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The Urban Sketching Handbook Understanding Light

ABOUT THE BOOK

The Urban Sketching Handbook: Understanding Light is an informative guide to heightening the impact of your artwork by capturing the look and subtleties of light in any scene.

In settings ranging from fields and mountains at daybreak to neon cityscapes at midnight, learn how to express light effects through color and value to improve and refine your drawings and paintings.

Artist and urban sketcher Katie Woodward offers strategies for:  

  • Selectively translating values for maximum effect

  • Using your sketchbook to experiment with the effects of natural as well as artificial light

  • Considering many options for visual solutions through work contributed by experienced urban sketchers 

Master the art of rendering light with The Urban Sketching Handbook: Understanding Light as your guide.

The Urban Sketching Handbook series offers location artists expert instruction on creative techniques, on-location tips and advice, and an abundance of visual inspiration. These handy references come in a compact, easy-to-carry format—perfect to toss in your backpack or artist’s tote.

GET YOUR COPY

Understanding Light is available internationally, in English, French, Spanish, and Dutch. It is available in paperback and Kindle versions. There are shopping links below, but you should also be able to order from whatever bookshop or site you use to buy books.

REVIEWS

"Amazing, information, thought provoking, and intriguing. I now have a desire to…sketch…but…with a new eye to doing so. I kept going “hmm” as my mind was opened to “seeing” what I have seen so many times before but wanting to go back to see it…through eyes that have just been educated. There is so much information in this book that builds chapter by chapter. I will never see the world around me quite as I did before."

Cathy

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