Stephanie Bower worked as a licensed Architect in New York City before gravitating to professional architectural illustration and concept design. She taught the how-to's of architectural location sketching for over twenty-five years in New York City at Parsons and in Seattle at the University of Washington and Cornish College of the Arts. She has two online sketching classes at Bluprint.com, and she travels and teaches perspective and watercolor workshops internationally, including at six Urban Sketchers symposiums. People around the world follow her sketches online via Instagram @stephanieabower and Facebook, and she is an international blog correspondent for Urban Sketchers. Stephanie is a signature member of the Northwest Watercolor Society. She is the author of The Urban Sketching Handbook: Understanding Perspective (Quarry Books, 2016) and co-author of The Urban Sketching Art Pack (Quarry Books, 2017).

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• CONTENTSAbout This Series 4Introduction 7  KEYSOn Your Mark, Get Set. 9It All Starts with a Good Line 7The Values of Tone 31Compelling Compositions 41Good Bones. 55It’s All About Your Eye Level 65Towers Are Like Wedding Cakes (& Other Ah-Ha Moments)  77C’mon in, the Water Is Fine 91  Challenges 110Contributors 111Acknowledgments 112About the Author 112

Stephanie Bower worked as a licensed Architect in New York City before gravitating to professional architectural illustration and concept design. She taught the how-to's of architectural location sketching for over twenty-five years in New York City at Parsons and in Seattle at the University of Washington and Cornish College of the Arts. She has two online sketching classes at Bluprint.com, and she travels and teaches perspective and watercolor workshops internationally, including at six Urban Sketchers symposiums. People around the world follow her sketches online via Instagram @stephanieabower and Facebook, and she is an international blog correspondent for Urban Sketchers. Stephanie is a signature member of the Northwest Watercolor Society. She is the author of The Urban Sketching Handbook: Understanding Perspective (Quarry Books, 2016) and co-author of The Urban Sketching Art Pack (Quarry Books, 2017).

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• CONTENTSAbout This Series 4Introduction 7  KEYSOn Your Mark, Get Set. 9It All Starts with a Good Line 7The Values of Tone 31Compelling Compositions 41Good Bones. 55It’s All About Your Eye Level 65Towers Are Like Wedding Cakes (& Other Ah-Ha Moments)  77C’mon in, the Water Is Fine 91  Challenges 110Contributors 111Acknowledgments 112About the Author 112