Urban Sketching Workshops
Paris Workshop
Prague Sketching Retreat
July 2 – 6, 2025
Morocco Group Adventure
May 17 – 26, 2025
South of Spain Group Trip
March 9-16, 2025
Testimonials
Join Alán Ramiro for a full day of urban sketching in Paris!
WHERE: Meet-up in front of Passage des Panoramas. Full details sent in email.
WHEN: Saturday, February 22, 2025
PRICE: €97 (Early Bird – 1 spot left!)
BONUS: Includes a FREE month of online workshops – Scenes of Paris in March! (Value of €79)
WHAT TO EXPECT: Spend a full day sketching the heart of Paris, sharpening your perspective and watercolor techniques. This immersive 8-hour workshop includes:
✔️ Morning workshop 3- hours sketching multiple scenes in a quicker format. Color pencil and monochrome value studies in watercolor.
✔️ We’ll take a midday lunch break (everyone covers their own meal, but we’ll dine together!).
✔️ Afternoon 3-hour ink & watercolor workshop
✔️ And—drinks the night before to kick things off! (Drinks not included, just the good company.)
Want to Practice Before?
Add the 12 best of Sketching Life workshop replays to your registration for only €47! That’s 24+ hours of detailed, narrated sketching instruction to revisit anytime.
Join Alán Ramiro for a week of travel sketching workshops organized by Pinceladas de Espana. Led by a local and private driver to all destinations, restaurants, and cultural experiences. 6 seethelines workshops are included.
WHERE: The trip visits Córdoba, Sevilla and Jerez de la Frontera.
WHEN: March 9-16, 2025.
(7 nights, 8 days)
Córdoba 3 nights
Sevilla 3 nights
Jerez 1 night
All skill levels welcome
Package options:
Lite: €899: Six seethelines workshops, two lunches, entrance tickets to monuments, travel insurance, private driver to travel between cities and places of interest, course diploma, and welcome dinner.
Standard: €1,599: All the Lite options plus airport transfers, shared room (double) accomodation. +€200 for single room supplement. Farewell dinner.
Upper: €2,399: All the Lite and Standard options plus single room accommodation. All dinners and lunches included.
Daily Option: The daily one-off option is available for unique cases. Prices depend on which day you attend.
Testimonials
Sketches from past Spain workshops
Photos from Past Experiences
Artistry vs. Efficiency: Comparing Two Sketches for Different Clients
In the world of urban sketching, each stroke of the pen, brush of the paint, and moment spent on paper is a dance between artistry and efficiency. It's a delicate balance, one that I've honed over the last 10 years of sketching, and even more so the last 2...
Budget Friendly Travel Sketching Assistant
For under $75 you can be sketching in comfort either sitting or standing out on-location. This set-up has served me well and easily packs up for quick on the move guerrilla sketcher style.Below are the three items with links to where to buy them.Save time, I vouch for...
True Grit: How One Designer Taught Himself to Draw and Became an International Artist
drawing on-location in a tower of la sagrada familia True Grit: How One Designer Taught Himself to Draw and Became an International Artist"Hand drawing has been in the architect’s arsenal since the beginning. The ability to sketch by hand presents the designer with...
Search Complete! Matboard Bulk Order Success
The process of searching for the most cost effective and highest value matboards.
Morocco Mission: Discover Magic Rug
A 10 hour mission to discover a long runner in the Medina of Marrakesh, Morocco.
This is Ron
This is Ron. Met him walking along Westwood boulevard, Los Angeles on a Sunday afternoon. Gave the man some change and he said he loved me. I said I love him too, put my tea down and adjusted myself for I knew we'd chat for some time. He shared some deep thoughts on...
Brooklyn Bridge and NYC Skyline
A commission piece for the New York Bagel Company in Brentwood, California. Step by step process from start to finish.
Thesis
The process of finding and formalizing a thesis for a degree project of architecture at Woodbury University.
