Danny Gregory went out and made an amazing sketchbook film on his own. His son Jack Tea was operating the camera. It is quite fun and will make you smile if you have 4 minutes to spare.
As you see from the Melanies post below, last weekend was a fantastic meet-up of Urban Sketchers correspondents Melanie Reim of New York, Don Low and his wife Kat from Singapore, and Shiho Nakaza and...
By great coincidence, both New York correspondent Melanie Reim and Singapore correspondent Don Low were in Los Angeles during the same week, so my fellow Los Angeles correspondent Virginia Hein and I...
These are some more of the sketches I did during our SketchCrawl in Chesterfield. Though its only 15 minutes away on the train, Id never actually visited Chesterfield, and so really enjoyed...
I had just finished teaching a class with my MFA in Illustration students from FIT and could not believe that the stars and the sun of the West Coast aligned for an awesome day of drawing with Virgin...
Here are some train sketches I did earlier this week, on my way to and from Selby, visiting a school. Any regular readers will know that if you see me on a train anytime and dont want to be sketched,...
Yesterday I spent the afternoon painting with Shari in Place des Armes. The square is finally in use again after a massive re-construction project. At lunchtime, it was absolutely packed with d...
Last week we were in the Ottawa area, working on a side project that Ill talk about in a few days. Fortunately, there was time for a day drawing with John Wright, fellow Urban Sketcher, and all aroun...
My first sketch for the Ackland exhibition and I figured a view from the North Shore across the Auckland Harbour Bridge to the city would be suitably picturesque.Sketched on the last day of...
Imam Mosque, is a mosque in Isfahan, Iran standing in south side of Naghsh-i Jahan Square. Built during the Safavid period, it is an excellent example of Islamic architecture of Iran, and regarded as...
For Memorial Day weekend, Yuns brother came in from Seattle. His mom was cleaning out her house and came across some stuff of his from when he was a kid. One of the items was this great Darth Vadar H...
We took our students up to Sausenburg castle ruins yesterday for cooking hotdogs over an open fire and seeing the view. From the tower you can see where Germany meets France and Switzerland. This is ...
Over the Memorial Day weekend, Yun and I went to her moms condo in Connecticut. Her brother was in town with his wife and son from Seattle. So everyone else came to see them. My new thing is scouring...
Last Monday I went to Pinkpop, which is a three day open air festival in Landgraaf, the Netherlands. Just a few kilometres from my house. The festival attracts 65.000 spectators at its peak, a...
The home of Benjamin Locke is tucked into a busy suburban street in Arlington, Massachusetts. You’d have to look carefully to find the markers mentioning it is an historic landmark. But on the night ...
Restaraunt-confectioners in art-noveau stile on the first floor of the Hotel Oktyabrskaya. The waitress welcomes the guests in french. Onion soup and berry cheese-cakes. Traditional french chan...
I visited the Ryoan-ji Temple in Kyoto, especially to see the famous zen garden of raked gravel and rocks. Although there were throngs of tourists making it difficult to get into a contemplative fram...
Times Square, New York I had a week working in New York earlier this month, and then — luxury of luxuries — a day free to myself in the city before flying home the next morning. There was time to mee...
Yesterday a march was held in Rosebank to protest against the Goodman Gallery displaying an insulting painting of the president. You cant believe the furore this artwork has caused! My sketching frie...
Ive been having a lot of fun just lately: 2 SketchCrawls in 8 days! On Saturday we were in Chesterfield just outside Sheffield. It couldnt have been more different to last weeks in Buxton, ...
collecting random cut-outs of human fauna at busstop neue-kant-strasse | s station messe nord
I visited March Air Reserve Base in Riverside, California with other artists, thanks to special arrangements by United States Air Force Art Collection and Society of Illustrators of Los Angeles. Peop...
This lovely old gentlemen was a charmer. They told me his wife couldnt find him, when it was time to go to the Memorial Day ceremony...then she discovered he had dug out his old uniform and was...
Sometimes a holiday weekend is a great time to stay in the city and enjoy the peace and quiet. This Memorial Day weekend, I spent a few hours drawing in the park of my apartment complex. Even when yo...
The Sunday New York Times published a feature article about a special journalistic drawing project which I recommend for the Memorial Day holiday were celebrating here in the United States. Artists a...
Coudoulous is the name of a little river in the Cévennes, region of France that I like a lot.
Size: 56 x 19 cm, 3 fold Media: Chinese ink & watercolour on paper
We were in the Toronto area on a business trip the other week, had a half day free, and thus: The Soldiers Tower at the University of Toronto Queens Park campus. The watercolor continues to rev...
I had both the hard copy and Kindle version going for La autopista del sur (Southern Thruway). Mesmerizing story of endless, but stagnate highway. The experience seemed to require lots of espresso, a...
Pete Scully did an excellent job of organising Urban Sketchers Londons first ever Sketchcrawl around Fleet Street and Temple on a very hot and extremely sunny Saturday 26th May. He even produced a ha...
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