PIBC Sketch School: Drawing environments for planning

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PIBC - SCC Summer Sketch School:

Plein Air Fundamentals with SCARP sessional instructor Erick Villagomez!

Welcome to PIBC Summer Sketch School, hosted by the South Coast Chapter, in collaboration with Erick Villagomez! The series is intended to cover a variety of drawing fundamentals related to different environments and topics, building sequentially from one session to another. Although each session can be stand-alone and people of all skills and levels are welcome accordingly, the most benefits will come from attending all in the sequence provided.

Each session will be based on the following themes (click each to register):

• July 11: Natural Environments and Landscapes - Trout Lake (John Hendry) Park

• July 12: Urban and Built Environments - Main Street-Science World Station

• July 19: Values - Grandview-Woodland/Commercial Drive

Please bring your own sketchbook and drawing utensils. A pencil and pen is recommended. For the session on values, it is recommended to bring drawing utensils in a variety of values (lights to darks).

These sessions are expected to fill up fast. Please cancel your registration if you can no longer attend so that someone on the waitlist can join.

On Erick Villagomez

Erick Villagomez is an educator, independent researcher and designer with academic and professional interests in the human settlements at all scales. He an adjunct professor at Kwantlen Polytechnic University’s Chip and Shannon Wilson School of Design within the Interior Design program and at UBC's School of Community and Regional Planning, teaching urban design. For several years, he was also an adjunct professor at the University of British Columbia’s School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture where he taught a number of graduate and undergraduate courses focused on settlements. Erick is the founding principal of Metis Design-Build — a practice that works on diverse projects ranging from small-scale architecture to urban design consulting — and the Editor-in-Chief of Spacing Vancouver, an online publication looking at Metro Vancouver’s public realm and urban landscape. Urban cartography and illustration are also a part of Erick’s diverse practice. Constantly drawing and painting digitally, he maintains a bi-weekly urban sketching column called Visual Thoughts on Spacing Vancouver. You can see some of his artistic gallivants at http://evillago.tumblr.com/

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