Toulouse. Patricia sketches urban landscapes
In Blagnac we know the traveling cyclist Patricia Bourgeais who, with her husband Jean-François, made several journeys from Rennes to Lannion, then from Nantes to Hendaye and, most recently, from Nantes to Strasbourg. (La Dépêche of October 23, 2022). But it is for drawing, another of her passions, that this Blagnacoise occasionally becomes Toulouse by joining the Urban Sketchers of Toulouse. These neophyte or experienced street designers meet once a month on Sundays to sketch urban life from life. “You have to dare to draw in public first, but after that it’s great, you learn a lot by observing others. Sometimes passers-by and even children join us,” she laughs. It is in the professional context that this Air France engineer, currently at the disposal of the rectorate of the Toulouse academy for her IPE (Engineer for the School) project, discovered the power of drawing as a teaching tool. About ten years ago, when she was a team coach, she took a course in “graphic facilitation” to learn how to communicate better through visuals. It is for her a revelation and a trigger. From then on, in all the meetings she leads, she uses sketches and other graphic signs to better convey the messages. But Patricia wants her drawings to be beautiful, and to perfect her skills she enrolls at the Beaux-Arts de Toulouse (IsdaT) in Raphaël Larre’s evening classes for adults, where she meets Urban Sketchers. The need and the pleasure of drawing never left her and even accompanied her on her travels, which she now takes on a bicycle, after having traveled the world by plane with her family. And it is in travel diaries, resembling graphic novels, that Patricia gives free rein to her creativity.
In Blagnac we know the traveling cyclist Patricia Bourgeais who, with her husband Jean-François, made several journeys from Rennes to Lannion, then from Nantes to Hendaye and, most recently, from Nantes to Strasbourg. (La Dépêche of October 23, 2022). But it is for drawing, another of her passions, that this Blagnacoise occasionally becomes Toulouse by joining the Urban Sketchers of Toulouse. These neophyte or experienced street designers meet once a month on Sundays to sketch urban life from life. “You have to dare to draw in public first, but after that it’s great, you learn a lot by observing others. Sometimes passers-by and even children join us,” she laughs. It is in the professional context that this Air France engineer, currently at the disposal of the rectorate of the Toulouse academy for her IPE (Engineer for the School) project, discovered the power of drawing as a teaching tool. About ten years ago, when she was a team coach, she took a course in “graphic facilitation” to learn how to communicate better through visuals. It is for her a revelation and a trigger. From then on, in all the meetings she leads, she uses sketches and other graphic signs to better convey the messages. But Patricia wants her drawings to be beautiful, and to perfect her skills she enrolls at the Beaux-Arts de Toulouse (IsdaT) in Raphaël Larre’s evening classes for adults, where she meets Urban Sketchers. The need and the pleasure of drawing never left her and even accompanied her on her travels, which she now takes on a bicycle, after having traveled the world by plane with her family. And it is in travel diaries, resembling graphic novels, that Patricia gives free rein to her creativity.