Field Sketching
A collection of settings and studies
Observations
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Color
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Zooming-in
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Texture
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Light
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Connections
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Observations 〰️ Color 〰️ Zooming-in 〰️ Texture 〰️ Light 〰️ Connections 〰️
FIELD SKETCHING
Canada, Italy & United States
Summer Study Abroad & 3rd Year Sketching School
Instructors: Radoslav Zuk, David Covo, Robert Mellin
Independent Work
Summer 2011 & 2013
Sketching is an intensely personal practice. It is not only one of the most expressive ways of communicating an idea, but one of the best means of recording that we have as architects. A sketch can not only bring you back to the exact place and time it was drawn; it contains the feelings felt and all of the connotations related to the moment you drew it; an eidetic snapshot of a personal experience.
- There is a Skill to Looking -
Color & Form
Unlike other fast mediums, watercolour allows me to distill a subject not as an isolated object, but as something part of a context. With this simple, yet emotive medium, I have a means of studying architecture in relation to its setting; honing-in on the less noticeable details, and looking at how materials appear from close-up, and from a distance. Light and colour breathe life and weave a nostalgic quality into a scene.
- Sheds -
- Clocktower -
- Coastal Studies -
Observing Elements
Every sketch provides an opportunity to observe a scene as an agglomeration of elements; a tree-line, a stoney cliffside, or a sweeping beach head can make up a Bay, a Point, or perhaps a Fjord. The act of sketching allows me to depict a scene with its most interesting elements in mind, whilst maintaining its place in the hierarchy of its context. In giving inconspicuous things this added attention, magnifying some detail often teaches myself or a viewer of an element’s particular organization or inherent structure.