Lluís Bruguera

Lluís Bruguera is an artist from the Empordà, an area north of Barcelona by the Mediterranean coast. For some time now, sketching nature has become for him a major artistic practice. The simultaneous emergence of the Urban Sketcher movement had a lot to do with this. The need to link colour to a specific form is not the starting point of his work, but the point of arrival. This assumption has generated interest in him in the form of workshops, talks, newspaper reports etc. where he highlightes the importance of the gaze and its translation in the richness of short forms in art.

Workshop: Sketching in watercolor; “lost and found”

Description and objectives of the workshop:

The watercolor process is the closest thing to a conversation between you and the image you are building. You need to look for the internal logic but, above all, to give yourself time to respond. And try not to impose ideas that do not fit in the direction in which the “conversation” is progressing.

On the other hand, an image – especially when it comes to watercolor – can contain information that has reached it without you consciously understanding how it happened. If you are not involved and alert, you may miss the opportunity to embody it or you may have to work twice as hard to achieve it.

With all that you have just read, I want to tell you that you need to explore the unexpected consequences of the experimentation that goes into the process of making a watercolor sketch. Rely on your intuition while you’re working and your intellect when analyze the image. However, do not correct what it still doesn’t exist; allow things to happen. Perhaps, it will be necessary to assume irreconcilable elements with each other, because they are part of the reality of the moment.

We’ll talk about all that, and more!

Items:

  • The shape of wash
  • The ability to suggest and express the sensations received; the pause and the silences, the wait.
  • The accent and the character
  • The punctuation marks
  • The presence and absence of the form
  • The negative space

Materials:

  • a bottle of water, a glass, a cloth, Kleenex tissues
  • the box of watercolors
  • a board
  • pencil: 2 H or 3 H
  • several watercolour pencils type Caran D’Ache
  • notebooks or watercolor papers (recommended: 300 g / 100% cotton) no larger than 26 x 36 cm
  • a stool
  • calibrated pens or markers if you usually use them
  • round watercolor brushes no. 12 or 14; 8 or 6; and 4; and also some flat ones.
  • a little candle

In short, the materials that any sketcher would normally use.

Saturday, March 15th, 10 to 13 - Morning workshop: W2 (M) - Lluís Bruguera
Workshop's Language: Catalan/Spanish (English)
Location: Umbracle del Parc de la Ciutadella