Workshop Proposal ABOUT YOU 1.Name: Isabel Carmona Miguel Herranz Swasky 2.Address: Isabel Carmona 83 Old Newtown Road, Newbury, RG14 7DE, UK Miguel Herranz Comte d’Urgell 280 6º 3ª 08036 Barcelona, SPAIN Swasky Av. Verge de Montserrat, 56. Ent. 2º. CP 08210. Barberà del Vallès,

Barcelona, SPAIN. 3.Phone: Isabel +44 7905 495614 Miguel +34 636 985 191 Swasky +34 637966775 4.Primary email address (It’s very important that you provide your primary email address, the one that you check regularly. We’ll use this address to give you access to the workshops blog and instructors mailing list.) Isabel isacarand@gmail.com Miguel freekhand@montebuono.com Swasky swasky@gmail.com 5.What Urban Sketchers blog do you contribute to? (i.e. International blog, USK Portugal, USK Berlin, etc...) Isabel USk Spain, USK London Miguel USk International Blog Swasky USk International Blog, USk Spain 6.Tell us about your experience as an art instructor. Describe how your teaching experience applies to the Urban Sketchers workshop program. Isabel

2016 Manchester Symposium 2016 - workshop instructor with Len Grant of workshop

entitled Focus your Sketching stories.

2014 to date Organiser and instructor of USk workshops in 2016, 2015 and 2014 : Pushing Your Sketching Boundaries in UK (Oxford 2014 and 2015,Coventry 2015, Newbury 2016 and Brighton 2016) and Spain (Segovia 2015 and Malaga 2016).

http://workshops.urbansketchers.org/2015/10/pushing-your-sketching-boundaries.html http://workshops.urbansketchers.org/2015/10/coventry-april-2015-pushing-your.html http://workshops.urbansketchers.org/2014/08/oxford-workshop-pushing-your-sketching.html

2014 to date Organiser Open Studios Cover to Cover Sketchbook Project 2014, 2015,2016 and 2017 (covertocover-sketches.blogspot.co.uk) as part of local Open Studios scheme - pushing artists to come out and sketch on location

2014 Organiser of local Big Draw event at City Arts Newbury 2014 and 2015 - www.cityartsnewbury.co.uk

2012-13 Private Watercolour workshops with focus on self expression and pushing the boundaries of the technique - this same search for self expression is what i look for to focus on this USk workshop Teacher of West Berkshire & North Hampshire Open Studios "Freeing up Watercolours & Textures" workshop (May 2012)- exploring various mixed media techniques to be explored on this USk workshop including preparing the surface of the paper (sketchbook) before using it ..

Miguel Herranz

2016 Teacher of storyboarding (Degree in Animation and VFX) at LaSalle University (Barcelona).

2015 Instructor at the 6th USk Symposium in Singapore Instructor at Sketchbook Skool (http://www.sketchbookskool.com).

2013 - Present Instructor of several drawing courses and workshops at the ESCAC (http://www.escuelacine.es)

2013 - Present Instructor in “Drawing on Location” courses

2012 - 2013 Organiser of the 4th USk Symposium in Barcelona

2012 - 2013 Instructor for “Barcelona Dibuixa” Workshops supported by the city council before the 4th USk Symposium in Barcelona.

2012 Instructor in “Cercle Artístic de Sant Lluc” (hosting institution for the 4th USk Symp in BCN demos’). Course about urban sketching called “Dibuixant la ciutat” (“Drawing the City”).

2012 Instructor at the 3rd USk Symposium in Santo Domingo

Swasky

2017

2015 - Present Instructor in “Escola Illa”, school of art and design in Sabadell (BCN) (http://ca.sabadell.cat/escolailla/tallers2014-15.asp).

2016 Instructor at the BIG DRAW Barcelona, organized with the Picasso Museum and Gustavo Gili.

2016 Instructor at the 5th USk Symposium in Manchester.

2016 Organiser of USK Pushing your sketching Boundaries in workshops in Málaga Workshop “Light and Shade”.

2016 Organiser and instructor of USK Pushing your sketching Boundaries in workshops in Brighton Workshop “People on stage”.

2016 Organiser and instructor of USK Pushing your sketching Boundaries in workshops in Newbury Workshop “Pushing how to look”.

