"vor ort" in mainz, germany

I was invited by jenny adam and the landesmuseum of mainz, germany, to participate to the urban sketching workshop and exhibition "vor ort" featuring marina grechanik, johanna krimmel, inma serrano, sebastian koch, sebastian lörscher, felix scheinberger and myself.
during 10 days, I taught extreme perspective, sketched the city and learn from the other instructors. the stunning exhibition is running until the 2nd of september, don't miss it!

thank you so much jenny for this great encounter!

"space oddities" workshop in poblenou, barcelona

how can I describe this past 5 days with such a great group of sketchers from all around europe?

first of all, thank you very much to isabel and swasky who invited me to teach with them in my neighborhood, poblenou. we definitely pushed our sketching boundaries curving the space to fit 180º to 360º scenes in our sketchbooks. we also invited the participant to focus on some quotidian subjects in spite of the many monuments of barcelona, showing the transition that is happening here, also called gentrification.
I especially appreciate to get time to speak with every participant, and to get 2 workshop cessions with each in small groups of 8 to 10 sketchers, that allow me to go further in the explanation of some complicated representation as cylindrical and spherical perspective.

following are some of this special moments we shared together:









congratulation to each of you, you made a terrific job.
see you soon again, and until than keep sketching!!

workshop in sansepolcro, toscana

I'm back from toscana, where gérard michel and I taught an urban sketching workshop "sketching in the footsteps of piero della francesca" about curvilinear perspective.
it takes place in sansepolcro, the hometown of piero della francesca, where he defined the first rules of modern perspective, using one vanishing point, in the XVth century.
gérard told us about opening our point of view, while sketching some cylindrical and spherical perspective, using 4 to 6 vanishing points (in an orthogonal space), in order to represent the all space around us.
but the main point of our class was to enjoy sketching perspective, and it seems that our small group of 14 sketchers did enjoy a lot the 3 days…

sorry marcello, francesco and maurizio, you were not back from lunch when we did this picture… and thanks to all of you who shared this unforgettable week end.

sansepolcro is a very inspiring place, in the east of toscana (with incredible food).
we enjoy the great architecture there and in anghiari to apply both cylindrical and spherical perspective:

on sunday, we spent the morning in the main place "piazza torre di berta", and I plan to give back to the city the missing tower "berta" that was destroyed during the 2nd world war (do not miss the testimony "l'ultima ombra" about it), and the top of the other towers of the medieval centre, that were cut centuries ago…

and we had lot's of fun while sketching each other at night, on the tablecloth!!
thanks fabio for organising it, and see you soon buddies!