City Sketching with Gavin Snider
Paint along as we learn about the urban landscape and sketching brownstone in Brooklyn, New York.
By The Art Toolkit Team
This is a live recording from our City Sketching demo with artist Gavin Snider from February 7th, 2024. In this demo, Gavin focused on sketching the quintessential architecture of Brooklyn, specifically the brownstone. He demonstrated how he builds up a watercolor painting from the blank page, “carving out” the painting with increasing levels of detail. Learn about composition using negative space, applying light and shadow, and approaching architectural and landscape elements in a painting.
Pull out your sketchbook, palette, and favorite brush, and download, Gavin’s reference photo to get started!
About Gavin
Gavin Snider lives and works in Brooklyn, New York, where he paints to slow down the world and draws to better understand the places and people around him. With a background in architecture, much of Gavin’s work focuses on buildings and cityscapes. A few times a week, he picks a location—whether a famous landmark or an unfamiliar neighborhood—packs up a notebook, and goes to paint. In a way, his paintings are a form of urbanism, the study of city life.
All images courtesy of Gavin.