2015 Organiser and instructor of USK Pushing your sketching Boundaries in workshops in Segovia Workshop “Water Marks”.

2015 Organiser and instructor of USK Pushing your sketching Boundaries in workshops in Oxford Workshop “Pushing your Sketching Boundaries”.

2015 Organiser and instructor of USK Pushing your sketching Boundaries in workshops in Conventry Workshop “Space Oddities”.

2014 Organiser and instructor of USK “Pushing your sketching Boundaries” in workshops in Oxford Workshop 2014 : Pushing Your Sketching Boundaries - http://workshops.urbansketchers.org/2014/08/oxford-workshop-pushing-your-sketching.html.

2013 - 2015 Instructor in “Drawing on Location” courses.

2012 - 2013 Organiser of the 4th USk Symposium in Barcelona.

2012 - 2013 Instructor for “Barcelona Dibuixa” Workshops supported by the city council before the 4th USk Symposium in Barcelona.

2012 Instructor in “Cercle Artístic de Sant Lluc” (hosting institution for the 4th USk Symp in BCN demos’). Course about urban sketching called “Dibuixant la ciutat” (“Drawing the City”).

2012 Instructor at the 3rd USk Symposium in Santo Domingo.

7.Why would you like to become an Urban Sketchers workshop instructor? * Isabel I like sharing my passion for sketching with people and enjoy seeing others getting hooked on it. I enjoy the variety of ways people have to convey what they see, we are all different! Colour is sometimes scary for those not confident with sketching and I like helping others freeing up on their use of watercolour and other colour and texture media. Starting to sketch/paint with colour only can help abstracting the view of the world around us and we can always add later lines to sharpen up the sketch if we wish to. Miguel I like to share my experience drawing on location and telling everyday stories with other people. I love to give them some of my skills and take from them new points of view drawing all together. Swasky I would like to enjoy and share with others my pleasure for drawing. Everytime I start a workshop my goal is that one. Drawing has become the cornerstone of my life and spreading its use in our daily life. 8. Bio (Add an edited bio that can be used in promotional materials. Length should be between 50 to 100 words.) Isabel is Spanish but studied in UK where she practices as an architect and artist. Her passion is watercolour, easy to carry around and sketch on the go and likes experimenting and mixing media to get interesting effects. Isabel started sketching in 1993 as part of her architecture training and continues to this day. She joined Urban Sketchers Spain in 2011. As an artist she is part of West Berkshire and North Hampshire Open Studios scheme and joined the Oxford Printmakers Cooperative in 2013. www.isacarmona-sketches.blogspot.co.uk www.isacarmona-art.com Miguel. After a long career as advertising creative in Spain and Italy, Miguel becomes a freelance illustrator a few years ago. Working all day with digital media drove him back towards the live touch of the sketchbook that had finally grown to become his main medium of expression. https://www.flickr.com/photos/mherranz/

https://www.facebook.com/freekhand https://issuu.com/freekhand https://www.youtube.com/user/freekhand http://www.miguel-herranz.com Swasky born and raised in Barcelona, Swasky has been drawing most of his lifetime, but when he finished his BFA he left drawing because he tried to start working. Then he decided to start again a degree in Audiovisual Communication. Once he fulfill his second degree he worked in an advertising production company, RCR, disappointed with a job so stressful and invidious he left his job and run a shop. With a new life he started drawing again. http://www.urbansketchers.org/search/label/Swasky https://www.facebook.com/drawingswasky http://www.swasky.es Len Grant (Guest speaker) : Following an unrewarding stint in sales and marketing Len launched himself as a photographer over 25 years ago and subsequently added writing and sketching to his repertoire. He’s a keen member of the Manchester Urban Sketchers and has taught on the 2016 Urban Sketchers Symposium and at local workshops. For a variety of non-profit clients Len now uses sketching as a story-telling technique often with vulnerable subjects or in low income neighbourhoods. www.lengrant.co.uk 9. Area of speciality in sketching (Indicate what topics, you are experienced in teaching, (i.e.perspective, value drawing, reportage, activities and people, watercolor, pencil, charcoal, ink,etc.) Isabel Colour and expressive watercolour , architecture Miguel Reportage, architecture, people. Swasky People, storytelling.

