Urban Sketching Symposium Paraty 2014 – Preparation and Arrival

Sketchers attending the Symposium in Paraty have been making their plans for months – selecting workshops and activities, making travel plans, anticipating meeting old and new friends – but the shareable images really start with the packing…

Simone Ridyard

Suhita Shirodkar

Thiago Bueno Salcedo

Our local organizers had a lot of packing to do…

Cretacolor giveaways with USk Paraty 2014 logo

As early as last week sketchers began to arrive in São Paulo and in Rio…

Liz Steel and Marc Holmes – São Paulo

Paul Heaston – Rio

Some were even on the same plane!

Everyone immediately began meeting up to sketch…

Lynne Chapman sketching Richard Alomar

Ch’ng Kiah Kiean and Tia Boon Sim 

Making their way to Paraty was the next step, and got them that much closer to the Symposium, which starts Wednesday afternoon.

Fernanda Vaz de Campos and Eduardo Bajzek, our intrepid local Symposium leaders, roadtripping it to Paraty from São Paulo

Liz Steel, Suhita Shirodkar and Esther Semmens enjoying the cool winter night

Lynne Chapman sketching from the bus to Paraty

Martine Kervagoret sketching Paraty’s beautiful light

We’ll be bringing you more updates throughout the event here and on the USk Paraty 2014 site. You can also follow along on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram – look for #uskparaty2014 – and share your own pictures if you’re there!