FRI-FS-09: SKETCH SF! Drawn Through the Heart of San Francisco

Friday, November 11, 2022

9:00am – 4:30pm PT

Location: Moscone Center, Room 101

Sponsored By

4.00 PDH, LA CES/non-HSW, AICP, FL, NY/non-HSW
Ticket Price: $95 per person; includes water, catered lunch, and sketchbook. Extensive walking.

Field Session Leader(s)

Chip Sullivan, FASLA

Professor
UC Berkeley
Berkeley, California
Robert Chipman, ASLA

Principal
Robert Chipman Landscape Architect, Inc
West Lake Hills, Texas

Field Session Presenter(s)

James Richards, FASLA

Owner
JamesRichardsSketchbook.com
Sarasota, Florida
Richard Alomar, ASLA

Professor
Rutgers University
New York, New York

Join fellow drawing enthusiasts for a day of on-location sketching through the heart of San Francisco’s urban plazas, streetscapes, and public art. Bring your favorite drawing and watercolor materials and comfortable walking shoes; accordion sketchbooks will be provided. Sketchbooks will be displayed at the ASLA EXPO.

Learning Outcomes:

• Explore the unique historical evolution of the urban plaza, streetscape design and spatial implications of public art in the urban fabric.
• Employ a variety of the best road-tested materials for observation and recording urban life. Pen, Ink and watercolor will be used for design explorations and capturing sense of place.
• Apply thumbnails, rapid sketching, simplified perspective, and other field techniques to quickly explore alternative compositions and to select a strong central sketch idea.
• Learn strategies for editing, composition, simplifying detail, and using color to make sketching less rigid and more accessible.