Meet Paul Heaston! Workshop 15: Umbrella Perspective, Chicago Style!

Paul Heaston received a BFA in painting from the University of Texas at San Antonio in 2002 and an MFA in painting from Montana State University in 2008. He first started sketching in 2007 during a semester abroad in Perugia, Italy. Rather than continue making oil paintings, he opted to bring along a Moleskine sketchbook and document his travels around Italy. Since then he has filled over 100 sketchbooks and completed multiple long term sketching projects. He has been a part of the Urban Sketchers community since the very beginning.

Paul has taught sketching workshops and demos at the USk Symposiums in Paraty, Manchester, Chicago and Porto. Additionally, he has taught painting and drawing in Montana, Texas and Colorado, and has been a visiting artist and lecturer at East Central University in Ada, Oklahoma, Mesa State University in Grand Junction, Colorado and the University of Wyoming in Laramie. His work has been featured in several books about urban sketching and drawing and his sketches have been shown in exhibitions in Colorado, Texas, Montana, Oklahoma and New York City. Paul’s sketches can be viewed online on Flickr, Facebook, Tumblr and Instagram where he has over 200 thousand followers. Paul lives in Denver, Colorado with his wife Linda and two daughters.