ABOUT YOUR WORKSHOP 1. Workshop Title “Life stories.” (2017) 2. Workshop description Bristol, in the heart of South West England, has a distinctive identity as sustainable city - it has earned European Green Capital status and has a vibrant art, cultural and social scene. Whilst preparing this workshop we approached various groups in Bristol to engage with their work and their approach of creating a better social environment and we have teamed with the Brandon Trust, a local charity supporting adults and children with learning disabilities and autism. Specifically, we will be based at Elm Tree Farm, a social enterprise enabling people with learning disabilities and autism to gain working skills and access employment. We are going to tell their Life Story as well as discovering each others. Elm Tree Farm, situated in Stapleton, has a variety of livestock, a farm shop, a market garden, a plant nursery and a wood workshop. We will be based at the farm during the mornings and early afternoons and divide in groups to discover the various aspect of their activities, they will tell us they stories, welcome our questions and also participate and ask us about ourselves. We will sketch their normal activities, as they are gardening or working in various activities whilst trying out the challenges posed by each of the tutors. In the late afternoon, we will go into Bristol and discuss our experiences of the day and continue drawing in the urban setting. We have booked a space to gather in the Stokes Croft area of Bristol - Cafe Kino where in the first day we will have an introductory talk by Len Grant on his personal experience on projects involving local communities, such as Sown in Bolton . As part of the workshop we will put together an exhibition of our work, while the course is in progress, at cafe Kino, and later (preliminary date is September 2017) we will help the Elm Tree Farm put an exhibition together of the stories we told at the Farm, in their own environment. Discover, talk while you paint and draw (Isabel) Drawing people in action and intimately is a journey of discovery, a conversation, finding out while you draw them, listening what they have to tell as much as the difficulties of the drawing. We will work in colour initially setting up the scene and the people who tell us the story at the same time as we talk to them. Starting with colour (in watercolour or your prefered media) we abstract what we see. Drawing will take place later either with more colour more linear marks or with pen if preferred. Because we are discovering and finding out loads of information, we will learn to synthesize, pick up those points that interest us, record them and remember them while drawing them

The process will help participants to think about a sketch from the general (capturing the general picture in colour in blocks) to the particular (adding detail and focus gradually). As well as capturing the people, and the action, we will spend time in their setting, looking at the outcome of their work and bringing it all together with text and note taking.

“Talk, listen, watch, draw” (Miguel) The main topic of this workshop is storytelling in general but also in particular about the work and life at Elm Tree Farm. First, we will work out how to give the sensation of space depth without surroundings, using only the people and objects whose actions interest us. Next, we will experiment how to make the surroundings play the main role and the people be simply decoration but not as just still images but as characters in the story we tell.

Then we will work on live composition as the opposite of still composition. This means not only paying attention to color weights and line balance, but also to what the actors (either people and environment

as we saw on the first part) do or see or pretend to. We will learn how this interpretation can be underlined with the way we display them in our drawing. We also experiment on how framing or cutting parts of the drawing can be a very strong tool to add interest and drama, to our story. Our tool for this part will be vignettes as in a comic strip, so composition is important to tell our story.

Finally, we will work with sequence, and how to tell a little story/reportage of what happens around us, trying to capture some of the everyday stories that happen before our eyes on a tale using some of the cinema and comic techniques for this aim. We will look at the activities and day and day tasks at Elm Farm and see how we can break them into small actions and sequences that can tell their story effectively. Our sequences will focus a part of the story or another and can change the meaning of what we tell significantly. Loads to think about.

WE, the storytellers (Swasky) When thinking about drawing and telling stories, it always comes to my mind those old storytellers who went from village to village with big signs full with little illustrations. I consider our role as storytellers, we tell stories which are around us, from our daily life and from the places we visit. My approach to a place that I want to draw and I want to capture is normally the same but with little subtleties which express the difference of the particular place. First of all, I try to feel which is the common thread that links to my own experience, to my daily life. I choose something which touches my heart and catches my interest.

6 or 10 seconds sketch. Starting up our approach to draw people.

People is the most important thing related to any place like Elm Tree Farm. This is why we are going to follow their activities and try to find out their feelings and stories. Based on portraits, interviews and drawing people we will tell the stories which are behind such a great project.

