USk Workshop: Confident Urban Sketching with Watercolor and Ink by Ruud Otten
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About the workshop:
Build confidence in urban sketching with pen and watercolor, focusing on fast and loose lines, clear color choices, and trusting your instincts. You’ll learn practical techniques to work faster, hesitate less, and further develop your own sketching style.
In his workshop Ruud guides you with easy-to-apply tips and techniques to help you take your urban sketches to the next level. You’ll learn how to look more consciously at composition and how to use color, contrast, and focus to strengthen your sketches, while gaining more confidence with watercolor and ink.
Over the 2 days, the workshop will be divided into 5 parts:
Session 1: Introduction & Learning Framework
Session 2: Observations and Thumbnail Studies
Session 3: Building Blocks and Line Sketching
Session 4: Color Application and Experimentation
Session 5: Contrast, Focus and Highlights.
The workshop takes place in a friendly group of like-minded sketchers, with plenty of time to sketch yourself and receive personal tips tailored to your own way of working. You’ll receive a mini palette with Ruud’s handmade watercolor paints to keep, and discover how a more fluent sketching style can make the process more enjoyable. After the workshop, you’ll return home recharged, with fresh inspiration, beautiful sketches, lasting memories, and a renewed creative boost.
Timetable
12 hours of instruction: Saturday September 12 and Sunday September 13, 10:00–17:00 (with a one-hour lunch break; lunch not included)
Workshop Fee
Per participant: NOK 3200
Participants can book through the booking website of Urban Sketchers Oslo via https://event.checkin.no/217532/-confident-urban-sketching-with-watercolor-and-ink-ruud-otten-workshop-in-oslo-by-usk-oslo
For more information visit: https://urbansketchers.org/2026/06/15/usk-workshop-confident-urban-sketching-with-watercolor-and-ink/
Build confidence in urban sketching with pen and watercolor, focusing on fast and loose lines, clear color choices, and trusting your instincts. You’ll learn practical techniques to work faster, hesitate less, and further develop your own sketching style.
In his workshop Ruud guides you with easy-to-apply tips and techniques to help you take your urban sketches to the next level. You’ll learn how to look more consciously at composition and how to use color, contrast, and focus to strengthen your sketches, while gaining more confidence with watercolor and ink.
Over the 2 days, the workshop will be divided into 5 parts:
Session 1: Introduction & Learning Framework
Session 2: Observations and Thumbnail Studies
Session 3: Building Blocks and Line Sketching
Session 4: Color Application and Experimentation
Session 5: Contrast, Focus and Highlights.
The workshop takes place in a friendly group of like-minded sketchers, with plenty of time to sketch yourself and receive personal tips tailored to your own way of working. You’ll receive a mini palette with Ruud’s handmade watercolor paints to keep, and discover how a more fluent sketching style can make the process more enjoyable. After the workshop, you’ll return home recharged, with fresh inspiration, beautiful sketches, lasting memories, and a renewed creative boost.
Timetable
12 hours of instruction: Saturday September 12 and Sunday September 13, 10:00–17:00 (with a one-hour lunch break; lunch not included)
Workshop Fee
Per participant: NOK 3200
Participants can book through the booking website of Urban Sketchers Oslo via https://event.checkin.no/217532/-confident-urban-sketching-with-watercolor-and-ink-ruud-otten-workshop-in-oslo-by-usk-oslo
For more information visit: https://urbansketchers.org/2026/06/15/usk-workshop-confident-urban-sketching-with-watercolor-and-ink/
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Where is it happening?
Oslo Norway, Prinsens gate 3A, 0152 Oslo, Norge, Oslo, Norway
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Host or PublisherUrban Sketchers
