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In today’s podcast interview, we are talking to Artist Ian Fennelly. Ian is an urban sketcher who creates and sells his amazing sketches. His work mainly features buildings which are painted with splashes of beautiful vibrant colours and use lively linework. Not only is Ian a fantastic painter he is also very entertaining and tells some interesting stories in this podcast.
Se do Porto – Ian Fennelly Urban Sketch
Ian talks about
- How he got started with his art.
- How he was undecided between abstract and more realistic art until an artist who visited the college helped make up his mind (but not in the way you would expect)
- How his Art career developed
- Why he loves urban sketching and what got him started with painting on location
- His urban sketching process (we loved hearing about this)
- Tips for a beginner artist who is starting urban sketching
- Composition tips for urban sketching when you are out on location.
- How he decides what colours to use beyond what he sees in front of him
- His favourite urban sketching materials and tools
Ian also tells us about his plans for a future trip and project to paint along Route 66 in the USA
Quarante – Ian Fennelly Urban Sketch
Ian Fennelly Urban Sketch
Find out more about Ian Fennelly
You can find out more about Ian and see more of his work on his website www.ianfennelly.co.uk
Instagram – @ianfennelly
The Sketchbook Skool Course where Ian Fennelly is one of the teachers is Watercolor Rules!—and how to break them
The video of Ian that was shot by a student on his workshop https://youtu.be/uYbIC5dCwiQ
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I’ve just discovered this podcast series via Sketchbook Skool. There are so many episodes that are interesting. I started here, with one of my favorite Urban Sketchers! I also took Watercolor Rules and the more recent “Layers of Looking” from Studio 56.
Excellent interview. Thanks very much.
Thanks for listening Kate, so glad you enjoyed it.
Hello Ian my name is Yvon I’m Canadian from Ottawa Ont.Ive just started doing watercolor paintings and I love all your urban paintings.So I started doing some of your paintings for my own collection.I find them so original the way you capture how you see them it’s just amazing.Ive done 18 of them so far,I would like you to see some of them.Doing these paintings just gives me so much pleasure thank you so much.