portland, day two…

Day Two of the Urban Sketching Symposium… the morning saw a great Urban Line session with Lapin down at the Steel Bridge. Portland is the city of bridges. I think we all signed something at the start saying we all had to draw this bridge at least once. It was very therapeutic, one of those drawings where I enjoyed every little stroke of the pen.

Above, on brown paper, a collection of Urban Sketchers: Simo Capecchi giving her inspiring lecture on a Naples sketchbook project; Liz Steel (from Sydney) and Gerard Michel (from Liege) watching and sketching the same lecture; and Gabi Campanario, after his lecture on the artist as reporter, taking the light rail downtown to sketch some more. Gabi has the same sketching stool as I do, though his one is blue.

As for these odd guys… I sketched them on Gabi’s Urban Composition session in Pioneer Square. Less said about them the better, I think. Nice green boiler-suit, Zeke, now hand out of your pocket.

And finally, I sketched one of the members of the Portland urban sketchers, Kalina Wilson (aka Geminica), in her red hat. Another Portland sketcher, Alanna Randall, photographed me doing so.

And then the Urban Sketchers of the world stopped for a beer. And some more sketching.

by Pete Scully