Sketching with O'Connell

Sketching the New Year

2011-12-22T12:21:00.001-08:00

Season's Greetings and a Happy New Year

I wish all of you good health and please continue to work in your sketchbook as part of your good health program in 2012.

Workshops in 2012

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Planned workshops:
Feb 11 in Salem at "The Art Department" store (one day). http://artdepartmentsupply.com/
March 17 a "Drop in Studio" at the UO Duck shop (two hours). http://myduckstore.com/creativeduck/index.cfm
July 7 and 8th Sitka Center for Art and Technology on the Oregon Coast (two days). http://www.sitkacenter.org
September 2-16 "Sketchbooks in Italy" (14 days) (For more information contact me at ken@copicmarker.com)

Inside the churches of Umbria

2011-10-11T10:06:00.000-07:00

This quick sketch on the left was made in the Church of San Francisco in the small hill town of Narni, Italy. The sketch on the right was made in the Duomo in Orvieto.

group photo 2010 LaRomita

2011-09-29T20:47:00.000-07:00

We always have a wonderful time in Italy.

This group photo was taken in the courtyard at LaRomita, 2 hours north of Rome.
People were from Arizona, California, Texas, Chicago, Virginia, Oregon and Washington.

Room at La Romita, Italy

2011-08-25T19:21:00.000-07:00

The walls are actually white, but as the setting sun shines into this bedroom at La Romita the color is a warm yellow.

2011-08-15T10:31:00.000-07:00

Sketchbooks in Italy 2012- I now have the first mailing of information about my 14 day workshop in Italy September 2 -16, 2012. Please send me a mailing address if you want the information, a FAQ sheet, and registration form.

oconnell@uoregon.edu

New workshop on travel sketching at Oasis in Macy's at Valley River Center, Eugene.

Sept 30, Oct. 7, 14, 21, 2011.

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Workshop on Travel Sketching at DIVA in Eugene, Oregon.

Saturday

August 6, 2011 10am-430pm

Sunday

August 7, 2011 1pm-430pm

The focus is on ways to use your sketchbook to further enjoy and intensify your experiences. Bring simple tools and a sketchbook.

UO Baker Downtown Center

975 High St.

tel. 541.344.3482

diva.programs@gmail.com

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Sketching in Italy using watercolor, Copic Markers, and/or colored pencils is the way I like to work. I also teach the use of brown ink or Sepia ink because the warm line fits very well with the tile roof tops, brick buildings and stone walkways of Italy.

We'll eat Italian food by our local cooks and learn through sketching how to see and understand this remarkable place.

To learn more about La Romita School of Art go to www.laromita.org

My email is ken@copicmarker.com

Italy sketch workshop

2011-07-06T17:13:00.001-07:00

I'm now sending out registration forms for my September 2-16, 2012
workshop. Send me an email for the form. More to follow.

2011-06-01T00:17:00.000-07:00

Windows in Rome, Italy.

I will be teaching in Italy at the LaRomita School of Art next year September 2 -16, 2012. More details soon.
I'm teaching on the Oregon Coast this week at the Sitka Center for Art and Ecology.
If you want to take classes this summer go to www.laromita.org

Laurie Doctor, who taught with me last summer, is offering her own workshop this summer.
Check it out at
http://www.lauriedoctor.com/workshops/2011/italy2011.htm

2011-05-11T20:29:00.000-07:00

This sketch was done in Germany last winter. My friends just emailed me and said that it is in full bloom now.
My next workshop is at the Sitka Center on the Oregon Coast. Contact them at http://www.sitkacenter.org/
My workshop is full but they offer many wonderful classes throughout the summer. Ask for their list of classes to be sent to you.

April Workshops

2011-04-03T19:40:00.000-07:00

April workshops- I'm doing a brief demo at the UO Duck Store April 9th, 2-4pm, about using the Copic Air Brush System. I'll show ways that I use it in the sketchbook.
April 12 I'm talking about sketchbooks in Phoenix, Arizona. In May I'll do a workshop in Eugene but dates and location are not set. More information to soon follow.

2011-03-21T10:41:00.000-07:00

The sketchbook exhibit at the DIVA in Eugene continues through April 29, 2011.

April 9th, Saturday from 2-4pm I'll do a demo of the Copic Air Brush System (ABS) at the Duck Store by UO campus. This system uses the Copic markers as the ink or dye and can provide a number of effects when developing your images in or out of the sketchbook.

If the Sitka workshop fills and you want to hear about other workshops, please write me via email and ask to be on my personal mailing list.

