Travel Sketching

Travel Sketching Workshop

If you love to travel, trek and have wanderlust, come along and join in, for this fun and unique Travel Sketching Workshop. Here you will learn how to sketch all those amazing places you visit, be it a temple in Bali or a lovely waterfall in Vietnam, be it a café in Europe or even a museum. This is a Kickstarter workshop for newbies who are starting their sketching journey. Bring your travel buddy and join in!!

When you travel you obviously cherish those memories and you love the retelling of all those stories. Now what is the best way to keep those stories alive? The best way is to keep a journal with all the little details. In this workshop you will learn how to start and keep a Travel Art Journal. Where you will learn how to sketch your travels. You will learn basics of watercolour sketching and lettering to key in the details of the places you visit. Here you will learn to not get intimidated by too many details, to deal with perspective drawing and create lovely sketches fast.

Sketching is one of the best and easiest forms of art to learn and develop on a daily basis. It helps in concentration, focus and also adds to calming the mind. sketching is easy and fun to do whether alone or with a gang of friends.

This workshop aims at teaching the basics of sketching and watercolours to people who have just started or to total Newbies. It is also aimed at lessening the hesitation towards art and to open up easy ways to approach art.

Here we learn how to compose, draw basic structures and objects with free-flowing lines, learn to draw natural surroundings, buildings and monuments with ease. You will learn how to create free flowing sketches, use pen and watercolour and keep a visual journal.

About Parinitha Konanur:

Parinitha Konanur is an artist, illustrator and designer. She has a degree in fine arts from Karnataka Chitrakala Parishath and worked as a photographer before becoming a full-time illustrator and designer. She has been exploring the many facets of sketching and illustrations since she fell in love with watercolours, exploring new ways of sketching along with urban sketching and travel sketching. She is nature lover and is obsessed with natural history illustrations and live sketching in nature. She loves to travel to explore and understand the world around her, with a keen eye and thirst for finding new cultures, colours, themes to bring about in her conceptual drawings and watercolour illustrations.

She strongly believes that the world is fast paced and we tend to not observe our surroundings and that sketching is the best way to do so, that through sketching you can slow down, learn, observe, create and document your daily life, travels and more.

Materials included:

Watercolour

Pen: Waterproof Black Gel Pen / Technical Pen waterproof

Pencil: Any pencil / technical pencil/ HB pencil

Eraser

Sketchbook

Brushes: Round Brushes size 6 / 10 / 2

A tumbler for water and a rag cloth or tissue paper