Some people prioritize food while traveling, while others focus on local music scenes. However, for a specific group of visitors, it is not as absorbed as calm down in front of an impressive scene and put a pen or paintbrush on paper.
“I've always been fascinated by travel journals and watercolors, but I didn't think I could do it myself,” said Clara B. Martin, a 44 -year -old content creator. She registered in the online watercolor class while being trapped in Madrid's home in the pandemic. When her daughters participated and the restrictions were over, the family began to bring a sketchbook on a trip.
“It's a great way to remember where all the precautions are concentrated around,” said Martin, who sketched with his family with Amsterdam, Portugal, and other spots. “This is a way to really cut between an hour or so. We all sit down and concentrate on sketches.”
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One form of “Throat Travel”
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“Many tourists arrive in the same place, take dozens of photos on mobile phones, and continue to run to another point on the map,” he said. Alicia Aladilla said. 。
The sketch said, “One of the few arts fields to experience the subject directly in place,” he said. “The real thing has demand.”
Aradilla and Scheinberger provide sketch classes for everything, from taking pictures of passing light to choosing the best paintbrush. While teaching the technical aspects of sketches, Scheinberger stated that his workshop thrusts were in the “artistic art.”
Some classes are online, but other classes are held directly around the world, so the group will learn together when sketching the scene. The price is different, but the weekend workshop in Berlin is, for example, 300-400 euros ($ 314-419), and participants need to bring a Fineliner pen (this popular option is 6). It costs $ 12 in the pack). Sketchbooks (some sketchers recommend these 16 Morskin).
One of the general ways to start is to participate in Urban Sketchers, a non -profit organization -based basin since 2009. Urban sketchers have local branches in 499 international cities and count 1,200 members as members. Membership is free, which includes simply participating in local chapters. In the chapter, we organize the opportunity to go out and sketches the group, encourage the community's sense. URBAN SKETCHERS maintains the Global Sketchbook, a blog that provides hints and inspiration, and features sketches for members around the world.
If you want to start by yourself, the first step is to go there. “To mow our own experience, we have to go out of the door,” said Shine Burger. “It's a good thing to bring a sketchbook together.”
Only pencils and paper are required. Most people are packed with sketchbooks, but that is not needed. One city sketcher, Julio Brenes, uses a disposable paper coffee cup as a canvas.
“The city sketch has completely changed the way I travel around the world,” said Aladilla. “It makes me travel more slowly and more clearly understand what the city's daily life is like. To perceive that light, sound, and routine.”
