Field Session

SUN-FS-10: Sketch D.C.: Uncovering Curious Patterns and Hidden Symbols

Sunday, October 6, 2024

9:00am – 5:00pm ET

Location: Walter E. Washington Convention Center, Room 140A

Sponsored By

4.75 PDH, LA CES/non-HSW, AICP, NY/non-HSW, FL
Ticket Price: $105 per person

Field Session Leader(s)

Chip Sullivan, FASLA (he/him/his)

Professor
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, California

Session Guide
Robert Chipman, ASLA

Principal
Robert Chipman Landscape Architect, Inc
West Lake Hills, Texas

Session Guide

Field Session Presenter(s)

Kelly A. Curl, ASLA (she/her/hers)

Associate Professor
Colorado State University
Professor, Colorado
David David de la Peña (he/him/his)

Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture
University of California, Davis
Berkeley, California

Join fellow drawing enthusiasts for a day of sketching through our nation’s capital, exploring the history of its urban spaces, symbolic meanings, and manipulation of perspective as a design tool. Bring drawing materials, weather-appropriate clothing, and comfortable shoes. Sketchbooks will be provided and displayed at SKETCH! Studio.

Includes: all-day metro SmartTrip® pass, Sketchbook, catered lunch. Extensive walking.

Learning Outcomes:

Explore the evolution, symbolic meaning, and perspective optics of the historic plan of Washington DC and its open spaces, monuments, and public museums.
Discover a variety of the best road-tested materials for sketching, as well as methods for rapid recording with a pen, quick watercolor painting, and journaling for design explorations and capturing spirit of place.
Use thumbnails, rapid sketching, simplified perspective, and other field techniques to quickly explore alternative compositions and to select a strong central sketch idea.
Learn strategies for editing, composition, simplifying detail, and using color strategically that make sketching less rigid and more accessible.