Online Class: Perspective Basics for Urban Sketching

In this class, learn the basics of linear perspective and atmospheric perspective. Through interactive demos and instruction, teaching artist Sudeshna Sengupta will break down the key principles of these approaches to create depth and dimension in your own on-location sketches.

While this class compliments the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum’s popular in-person Urban Sketching classes, it also serves as a stand-alone topic that will benefit anyone looking to start or strengthen their own urban sketching practice anywhere in the world.

For a deeper dive into the tools and techniques that can be used for urban sketching, join the online class Preparation for Urban Sketching | Tools & Techniques on Friday, July 18.

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This class is suitable for youth ages 12 and up. Children are welcome to participate alongside their adults.

This program will take place via the video conferencing app – ZOOM. Details for accessing the Zoom meeting will be with your receipt upon registration and again sent via email the day prior. Please register in advance to access the program.

Note that all program times are in Mountain Time. Space is limited, reservations required.

Supplies needed for this class: 

• 11″ x 15″ or larger Strathmore Mixed-Media pad or Bristol drawing pad or similar.
• HB, 2B, 6B graphite pencils.
• White eraser.
• Blending stump or Q-tips.
• 12″ or 18″ ruler.
• Glue stick.
• Optional: 2H pencil, tracing paper or wax paper to keep the collage process clean, waterproof ink pen in Black and or Sepia color for additional details, apair of scissors or an x-acto knife
• Ability to print black-and-white reference image of a building (to be provided via email closer to the class date)

About the Instructor:

Sudeshna Sengupta’s career as a teaching artist spans multiple decades, continents, and cultures that inform her pedagogy for decolonizing studio art. She earned her Master of Fine Arts degree in 1985 from Visva-Bharati University, founded by the first non-European Nobel Laureate (1913) and humanist poet Rabindranath Tagore.

After teaching art and design at the college level in New Delhi, Seattle, and California, she taught at New Mexico State University-Alamogordo, where she established its first intaglio printmaking studio in 1995. Besides the O’Keeffe Museum, Sengupta teaches credit courses with the School of Art & Design of the Santa Fe Community College.

Her etchings and lithographs from the permanent collection of the National Gallery of Modern Art in New Delhi have been featured in a landmark exhibition on Women Printmakers of India at the NGMA-New Delhi in India. Her work is in the permanent collection of the National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi; Association Musée d’Art Contemporain, France; Kala Institute, Berkeley, and more.

Sengupta also conducts workshops, short courses, lectures, and community-based art events focusing on multicultural and intercultural experiences that emphasize human, cultural, and environmental connectedness through creativity.

To learn more, please visit notes-and-doodles.com and visit her Instagram @santafe_online_art_studio

This class is being offered on a sliding scale.

$10 minimal fee.

$20 covers the cost of the class.

$30 covers the cost of the class, plus a contribution to support educational programs.