Italian Forum: Architectural Sketching in Situ.

Drawing amongst the colonnades and Roman features of the public piazza - observe key architectural elements of the Forum and learn to use line, shape and colour to simplify and help you explore your personal response to this space through the medium of pencil and pen.

Look at framing and composition and see how you can use classical proportions and elements to give definition to your drawings. Add a Tuscan colour palette to your works to enhance them and link them strongly to place.

Observe architecture ‘in action’ as part of a community, record these traces of daily life.

Library resources on architectural drawing can be found HERE

We may take photographs of the facilitators and the participants at this event. Read here for more details.

About the Facilitator

ELINOR PICKARD is a designer & teacher at Sydney Community College and sketchbook group facilitator. She also enjoys urban sketching and capturing the interactions between people, and the human figure within the built urban environment. An attentive and encouraging art educator, Elinor has been teaching adults since 2016. She has also run regular children’s art classes since 2015.

LEICHHARDT LIBRARY is accessible from street level and via lift from the car park.

If you have any access or support requirements in order to participate fully, please let us know in the booking order form to ensure that we can arrange any reasonable adjustments. Please note: the venue is accessible for people using wheelchairs and other mobility aids.