Erik Johnson, a friend and artist, has just published a series of small works called WINTER DRAWINGS. Look at this site to preview the whole book. http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/detail/2031109

Exhibit continues

2011-02-28T22:39:00.000-08:00

Join us from 5:30 and 8:30PM on March 4th (First Friday Art Walk) for the opening of a new exhibit at DIVA's "Outpost Gallery" 280 W. Broadway. DIVA will continue the show of Italian Landscapes: Sketchbook Drawings by Kenneth O'Connell and Pen and Marker Drawings by Marianne Walker. The show will go through April. The books "The Spirit of the Rough Sketch" and "Sketching With Copic" will be available for purchase at the gallery. Both publications include many of his sketchbook images. "Sketching With Copic" also includes the artwork of 10 other artists using Copic markers and pens. Marianne Walker has her latest book, "Shadows and Shading - a guide to working with the effects of lighting and shading in artwork" also on sale.

2011-02-13T13:13:00.000-08:00

This was done with Copic Sketch markers and black Multiliner pen at Depot Bay on the Central Oregon Coast. Speaking of the Oregon Coast I'll teach a two day workshop on "Spirit of the Rough Sketch" June 27, 28, 2011 at Sitka Center for Art and Ecology near Lincoln City, Oregon. http://www.sitkacenter.org

2011-01-26T10:10:00.000-08:00

Draw with Sepia ink for a change. This was drawn with the Copic Mutiliner Sepia ink pen in Venice, Italy.

I'll teach Sketchbooks in Italy Sept. 2-16, 2012.

I like the warm quality of this line for sketching.

This is the cover for the book Sketching With Copic® available through Blurb.com at

http://www.blurb.com/books/1931123

2010-12-20T11:40:00.000-08:00

Sitka Center for Art and Ecology, on the Oregon Coast, offers my Spirit of the Rough Sketch workshop June 27, 28, 2011.

Check out sitkacenter.org

If you want to be on my workshop mailing list, please email me at oconnell@uoregon.edu

Cobalt blue in the sketchbook

2010-12-14T22:15:00.000-08:00

Sketching from the amazing display of Chinese ceramics in the San Francisco airport. Cobalt blue glaze brush work was very popular in the Ming period.

2010-11-30T11:28:00.000-08:00

2011 Sketchbook Workshops in the near future.

A new book with sketches by O'Connell and 10 artists, Sketching With Copic®, on blurb.com click on "bookstore."

Travel Sketchbooks

Oasis for seniors (50 years and better) at Macy's in Eugene (second floor, beyond women's underwear).

$40.00 for 4 sessions of 2 hours each. Jan. 28, Feb. 4, 11, 18, 2011.

Sketchbooks and Food

Drop in Studio at UO Duck Shop in Eugene.

March 5, 2011 2-4 pm., free.

2010-10-28T11:35:00.000-07:00

Among my traditions in the sketchbook is sketching food, especially pastry, before eating. In Italy this summer I provided some pastry, but each person had to sketch before they ate.

As a demonstration I took a piece and sketched it with pencil, yellow brush pen, Sepia ink pen and purple marker. Limited tools are often useful in getting you to combine the colors in shadows on and off the subject. Treat pastry like a miniature landscape.

Note the top of the pastry looks whiter than the paper around it because of the contrast of the dark shadow.

2010-09-27T10:09:00.000-07:00

This was the title page for my Sketchbook/Journal number 60. I started it in the Frankfurt, Germany airport on my way to teach in Italy. The 4th Edition of the Drawing book by Enstice and Peters features this page in their sketchbook section. It is color here and will be in black and white in the printed book. This has images from Rome, Siena, Frankfurt, and a pastry shop.

Sketching in Italy

2010-09-19T14:39:00.000-07:00

Here is a photo taken by Roz Waugh in Stroncone, Italy last month. We have set our sketchbooks out after working in this hill town in Umbria. Barbara, Laurie, and Judi look on as I comment about one of the sketches.

2010-09-13T12:06:00.000-07:00

Sketchbooks in Italy workshop just concluded and the afterglow of the people, the food, the places are still fresh in my memory. This sketch was done on the edge of the Northern wall of Assisi. We paused to take in the landscape before beginning our journey to the churches of St. Francis of Assisi.

2010-09-04T07:54:00.000-07:00

I'm back from teaching Sketchbooks in Italy 2010. The title page for Sketchbook Number 71 was drawn in Venice, Italy.
I'll keep adding images from the current sketchbook each week on Saturdays. Italy was another wonderful experience.

2010-08-01T11:36:00.001-07:00

I'm off to teach in Italy this August. My next scheduled Sketchbook workshop is in November in Portland, Oregon through the Sitka Center for Art and Ecology. It is full and has a waiting list. Please add your name to the waiting list.

