory 145

Mistakes 146

Museums 146

Near and Far 149

Neatness 151

Neck Pillow 151

New York 152

Nibs 156

Olympic Park 160

OMG 165

One Size Fits All 165

Panorama 168

Paper 170

Parks and Recreation 170

Pastels 175

Paul (by Jeanette) 178

Pencils 180

Pens 186

Piccadilly Circus 191

Plan 192

Practice at Home 195

Process 196

Quality of Line 198

Quality versus Quantity 202

Quitter 202

Reportage 204

Results 204

Rubbing Out 207

Shanghai 208

Signs 210

Silhouette 215

Sketchbooks 217

Skewers 218

Skill 220

Space 220

Spider Technique 224

Statues and Sculpture 224

Texting 229

Tokyo 231

Tracks and Tramlines 234

Traffic 238

Underdrawing 241

Underground Stations 242

Upside Down 246

Vegas 246

Verticals 248

Viewfinder 248

Violence 251

Visual Language 254

Watercolour 256

Wax Resist 261

Weather 261

Wrong Hand 263

X Factor 264

XL 264

Yesterday 266

You Can't Be Too Careful 266

Zero to Hero 268

Q&A 269

Index 271

About the Authors 272

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