Virginia Hein

Virginia Hein was born in Los Angeles, California, and the landscape of the city is her favorite subject. She received her MFA in Drawing and Painting from California State University, Long Beach and has worked as a concept and character designer illustrator and fine artist. She now teaches drawing at Otis College of Art and Design in Los Angeles, and also teaches location sketching workshops. She has been a member of Urban Sketchers since 2009, and is a correspondent for the highly popular Urban Sketchers blog. She has taught workshops at three international Urban Sketchers Symposiums, in Barcelona, Singapore and Chicago. She has contributed her work to a number of books about location sketching. Blog: worksinprogress-location.blogspot.com