Urban Sketching Workshops
seethelines Morocco Travel Sketching Workshop
Oct 25 – Nov 2, 2024
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
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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.