💎 Part of the Flow room project: Amethyst tier 

🏛 Architecture Sketching: Textures Watercolor & Mixed Media

Live Online Class with Sophia Rodionov

🗓 June 20, 2026 (Saturday)
🕖 19:00 Jerusalem Time
⏳ Duration: ~4.5 hours (includes a 20-minute break)
💻 Live on Zoom
📹 Recording available — lifetime access for everyone who enrolls

🧱 Paint Architecture That Breathes — Where Texture Becomes a Decision, Not an Accident ✨

A textured architecture sketch can look loose, energetic, "just happened"… But the truth is: every
mark, every rough edge, every quiet space is a choice.

In this class, I'll teach you the concept I build all my textured sketches on — contrast — and how
textures become one of the most powerful tools you have to create it. Not texture for the sake of
texture (that's how a sketch turns into a mess), but texture used with intention, to lead the eye, build
mood, and make a scene feel alive.
This is not only "paint with me." This is think with me 🤎 🖋
We'll go behind the scenes of the decision-making — so you can later look at any building, street, or
rooftop and know exactly how to turn it into a strong, dynamic sketch of your own. 💡

 ENROLLMENT PERIOD 

💡What makes this class special

Most architecture lessons hand you a reference and walk you through copying it.
Here we go deeper:

• the concept of contrast — and why it's the real engine behind a sketch that works
• how textures create different kinds of contrast on the very same subject
• how to decide what to show the viewer and what to ignore
• how to change reality — distort, simplify, exaggerate — and still feel true
• how to connect different parts of a sketch with rhythm
• how to use the materials you already own to make texture — without buying anything new

✨ You'll leave with a clear, repeatable system for textured architecture — one you can reuse on
every building you fall in love with.

🎨 What We Will Do — The Program

1⃣ Theory: The Contrast Concept (~30–40 min) We start with the idea everything else is built
on. I'll show you different types of contrast applied to the same subject, how textures can create
each of them, what options you actually have — and how to use texture wisely so it strengthens the
sketch instead of crowding it.

2⃣ Sketch 1 — Architecture Details, One Focal Point (~30 min) A focused detail scene built on
the contrast of texture vs. clear space, combined with ink drawing. Our first taste of letting texture
and emptiness work together.

3⃣ Sketch 2 — A Busier Scene, Still One Focal Point (~40–50 min) A more complicated
reference with much more visual information. More texture-making techniques — and our main
focus here: how to decide what to keep and what to let go, so the composition stays dynamic and
powerful instead of overloaded.

☕ Break — 20 min

4⃣ Sketch 3 — Changing Reality (~60 min) This is where we break the rules. Texture contrast
plus perspective distortion — bending what's in front of us to serve the sketch. More practice
creating texture, and using rhythm to connect different parts of the artwork into one whole.

5⃣ Sketch 4 — Final Larger Sketch, Two Focal Points (~60 min) One main focal point and one
secondary. We bring everything together: managing the space, balancing texture contrasts, rhythm,
composition — and most of all, decision-making. This is the piece where it all clicks.

❓ Questions time

⏳ About 4.5 hours total.

🤎 A Note for Architecture Sketching Students

This class is a wonderful next step for everyone who took the Architecture Sketching course —
we go deeper into texture contrast, learning to use it with real intention and getting the hands-on
practice you need, with my guidance beside you.

It's completely new material with new paintings. In fact, this is essentially the second part of the
Architecture course I had planned — but I decided to teach it as a live class instead, because I love
the energy we share when we paint together in real time.

(And if you're new to my architecture work, you're just as welcome — everything you need is in the class itself.)

🏙 Who This Class Is For

This class is perfect if you:

🧱 love sketching buildings, streets, and rooftops but feel your work gets stiff or overworked

🧱 want more freedom and energy — without losing structure

🧱 add texture but aren't sure how to keep it from turning into a mess

🧱 want to learn to change a reference, not just copy it

🧱 took the Architecture Sketching course and want to go deeper with practice

🧱 are a beginner who wants a clear system, or an intermediate painter who wants more confidence

🧡 Live Class Experience (and Why It Matters)

✨ Live on Zoom means you can:

• ask questions in real time
• see the full decision process as it happens
• feel the energy of painting together in a studio atmosphere

💬 There will be Q&A time, and you're welcome to share progress and ask for feedback if you'd
like.

📹 Can't be online? No problem:

• The Zoom recording will be available within 24 hours after the class ends.
• A better-quality video will be added to your class materials within a week.
• If you enroll, you keep lifetime access to the recording — watch and paint at your own pace, anytime.
• If you're a Flow Room subscriber, you'll have access to the recording for as long as your
  subscription is active.

🎨 Materials List

You can use the same materials concept as my other classes — just add a little more paper, since
we're making several sketches.

📜 Paper

• 100% cotton, cold press, 300 gsm
• For the 3 first sketches: 9×12" or A4
• For the final sketch: one sheet of A3 or 12×16"

🖌 Brushes
Use the brushes you already work with and love — whatever sizes you reach for naturally for
washes and details.

🖋 Ink & Drawing Tools (in addition to watercolor)

• Fountain pen or drawing pen in two thicknesses — for example 0.5 and 0.8, or 0.3 and 0.6
• Pencil + eraser
• Paper for sketching thumbnails and composition

✨ Optional Texture Tools — Use What You Already Have

This part is the heart of the class, so read this carefully: there is no need to buy anything special.
The whole idea is to learn how to use the materials you already love and already have in your studio
to create texture for watercolor and ink architecture sketching.

Anything you enjoy putting on paper can become a texture tool. Some possibilities:

• Watercolor pencils or regular coloring pencils
• Gouache or acrylic paint
• Acrylic markers or any markers you have
• Watercolor crayons / wax crayons / soft pastel — anything you like for thick marks or lines
• Stencils — if you have them
• Stamps — if you have them
• Fabric or napkins — for creating texture
• A paint roller and cardboard
• Palette knife and masking tape

💡 I'll also share my approach for choosing a limited palette of these extra tools — the same
concept I use to decide what to bring to a sketch, so you're not overwhelmed by options. The goal
isn't to own everything; it's to learn how to make the most of what you already have.

✨ The promise

After this class, you won't just have a few finished architecture sketches.
You'll have a repeatable system for textured architecture:

   🧱 the contrast concept
   🖋 texture as a deliberate tool
   👁 deciding what to show and what to ignore
   🌀 rhythm to connect the parts
   🎨 changing reality with confidence
   ✨ managing space, focal points, and composition

So the next time a building, a rooftop, or a crooked old street catches your eye — you'll know exactly what to do with it.

💎 THE FLOW ROOM INFORMATION

Before you decide — there are two paths here.

If this class speaks to you and you'd like to have it as your own — you can purchase it directly below, with lifetime access.

But if you find yourself returning to learn again and again, The Flow Room might be a more natural home for you. It's a subscription studio where this class is already included — alongside streams, workshops, and immersive learning — across three tiers: Emerald, Lapis Lazuli, and Amethyst.

Both paths lead to the same painting table. The question is how you like to travel.