Folding Pages, Unfolding Drawings with Mário Linhares

Combine three sketches in a dynamic way by folding just one page and creating three drawings.

How is a drawing deeply related to the previous one and the next one? In this workshop, we will combine three sketches in a dynamic way by folding just one page into another and creating three drawings that will appear to go together. And yet each drawing will able to stand alone. This workshop will expand your idea of what a sketch and a sketchbook can be.

See Examples:

https://www.instagram.com/p/CuHWm40rvyy/?img_index=3

https://www.instagram.com/p/CuNG3rRP-GQ/?img_index=1

https://www.instagram.com/p/Cuo-WiKr5Jr/

https://www.instagram.com/p/BwUtABxgLPh/

Meeting place:

We will meet at the Fifth Hammer Brewery and use as our subject the array of kettles, vessels, tanks, tubes, hoses, gauges and wooden barrels that are all part of the brewing process. You will be documenting in a series of interconnected drawings the equipment that is used in producing a fine quality beer or ale.

Supplies List

• Sketchbook with sewn-in sheets of paper. Spiral sketchbooks won't work.

• Pen with black waterproof ink

• Watercolor set and brushes or waterbrushes

• Colored pencils

• Seating will be available, but bringing a stool could give you more options

Please Note: There will be no refunds or exchanges on this workshop.

About Mario

Mário Linhares has a PhD in Fine Arts and is a Professor in the Fine Arts Research Center & Studies at the University of Lisbon. In drawing, he enjoys incorporating influences from past masters, learning how their methods and techniques can be applied today. Linhares started Urban Sketchers Portugal in 2009, joined the international executive board in 2011, and served as the nonprofit’s education director until 2019. He likes linking art with community and social projects (East Timor, 2022, 2015, 2009; Ivory Coast, 2013; Guinea-Bissau, 2008; Romania, 2004; Kenya, 2002). He's the head of the Zambujal 360 project, the 1st neighbourhood ambassador for the UN 17 Sustainable Development Goals.

He is the author of several books, articles, and essays, contributes drawings to exhibitions, and delivers lectures worldwide.

See Mario's work on Instagram at @linhares.mr

Tickets for this event are not refundable or exchangeable.