04/04/2025

"Urban sketching" workshop with Lapin

The "Festa di Scienza e di Filosofia - Virtute e Canoscenza" (10th - 13th of April, www.festascienzafilosofia.it) will be held in Fabriano at the historic Paper Mill Complex with the "Urban Sketching" workshop of Lapin, French artist and "mobile illustrator".

This event aims to stimulate deep discussions on current topics, inviting experts and citizens to reflect on the intersection of science, philosophy, and sustainability. It will take place in Umbria and Marche, in Foligno (April 10-13) and Fabriano (April 11-12), where it is promoted by the Laboratorio di Scienze Sperimentali O.D.V., in collaboration with the Rotary Club of Fabriano, the Municipality of Fabriano, and the Associazione per la promozione turistica e culturale dell’Appennino Umbro Marchigiano A.P.S.

Among the many events planned, on April 12, the Fedrigoni Fabriano Foundation will host INAF SKETCHTOUR: DRAWING ASTROPHYSICS. The workshop with French artist Lapin, held in the historic Paper Mill building in Fabriano, a symbol of industriousness, entrepreneurial ingenuity, and creativity of the area, is part of the project “Sketchtour: Atlante illustrato dell'Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica” promoted by INAF. This project arises from the meeting of art and science, two worlds that, despite their different languages, share the same goal: to explore and narrate the reality around us.

Participants in the "Urban Sketching" workshop will learn how to intuitively and accessibly draw the beauty of the historic site of the Fabriano Paper Mills. Through a few simple steps, Lapin will guide participants in creating a sketch based on direct observation, using fineliner and watercolor on FABRIANO paper.

Learning Goals:

to be confident, sketching directly with fineliner without any previous construction
mistakes are part of the process. If a line turns wrong, don’t try to save it, go for the next one. - creating some dynamic composition, layering the scene from the foreground to the background
exploring perspective
painting with a reduced watercolour palette
capture the essence of the place

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Lapin biography

Lapin (1981) is a French artist living in Barcelona. He defines hisself as a "mobile illustrator" and he registers his life in drawings: he filled more than 220 sketchbooks during the past 20 years. He participates to the Urban Sketchers community since its beginning and he was nominated official air and space painter for the French army in 2019. He uses to sketch on vintage accounting books that he finds in flea markets. This old paper with red and blue lines reminds him the first drawings and observations that brought back the scientist expedition of the XVIIIth century like Cook or Laperouse from unknown civilisations and lands. He wishes to become one of those explorers. The economy of medium is also what he appreciates. He's traveling light and don't need much more than a sketchbook, a fineliner, watercolor and his folding stool. The street is his studio. He already published 50 books about Barcelona, Paris, Japan, Cuba, and for museums around the world (Arts et Métiers, Le Bourget, Deutsches Museum, Qatar Museum) and recently for inaf in a sketchtour around Italy.

Visit Lapin website: www.lesillustrationsdelapin.com

Instagram profil: @lapinbarcelona