Why I'm so obsessed with these Spanish urban sketchers 🇪🇸 

when you said "looking at his work makes me feel like i can breathe" i really felt that. it's such a nice feeling to stop squinting to capture every detail and shadow perfectly and instead just follow your intuition.

I'm obsessed with Maru Godas and I've got both of her classes. For me it's their use of color, it says FEARLESS!

My wife and I are 3 months away from a 60-day trip to Spain. We are going to walk the Camino Frances from SJPDP to Santiago de Compostela. This has been 2 years in the planning and a result of adopting a mindset to not let COVID keep us from living our best life. A week in Madrid, a train-ride to Saint Jean and 30-40 walking days to Santiago. We will follow on with a week's walk to Finisterre and Muxia. A little over six months ago I decided to learn how to sketch for our Camino. I've called it my "fresh eyes project" to see the world with fresher eyes. I said to myself, if you are going to do a Transformational Pilgrimage you need to really slow down and get into it, and I have always wanted to learn to draw. Once the seed was planted, of course, I stumbled upon Urban Sketching and YOU became one of my favorite influencers. I love this video. I can't tell you how much your words over these images took my breath away and then filled up my lungs again. That is a long way of getting to the point of my comment. I have spent 2 years preparing for Spain. Wondrium courses on Cathedrals and Spanish History. James Richards and Liz Steel courses. BUT my Instagram feed is filled with Spanish sketchers, absolutamente lleno! Your video put words to feelings I have had for months about sketching but did not understand and absolutely could not express. Having taken a deep dive into Spanish history and culture... I totally get it now. I love what this exercise has done to your sketches. In the past week 2 things have blown me away. This interview with James Richards overcast.fm/+l_MW7nOdk and your video. Thank you!

Ok, I loved the Nathala piece of the river with the transparent person in the foreground. I'm hooked.

My Art Child within just danced a happy jig! Thank you for sharing this with us. I'm inspired ... 💕

Maru Godas is the GOAT. I've got all her domestika courses. One of them is for book binding and it has inspired my current small business

Thanks, Taria! Two completely opposing phrases: Childish: to behave like a terrible 2 /3 year old toddler in a tantrum. Childlike: To appreciate life as a child does, with fresh, wondering eyes, to express this with the colour, simplicity, freedom and joy of that inner child. You are right that these artists have this childlike quality about their work. What I see is the work of people who have learned their art, and then allowed themselves to express what they see and feel, as opposed to what other people think they should see and feel. Explaining that process is almost impossible to describe, because it's about 'just being' and expressing that through colour and line, not rules and words... I can see you struggling to get past expectation to the real you in so much of what you do. We're taught that it should be like 'this' or 'like that' since going to school, and that is sooo hard to break through. The breakthrough will come, if we let it. Your style may not be quite like theirs, because you are you (and also the product of a Northern Europe climate and attitude!), but whatever it is, when it finally breaks through (because it will, even with that British upbringing), you'll sit back and look at what you've done with tears of joy and amazement. On your own doorstep in Jo'burg, look at the vibrancy of African women's traditional robes. Absorb that swirl of colour, and splosh your paint to create the same. Look at the riot of flowers and trees in their setting, and splosh your paint to capture not the shape and form, but the glorious chaos of colour. Wet a large sheet of paper and drop in vibrant colour and let it swirl and do its own thing. Only *after* this, pick up your fineliner / pen (*not* pencil!) and draw the random shapes that you will begin to see in that mass of glorious colour. Take the scraps of paper you've used for the test blobs of colour for a painting, and use your pen to draw into it the shapes that you see. Your shapes may overlap the different colours. Don't worry - so do those of the artists you've shown us. Relax and enjoy it, and be surprised. This is playtime, and it's one of the keys to the spontaneity and joy you see in those paintings you've shown us today. Oh, crumbs! I didn't set out to write all this! It just wrote itself!!! But it's worked for me, and it's worked for some of the most uptight students I've taught, so maybe it will be one of your helps, too?

