42th Sketchcrawl BCN/Poblenou

El encuentro fue en la Rambla del Poblenou. Por la mañana di un taller sobre dibujo urbano por lo que no pude asistir desde el principio. Me uní con el grupo junto a algunos asistentes al curso para comer, y después hice este dibujo de la Plaza de Can Felipa, una antigua manufactura de seda transformada hoy en instalaciones deportivas y culturales del Ayuntamiento de Barcelona. Fue mi único dibujo del día.

The meeting took place at la Ramblea del Poblenou. I gave a workshop about urban drawing in the morning so I couldn't go from the beginning. I joined the SkC group with some of the attendees for lunch. In the afternoon I did this drawing of Plaza de Can Felipa, which was an old silk factory, now transformed into a sports and culture center of the Barcelona Council. It was my only drawing of the day.

Teaching (and learning)

Drawings made while teaching the course "Drawing the City" about which I blogged some weeks ago. Every lesson consists of about half an our in the classroom and 2 and a half hours of drawing from life. I always make the same exercises I propose to the the students.

In this case, identifying simple volumes...


...before drawing architecture (this is a crossroads in Poblenou 100 meters far from my house).


Here we went again to see a rehearsal of the Castellers de Sants for drawing people.


For the next drawings we went to the Parc de la Ciutadella and the idea was to draw without lines, just color stains were allowed.


Drawings from other people at the course can be seen on this flickr group.