Street Art Experiment
In late April 2014 I set out for a “street art experiment”. The idea is to do what I do normally, which is urban sketch anywhere and everywhere I desire, except this time make some cash while sketching…
A Self Taught Sketch Lesson on Learning Proportions
A beautiful afternoon spent at the Arc de Triomf of Barcelona. Here I breakdown the step by step process sketching this marvel. Proportions are key here!
Para garantir sua participação gratuita, você deve adquirir um ingresso para o show da Mariana Mug no Blue Note Rio, no dia 4 de dezembro.
Preço para estudantes: R$ 60
Preço regular: R$ 120
Por favor, compre seu ingresso aqui: https://www.eventim.com.br/artist/mariana-mug/
Venha me encontrar no show e garanta sua vaga no workshop!
Te vejo no Blue Note!
Mais informações sobre o local do workshop em breve.
Você receberá outro e-mail no dia 5 de dezembro com o ponto de encontro em Parque Lage para o workshop no dia 7 dezembro.
É necessário estar presente no show para ganhar seu passe de workshop gratuito
Muito obrigado!
Frequently Asked Questions
What supplies should I bring?
- Small pocket sketchbook for quick practice drawings.
- Watercolor sketchbook
- (1) color pencil (blue color preferred)
- Watercolor kit: (Windsor & Newton travel kit recommended) add colors: ultramarine blue, yellow ochre, alizarin crimson red.
- Brushes: 2 round brushes, 2 flat brushes, waterbrush also works.
- Permanent ink pens: Min. (3) line size pens or a fude nib fountain pen filled with ink, a black brush pen. (Pentel brand recommended.)
- Water/ cup and paper towel
- chair/ stool or stand-up easel
If I am completely new to urban/ architecture sketching, Is this workshop appropriate for me?
Yes absolutely and it is encouraged. We will work through foundation building for the complete beginner in a fun hit-the-ground-running way.
If I am more advanced will I still find value in this course?
The exciting thing about this workshop is that it will equip you with new ways to SEE. You will get unique professional architectural trained methodologies while discovering Alán’s particular technique and approach. But more than that you will return home with a boost of inspiration and vision to continue in your journey.
What if I cancel at the last minute?
Because we are a small group, last minute cancellations are nonrefundable.
Images of workshop experiences in Lisbon
Workshops Around The World
Images from New York. Mexico and Brazil
Your Host and Workshop Teacher
Alán Ramiro Manning | @seethelines
Alán Ramiro is on a passionate mission to create, connect, and serve through drawing and teaching on-location all around the world. A graduate of Woodbury University in Los Angeles, California, with 10 years of experience in the field of architecture, Alán combines creative and technical skills in the arts, design, and video storytelling.
With his Sketching Life workshops, Alán has expanded his reach by teaching online workshops every week and every month, inspiring over 500 students since the start of the year. In addition to his online presence, Alán also hosts workshops in a different city or country every month, with recent locations including Rome, Porto, Barcelona, Andalusia, and Morocco.
Boots on the ground, Alán is tangibly making an impact country to country by inspiring a movement to live in the moment, be yourself, create fearlessly, and take action on your dreams.
Reviews from Travel Workshops
Hello, we are the New York City chapter of the international group called Urban Sketchers. We had the pleasure of collaborating with Alán Ramiro Manning in November 2022 and presented our members with the opportunity to take his workshop “See the Lines-Shape and Sharpen the World Around You.”
Alán was very enthusiastic about these workshops and willing to collaborate with us. We met a few weeks before to talk about his ideas for the workshop, review his portfolio, pick a location, scout out sketching spots and discuss how to facilitate his workshop for our membership. I know he also went back multiple times on his own to the location to sketch and scout out the venue.
Alán gave two sessions, three hours each; both sessions sold out and were given in an indoor space in downtown Manhattan. The response from attendees was enthusiastic, and we look forward to working with Alán again on his next visit to New York.
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