These are the examples of what we are going to do. Here there are two double spread which follow the

same structure. Nevertheless this is just the starting point to work how to mix action and interview.

Capturing the action of an accumulation of moments and then add the portrait

Having the opportunity of being in front of someone who give you the opportunity of chatting is a great moment to portrait and find out more details about that person. Slowly, we learn from the conversation we are having things we may not have expected and they can enrich our drawing and story to give a fuller reporting of their personality and activity.

Time as always, it is a question of time. We all have questions. Now is the moment to feed our curiosity.

3. Learning goals

● Pushing participants out of their comfort zone, at their own level. From beginners starting to sketch to more confident participants, we aim to teach you something new and push you outside your boundaries, helping you experiment.

● Losing the fear to draw people ● Focusing on people, context and the story underneath. ● Learning to interview people and tell their story ● Reportage and collecting in drawn form what you want to express ● Experiment with different techniques and ways of approaching a live sketch situation, helping

you find your own self expression. ● Using and trying different approaches - line drawing with pens and pencils,watercolours and

colour in different media. ● Using more colour and texture and making you think about how do you represent what you see

and to develop your own way of representing what you see in colour with confidence 4.Workshop location (City and country) Bristol , UK 5. Dates (Day, month and year) Introduction evening Wed 21st June Course sketching dates Thursday 22nd, Fri 23rd and Sat 24th June 2017 We will run an sketchcrawl in central Bristol with all the local Bristol/South West Urban Sketchers group on Sunday 25th June 6. Duration (Be as specific as possible, i.e. 3 hours on a Saturday morning, from 9 a.m. to noon; or,three consecutive Friday afternoons, from 6 to 9 p.m.) Each day 9.30 am – 6:30pm 7. Workshop Schedule (How will the workshop be organized over the period of the day?) Wednesday 21 June Welcome at Cafe Kino in our meeting space , from 4:30 to 7pm with a talk by Len Grant Thursday 22 June 9:00 to 10:00 Welcome at Elm Tree Farm at our base- Induction talk by the Brandon Trust team at 9:30 10 am -12pm Isa, Miguel and Swasky workshops 12pm - 1.00pm Lunch

1.00pm - 3.00pm Isa, Miguel and Swasky workshops 3.00pm -3.30pm Review and tea at our base at Elm Tree Farm 3:30 to 4:15 Make our way to cafe Kino 4:15 to 6:15 Sketchbook session - bring it all together at cafe Kino Friday 23 June 9:30 to 10:00 Gather at our base at Elm Tree Farm 10 am-12pm Isa, Miguel and Swasky workshops 12 pm- 1.00pm Lunch 1.00pm - 3.00pm Isa, Miguel and Swasky workshops 3.00pm -3.30pm Review and tea at our base at Elm Tree Farm 3:30 to 4:15 Make our way to cafe Kino 4:15 to 6:15 Sketchbook session - bring it all together at cafe Kino Saturday 24 June 9:30 to 10:00 Gather at our base at Elm Tree Farm 10 am-12pm Isa, Miguel and Swasky workshops 12 pm- 1.00pm Lunch 1.00pm - 3.00pm Isa, Miguel and Swasky workshops 3.00pm -3.30pm Review and tea at our base at Elm Tree Farm 3:30 to 4:15 Make our way to cafe Kino 4:15 to 6:15 Sketchbook session - bring it all together at cafe Kino

Sunday 25 June 10.00pm -5.00pm Sketchcrawl in Bristol - USk Bristol/South West will join us 8. Maximum number of participants (level of experience) Max 30 people Any level of experience 9. Minimum number of participants (Workshop is cancelled unless this number of participants signs up) 18 people 10. Supply list (Are their any supplies that you feel are important for participants to bring with them for the workshop?) 11.Registration fee (How much will you charge each participant? Explain the method of payment and any possible discounts you may offer.)

£ 225 - (£180 concessions - 20% discount for students or unwaged (with proof of concession status)) Email Isabel - isacarand@gmail.com for registration form (Payment can be via internet bank transfer or paypal) 12. Sponsorship TBC (Will other organizations or companies —i.e art suppliers— sponsor your workshop provide material for participants? If so, list your sponsors here.)