Barcelona Sketching Exercises

This sketching exercise will focus on perception in the city. You will use techniques we have begun to practice to create drawings the distinguished distance in space and distance in time.
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Technique
Use measuring technique to set up each drawing. Plan your subject and frame. Set up the perspective(s). These can get messy in a medieval city.
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Use negative space to block out light and shadow relationships.
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Use contour (wandering line) to create multiple horizons in your sketch.
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Media
This work will be performed at medium size, about 6x10 or larger. It will be
Freehand work using soft lead pencils. Erase infrequently. Leave mistakes alone and leave them behind. Start with lighter lines, build toward more depth. These will not be pristine, they will be worked.
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Distance in space
Minimalist artists recognized the importance of perception at three specific locations relative to a work: distant, midrange and close up. This recognition caused them to pay attention to the quality of their work in the mind of a viewer across a spatial spectrum. While form and edge may be the most perceptible qualities at distance, it is texture and pattern that gain attention at close range. Consider this.
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Distance in time
We are in a city that exists over a vast course of time, much of which is visible  contemporaneously. It is the conceptual task of these sketches to make this collapse in time apparent through faithful attention to difference. If you draw selectively and accurately your sketch will open the window between times.
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This is not a diagram. This is a naturalistic drawing with a conceptual emphasis.
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Sites
Medieval City
PARC Guell
Free choice