Understanding Light

The Urban Sketching Handbook: Understanding Light is an informative guide to heightening the impact of your artwork by capturing the look and subtleties of light in any scene.

In settings ranging from fields and mountains at daybreak to neon cityscapes at midnight, learn how to express light effects through color and value to improve and refine your drawings and paintings.

Artist and urban sketcher Katie Woodward offers strategies for:

• Selectively translating values for maximum effect
• Using your sketchbook to experiment with the effects of natural as well as artificial light
• Considering many options for visual solutions through work contributed by experienced urban sketchers