Online Class: Urban Sketching | Perspective & Preparation

Join us for a unique opportunity to learn the basics of urban sketching.

While this class compliments the Museum’s popular in-person Urban Sketching classes, it also serves as a stand-alone topic that will benefit anyone looking to start or strengthen their urban sketching practice at home. Through interactive demos and instructions, teaching artist Sudeshna Sengupta will guide participants through the basic principles of linear perspective and atmospheric perspective to capture spatial depth in a scene. She will also demonstrate various sketching tips, tools, styles, and techniques that can be used to implement these concepts. 

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This class is suitable for youth ages 12 and up. Children are welcome to participate alongside their adults.

Space is limited, reservations required. Note that all program times are in Mountain Time.

This program will take place via the video conferencing app – ZOOM. Details for accessing the Zoom meeting will be with your receipt upon registering and again sent via email the day prior. Please register in advance in order to access the program.

Supplies needed for this class: 

• Strathmore 400 series Mixed-media drawing pad or Strathmore 400 series Hot-Press or pad/block or Bristol pad or Mixed-media drawing pad or any other brand of drawing pad in any size between 9” x 12” and 12” x 17”. Thicker paper (140 lb or higher) is better.
• A set of 2H, HB, 2B, & 6B graphite pencils
• 12” ruler.
• Eraser
• Pencil sharpener
• Blending stumps (AKA Tortillons, often comes with drawing pencil sets) and or Q-tips and tissues or cotton rags (clean pieces of old t-shirts work well).
• Masking tape to keep the paper flat especially if a larger pad is used
• Watercolor pencils
• Water-brush pens
• Optional: Water-soluble graphite pencil, charcoal pencils Medium (2B) and Soft/Dark (4B or 6B), Sakura Micron or similar brand water-proof pens in black and/or sepia
• Optional for warm-up practice: 11” x 14” or larger newsprint pad or sketch pad, Tombow Dual Tip Brush Pens in neutral colors, such as, gray and tan.

About the Instructor:

Sudeshna Sengupta’s career as a teaching artist spans multiple decades, continents, and cultures that inform her pedagogy for decolonizing studio art. She earned her Master of Fine Arts degree in 1985 from Visva-Bharati University, founded by the first non-European Nobel Laureate (1913) and humanist poet Rabindranath Tagore.

After teaching art and design at the college level in New Delhi, Seattle, and California, she taught at New Mexico State University-Alamogordo, where she established its first intaglio printmaking studio in 1995. Besides the O’Keeffe Museum, Sengupta teaches credit courses with the School of Art & Design of the Santa Fe Community College.

Her etchings and lithographs from the permanent collection of the National Gallery of Modern Art in New Delhi have been featured in a landmark exhibition on Women Printmakers of India at the NGMA-New Delhi in India. Her work is in the permanent collection of the National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi; Association Musée d’Art Contemporain, France; Kala Institute, Berkeley, and more.

Sengupta also conducts workshops, short courses, lectures, and community-based art events focusing on multicultural and intercultural experiences that emphasize human, cultural, and environmental connectedness through creativity.

To learn more, please visit notes-and-doodles.com and visit her Instagram @santafe_online_art_studio

This class is being offered on a sliding scale.

$10 minimal fee.

$20 covers the cost of the class.

$30 covers the cost of the class, plus a contribution to support educational programs.