Three months have past

The crisp autumn air these days reminds me of the fresh chilly morning in Portland, USA.
It was late July when I was there to attend the first Urban Sketching Symposium. Although it was so short period of time, it’s so memorable.

These are some sketches from symposium that I haven’t posted on the symposium blog.( maybe I should post there too)

Urban Nature

In the session by Jason, we went to the union station and sketched some nature thing in the urban environment.
This is a construction site viewed from the footbridge. In the morning, the sky was covered with thick clouds but all were cleared in an hour from mountain side.

These are garden trees near the station.

Urban Composition

In the session by Gabi, we went to Pioneer Square and we sketched about what was going on at the site. This is a reportage: Urban Sketchers were everywhere in the square. In the foreground, middle ground and background there they were!

Urban People

In the session by Isabel, we went to Farmers Market and kept drawing people there. We even drew people in the streetcar on our way to get there.
People come and go, stay and move. What ever the situation was, I just focused on capturing their posture as much as I could. As to some figure, I just managed to draw head and some are upper half of their bodies. I didn’t intend to finish or complete the figure. These are done on the large-size Japanese notebook includes an Urban Sketchers logo embossed on the cover: one of the generous souvenir from the symposium.

Urban Architecture

In the session by TIA, many of us drew the building of PNCA. TIA’s instruction was concise. These lines go like this and the other side of lines go like this. ( She said something like that with gesture. Sorry, I don’t remember exact phrase)
And here is the result.

Here again I would love to thank to all the people who made this happened. To your effort, friendship and blog on USK.