Start a new sketchbook and keep working in the old one.

2010-05-29T22:18:00.000-07:00

Travel Sketchbooks
July 15, 16 in Portland
White Stag Building
University of Oregon
800-824-2714

Clay Space - July 21,22

Eugene, Oregon

Spirit of the Rough Sketch
Sitka Center for the Arts
July 27,28, 2010

www.sitkacenter.org

LaRomita, Italy
August 18- September 1
North of Rome

Sudden Sketchbook Workshop
June 5, Pam's Studio in Eugene,
1 pm- 4 pm

2010-03-21T14:54:00.000-07:00

Sketchbook Workshops by Ken O'Connell for 2010

Sketchbook Workshop at CLAY SPACE,
May 22,23 in Eugene, Oregon.
Call 541.653.8089 for registration details.

Drop in Studio at UO Bookstore May 15.
2-4 pm.
Special meeting with Director of LaRomita School of Art March 31 in Eugene and April 1 in Portland.

The Dalles Oregon April 10, 2010
Salem, Oregon, The Art Department Store May 1, 2010
Eugene, Oregon, The DUCK Store- Open Studio May 15, 2010
UO Center, White Stag, Portland July 15,16, 2010
Sitka Center July 27,28, 2010
La Romita, Italy August 18- September 1, 2010
Sitka Special Workshops in Portland, November 14, 2010

Sketchbook Workshops in 2010

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Sketchbook workshops coming to Portland, The Dalles, etc. soon.

The Dalles Workshop April 10, 2010.
Sitka Workshop July 27,28, 2010

Link to Oregonian article:
http://www.oregonlive.com/travel/index.ssf/2009/12/a_life_in_68_sketchbooks.html

Also, Calligrapher and Book Artist Laurie Doctor will be assisting me in Italy. Her website:
http://www.lauriedoctor.com

2009-10-23T12:49:00.000-07:00

Sketchbooks in Italy

August 18 to September 1, 2010

Ken is now sending out applications for this coming summer workshop at LaRomita School of Art in Umbria. He will take 16-18 people with him for two weeks in the hill towns of Italy. Please email him for application and information.

oconnell@uoregon.edu

Telephone 541.953.0190

Workshop cost is $3,450.00 for art instruction, room and board, and local transportation. Airfare is not included. We are picked up from the Rome airport on August 18 before noon and returned to the airport on September 1, 2010 before 10:00am.

Workshops 2009-2010

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Spirit of the Rough Sketch
Weekend workshop JUNE 6-7, 2009
SITKA CENTER FOR ART & ECOLOGY Tel. (541) 994-5485
www.sitkacenter.org/

(Art Center on the Oregon Coast near Lincoln City.)

Look at these websites for information on sketching
http://web.mac.com/stoughton/iWeb/Travel/ItalySketchbook.html
http://www.janesanha.com
http://www.laromita.com

http://www.copicmarker.com

Italy 2010 _ towns to sketch

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Some of cities and hill towns we will visit are :

ASSISI (mystical home of St. Francis)
PERUGIA (a capitol of the Etruscan confederation)
SPOLETO (home of the "Festival of Two Worlds")
SAN GEMINI (medieval hilltop jewel)
STRONCONE (classic walled town)
SCHEGGINO (riverside known for trout and truffles)
LABRO (spills down the hillside like frosting)
CASSATA D. MARORE (amazing waterfall)
ORVIETO (the incredible cathedral)

and more . . . .

Sketchbooks in Italy 2010

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Last two weeks in August, 2010

Kenneth O'Connell is a Professor Emeritus at the University of Oregon and President of Imagination International, Inc. He will teach a two week sketchbook workshop in Italy during the last half of August of 2010. The workshop is located one hour north of Rome in the Umbrian countryside near the town of Terni.

We will stay in an remodeled old monastery where our meals will be prepared daily by the resident staff. Each morning we will travel with sketchbooks in hand to nearby hill towns for drawing and painting. Our afternoons will be spent in the studio at La Romita School of Art. In the evenings there will be a chance to relax, work independently, view slides or share ideas and stories.

Air travel is not included, although a van will be provided to transport people from the airport in Rome to La Romita School of Art. The cost for accommodations (based on double occupancy), all local ground transportation via private bus, most meals and art instruction is about $ 3,450. A rebate of $200 is given to returnees. A single room supplement is an additional $150 per week. A deposit of $500 is required by January 1, 2010 to secure registration.

For more information or to sign up for this workshop please contact Ken O'Connell via email : oconnell@uoregon.edu
or phone : ( 5 4 1 ) 9 5 3 - 0 1 9 0.

For more information about La Romita Art School go to :
www.laromita.com