Os Évora Sketchers vão integrar o "Traço 17 - Festival de Desenho do Alentejo", organizado pela AIAR, realizando o seu encontro de Outubro no dia 14. Será também um encontro nacional de Urban Sketchers promovido pelos USkP.
To
celebrate the 10th anniversary of Urban Sketchers, three USk Portugal
Association groups worked together to create a series of 10x10
workshops. Luís
Ançã, a spokesperson for the event, describes how three regional
sketching groups from Évora, Raia and Beja worked together to design a
structure for the 10x10 workshops. Each group selected three themes, for
its city, focussing on different aspects of their cities. They choose
the locations with a view to telling a small, medium and big story about
the location. It was important to the groups to highlight the unique
spirit of the location and so, in the workshops, the instructors made
sure that participants knew about the history and the stories embedded
in the site.
Luís
adds, “When you draw, it’s important to feel the atmosphere of the
place. Focussing on storytelling makes you understand better what
surrounds you. And this understanding is a way to better seeing and
representing the subject.” In
Alentejo, the Museum of Craft was chosen for the small story, the
medium story focussed on the side of the city that the tourist usually
doesn’t see and the big story was to draw the human figure in the
Convent of St. Francisco of Evora. In
Elvas, the participants went to the Military Museum, the Forte de Sant
Luzia and covered traditional local crafts for the big story. In Beja, they drew at the Jorge Vieira Museum, Beja Castle and in the area of the Wollemi Pine Tree and Autochthonous Trees.
The last workshop was titled, When Marble becomes Alive, at the Villa Vicosa.
Luís
reflects on the course, saying, “that it was a way to say thanks to USk
and an excellent way to improve the skills of the sketchers and
showcase the culture of our region.”