Yep. I like this reminder! Thanks from Kindle in 🇨🇦

Thank you so much. I love that style of sketching!

I love this video of yours Taria. You come alive when you’re talking about other artists and I can hear the genuine passion and interest in your voice. It’s wonderful to listen to :)

Your videos are so amazing and beautiful as always. Good job dear friend as always ❤🤗❤

Yes! This is what I want to be doing - capturing the energy of where I am. Absolute beginner here, only just discovered Urban Sketching.

eye opening video, thank you for showing these artists who are using colour in such a graphic and fun way. I will definitely look them up. Have a good week.

thanks for introducing me to these awesome artists!!

i love this video! i was in a sketching funk for weeeeeeks and this video brought me out of it almost immediately. im obsessed with this draw-like-a-child style of art & gave all these artists a follow + bought inma's domestika course too! thanks so much, taria.

What an inspiring video - thank you!

A great look into urban sketchers that I wasn't too aware of. Thank you. Right, I need to sketch!

This was a great topic. What inspiring sketchers.

Thank you for this!!! I've been a fan of Maru Godas since discovering her last year, and am really psyched to know about these others. Thanks to you, I've been binging on Santi Salle videos--so fun and inspiring!

Great video! Thank you!

I am so glad to have found your channel. I'm definitely a fan. I very much enjoy what you are speaking about and all of the schools of drawing you attend. I do as well. Your commentary is excellent. Thank you! There were many quotable moments. The way you walk through and unpack the learning of these artists is similar to how I have thought of things. I may not have done the rock or horror route. However, I agree, 100% that these artists you have mentioned are brilliant!

Hey Taria, I always considered myself a painter and not a sketcher but your channel has really opened my eyes how artists can capture a scene with different views on perspective and color. Now I am actually going to start using all those sketch books that people have gifted me over the years! I have been in a bit of a rut lately with my watercolor so maybe some loose sketching will get me out of my funk! Keep up the really informative videos like these ones please!

Taria thank you for this series of videos on different urban sketchers, I really enjoy them! This one in particular is excellent as you highlight this incredible style…I hadn’t put together that these are all Spanish artists, but seeing them all here as a group is illuminating. I love all these artists too and am now excited for this Inma Domestika course, I really like your sketches coming out of that course. Ps I have the Santi Salles nature ebook and even though it’s in Spanish (not my primary language) you can still learn so much from it.

Great video. Thanks.

I love this urban style

Thankyou...feel inspired.

l love your videos that showcase different urban sketchers! More artists for me to follow! I think drawing loosely is a big challenging for me...I hope I can draw more loosely someday.

Thank you Taria. Just what I needed to get me going..... I have just downloaded Inma Serano's course and hope it will help me to rid myself of my self conciousness.

great video! thanks

Ok… I’m inspired! 🤗

You should do this from time to mime. A round of the nice classes.

Omg. Imma Serrano! So amazing. Thank you. Mind blowing and inspiring. Much better than Cradle Of Filth... but not quite Meshuggah.

Cool video, there are a few here that are new to me, and I live here in Madrid! I am a fan of Alicia Aradilla, currently working through her Doměstika course about Travel Sketchbooks (Cuadernos de Viaje). I also follow Joaquín González Dorao - his Christmas trip to Ethiopia was amazing. If anyone would like to find more inspiration from this loose style approach, I can recommend watching some of the videos by Koosje Koene.

I've just found Joaquin gonzalez Doraro. Love his style but maybe cos my daughter lives in Madrid and want to update my sketches. Still trying to find a nice white hot press paper. Bx

I think this is a case of Learn the rules to break the rules

11:52 Maru Godas! Glad to see a lot of portuguese places! 😊

Fantastic and inspiring video! Thank you! I just started the SketchBook Skool Watercolor Rules course and am super excited to get to Week 4 with Inman Serrano! Have you taken any of the SkillShare courses? If so, do you have any recommendations?

There is another artist I believe you will love as well. Victoria_Semykina. Not of Spanish decent. I believe she may be European. She has the gift. A true gem.