Friday Urban Sketching

Name: Friday Urban Sketching
Start: 2025-08-22T10:00:00+01:00
End: 2025-08-22T12:00:00+01:00
Location: NYAS Shop, 33 St Nicholas Cliff, Scarborough, YO11 2ES

Schedule

Fri Aug 22 2025 at 10:00 am to 12:00 pm

UTC+01:00

Location

NYAS Shop, 33 St Nicholas Cliff, Scarborough, YO11 2ES | Scarborough, EN

For this free-to-attend class we will meet at the North Yorks Art School shop on St. Nicholas Cliff, next to the Grand Hotel, then spend the morning exploring the sights of Scarborough and learn to look at things. Buildings, flowers, people. Our goal as artists is to be aware of the world around us more acutely. To pull it apart. To analyse how it hangs together. The rhythm of life. Its shape, colour, texture, tone.
Then there's your application. The way you make marks is a world in itself and being in a group means you're likely to pick up tips and techniques that will help your drawings and paintings develop over time. Tuition and feedback is on offer from NYAS tutor and coach Colin Powell.
It's perhaps some sort of paradox that all this tuning in coincides with a kind of dropping out. Intense focus helps you forget the world of worry. Your concentration on the task at hand does strange things with time. It flies and yet you feel elated and a good sort of tired when done. It's a sort of work out for the brain that connects you with your surroundings in ways you're not used to.
Fridays
10am - 12pm with Colin Powell
This class will start from:
North Yorks Art School Shop
33 St. Nicholas Cliff
Scarborough
YO11 2BP
Please bring along your own drawing pad, pens, pencils paint etc... that you will need and don't worry if the weather isn't looking too good, there are plenty of indoor places to explore and sketch in Scarborough.