Falafel Walk & Draw @ Giselastraße | Thu. 17:30

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Let’s meet at/outside the Libanon Restaurant (Giselastraße 8, 80802 München), grab a falafel wrap (optional) and walk around drawing buildings, trees, birds, cars, each other, or anything else.
Please bring: any kind of paper with a blank surface (even office paper printed on one side), and anything to draw or paint with (pencils, pens, markers, anything with color). We’ll probably be standing and walking around, so please plan for that (there are also places to sit).
17:30 – Feel free to come late, but bring your phone so we can catch up.
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Let's meet for a walk in the Giselastraße neighbourhood, between the LMU main campus and the Englischer Garten. There are some truly stunning buildings there for some free architectural drawing, or you could just draw birds or trees or cars or whatever you want. Subjects abound in that part of town, including the rest of us as we draw :-)

But there is also a great and cheap Lebanese place there—our meeting point—where we can grab a falafel wrap and keep going. This is very much optional, but very much recommended—the falafel here is delicious! Also, maybe accidentally dropping some hummus on your drawing may finally give it that extra depth and atmosphere that you were looking for and simply couldn’t achieve with mere graphite ;-)

Where/When
Thursday @ 17:30. Libanon Restaurant: Giselastraße 8, 80802 München.
U3/U6 to Giselastraße, southeast exit (travelling north, exit towards the tail of the train and to the right).
Also, buses 54/58/68/154 would leave you nearby.

Who
Beginners, people who are terrible at drawing but want to improve, people who are good at drawing and want to share their wisdom or just be in a friendly environment to draw, people who want to walk around and explore Munich's architecture or Munich itself while engaging with it by drawing it, anyone keen on beauty for beauty’s sake, anyone curious to try drawing while meeting (hopefully) nice people in the city.

Please bring
We can talk about materials on the day, but most obviously you need something to draw *with* and something to draw *on*. No rules here—you’ll be fine with a post-it block and a ballpen that you took from a hotel—but here are a few ideas:

1. Blank paper. Anything will do; best if you have a drawing block and/or sketchbook, but leftover office paper printed on only one side will do just fine for quick sketching—as long as you also bring some hard-ish surface to support the paper as you draw. Feel free to bring different types of paper of varying sizes (including watercolour paper if you want to paint over your drawings later).
2. A mechanical pencil would probably be best, since you don't need to sharpen it, but anything with graphite will do. Just bring a pen or marker if you don’t have any pencils, or borrow something from us.
   ENTIRELY OPTIONAL:
3. Some straight and light object (e.g., a ruler if you have one, otherwise a piece of cardboard/plastic), if you want help drawing your perspective lines.
4. Comfy shoes, enough clothing layers to put on (it may get cold), water, and about €8 for a falafel wrap if you wish.
5. To finalize your lines: an ultrafine marker or fountain pen.
6. To shade: B pencils (2B and higher), a graphite bar, and/or diluted ink (we can talk about it on the day).
7. To color: Watercolors + brushes + water containers; wax crayons; colored pencils; markers… whatever you like.
8. Your charged phone, so that you can take reference pictures to finish/redo your drawings/paintings later, and to find each other in case anybody’s late or if we split up.

Cost?
None! But be warned that there won't be any formal training, just people who are most likely worse at drawing than you are, or just trying to make sense of drawing with you ;-)

What we will do
Everyone will be free to do whatever they wish, but here’s an option for those who want to follow along:
We'll progressively try three techniques of linear perspective with basic architecture: one-point, two-point, and three-point. There are many buildings and streets in the area to play with these techniques.
Alternatively, we could just pick one or two buildings and stick with them to work details.
Feel free to *not* bring a ruler at all if you wish to jump straight into free architectural/perspective drawing.
We will also discuss materials and where to buy them (there are some great art shops in Munich. Let’s try to keep them open by not buying everything online!).
At the end, and as we go along, whoever wants to show what they’ve done can do so. We all promise to be kind and freely offer generous (and potentially wrong) advice.