41 - Telling Stories with Gabi Campanario
Hello and welcome to the SneakyArt Post. This is a weekly newsletter about my art, and my journey of self-education to be an artist. Part of this journey happens with the wonderful conversations I have on my podcast. Find below an introduction to the latest episode.
Workshop
In last week’s episode, I shared a link of my new people-drawing workshop (May 9). Some seats are still available!
This is a workshop about incorporating people in your sketches, whether they are the main subject or simply a part of the scene. I like to tell workshop participants that an urban landscape without people is a dystopia. But I even know a lot of experienced sketchers who hesitate to draw people in their work!
The key word is ‘hesitate’, because it is often not a matter of ability. This workshop will help you overcome that hesitation.
Ep 16 - Telling Stories with Gabi Campanario
In this episode, I speak with Gabi Campanario, sketch-journalist at the Seattle Times and founder of the Urban Sketchers organization. Everyone in the urban-sketchers community knows Gabi or knows about him, but often only in his role as founder. As I researched this episode, I realized it would be a disservice to speak to him only about this single facet. Instead, we talk about the many intersections of art and journalism in his life.
Gabi tells me about his early interest in observational drawing, and the circumstances under which he came to become a journalist at a time of great change within the industry.
The first Gulf War started right as Gabi joined La Vanguardia in Barcelona. The revolution of 24/7 news affected print journalism as well. The emerging field of information graphics came into sharp focus as a way to share complex information about the war with mass audiences. Over the years, online and offline, Gabi navigated a rapidly changing work and social environment. We talk about the era of blogs, and what it was like to connect with writers, photographers and artists on the early internet. We discuss the first USk blog, that brought together correspondents from different parts of the world. We talk about how we see the horizon today, and the vanishing point where art and storytelling meet.
The overarching theme of this conversation is the importance of chasing one’s interests to simply do things, and about the unexpected virtue of ignorance, i.e. not knowing enough to not try something new.
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This week in SneakyArt…
… an insidious truth about adulthood
No one warns you that you will have to think about what you want to eat everyday. Every morning, every afternoon and every evening, for the rest of your life. Only death can bring you sweet release from this Sisyphean ordeal.
… lines about a line
Outside a walk-in clinic in downtown Vancouver. The wife sprained her neck (occupational hazard of dentistry) and decided to have it checked out. I had to wait outside because, you know, pandemic.
… a big boat ride
I boarded a Sea-Bus for the first time, making the 15 minute journey to North Vancouver. I drew this on the return voyage.
That’s all from me this week. Thank you for your time and attention.
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