City Sketching Reimagined: Ideas, exercises, inspiration

Acclaimed Royal Academy artist Jeanette Barnes and Paul Brandford have released a new guide to sketching for town and city dwellers, covering architecture, accidental paintings, cocktails, clouds, smudges, and skyscrapers. It introduces various art materials, their uses, and insights and exercises to build confidence. The book also discusses the processes behind drawing and strategies to inject more creativity. It is filled with scribbles, sketches, and preparatory drawings that feed into the larger works for which Barnes is known. The book is a multipurpose tool to unlock the potential of drawing both technically and philosophically and allows readers to bring urban living to life.

Format: Hardback
Length: 272 pages
Publication date: 07 April 2022
Publisher: Pavilion Books

Acclaimed Royal Academy artist Jeanette Barnes and Paul Brandford have breathed new life into sketching for town and city dwellers everywhere. This guide covers everything from architecture to accidental paintings, cocktails to clouds, smudges to skyscrapers. With easily digested bite-size entries, it introduces many types of art materials, their uses, and a number of insights and exercises to build confidence in a range of approaches to drawing. For the more experienced sketcher, the artists discuss the processes behind drawing and strategies to inject more creativity and open-mindedness about how to take a drawing forward.

With great charm, the book gives a window onto the experiences of Jeanette, who has traveled to many cities worldwide in search of inspiring city subjects and a half-decent cocktail. Full of tips and ideas about working on location and back in the studio, this book is filled with the scribbles, sketches, and preparatory drawings that feed into the larger works for which she is known.

As a whole, the book is a multipurpose tool that can be used to unlock the potential of drawing both technically and philosophically so that the reader can be the architect of their own drawing experience rather than the recipient of someone else's. After thirty years of drawing, many of them teaching, the authors still feel an excitement when picking up a pencil or some charcoal. This book gives every reader the chance to share that excitement and bring urban living to life.

Weight: 1066g
Dimension: 196 x 254 x 26 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781849946902