
Maru Godàs
Maru Godàs is from Barcelona. Formed as a graphic designer at the IDEP School of Design and the "Escola Superior de Disseny Llotja de Barcelona" she founded her own graphic design studio in Barcelona, providing graphic design services to publishers and agencies in Spain: RBA, Planeta, National Geographic, Salvat, etc.
She always had an illustration project on her hands and continued to paint with oils and gouache in her spare time. It was his true passion, and finally decided to dedicate it full time.
When she met the Urban Sketchers, new paths and new languages were opened, as well as the opportunity to travel and do workshops and lectures around the world. Also, to meet amazing people.
She loves all techniques: Chinese ink, oil, watercolor, and colored pencils, although she’s known for her drawings and workshops with gouache and acrylic paint.
She has collaborated on several illustrated books and magazines and is the author of “Park Güell Journey,” the interactive digital book “Suri y yo,” and “Organic Beauty,” translated into five languages.
She has done illustration commissions for CaixaForum, Racc, La Caixa, Diputación de Barcelona, Metropolitan Area of Barcelona, La Vanguardia, etc.
She was the director of the illustration festival “Compostela Ilustrada” (Spain) (2019–2022). Likewise, she has done international workshops in Chicago, Brighton, Palo Alto, Madrid, Porto, Lisbon, Tuscany, Bern, San Francisco, Málaga, New York, Santiago de Compostela, La Réunion Island, New Zealand, Tel Aviv, etc. Currently, she’s a member of the board of the ‘Centre Artistic de Sant Lluc,’ a century-old art institution in Barcelona.
Now, she manages a dynamic balance between professional illustration commissions, authorship projects for books, and teaching activities, which include urban sketching workshops and illustration classes around the world
Workshop: Gouache & Collage
In this workshop we will delve into urban sketching through a combination of gouache, collage and dry media techniques to create dynamic and expressive compositions.
We will start the workshop with a practical session dedicated to the use of gouache, focusing on the application of color and the creation of textures. Next, we’ll cover fundamental composition concepts to learn how to better structure our illustrations.
Finally, we will explore the combination of mixed media, using colored pencil, graphite, Neocolor and the cut-out shapes we have previously created, combining pictorial and graphic elements to obtain drawings full of movement and textures.
This multidisciplinary approach will encourage play with composition and allow synthesis to be worked on from direct observation of reality.
Materials to take:
- Papers and/or notebook as a basis for our compositions. Multi-technique hot pressed paper.
- Colored pencils, preferably with an oily base such as Luminance, Polychromos, etc.
- Graphites of a couple of hardnesses (2B and 6B).
- Black pencil type Black Pitt Oil or black pencil.
- Small scissors (blunt children’s scissors work well).
- A tube of white glue.
- A plastic envelope/separator to store leftover textures and scraps.
- Gouache tubes of basic colors (magenta, yellow, cyan) and titanium white.
- Gouache tubes in optional colors like turquoise, orange, opera rose, etc. (I will bring tubes of these colors to share).
- Other line materials you like: marker, pen, pen, Neocolor waxes, etc.
- Quality foil type papers (90 gr) to create textures.
- Brushes of different thicknesses.
- Plastic credit card that you don’t use.
- Chair, water, rags, tweezers, etc.
Saturday, March 15th, 10 to 10 - Morning workshop: W4 (M) - Maru Godàs Saturday, March 15th, 16 to 19 - Afternoon workshop: W4 (T) - Maru Godàs
Workshop's Languages: Catalan/Spanish (English) Location: Centre Cívic Barceloneta