I arrived in portland the day before the symposium, and once out of the train, we went to china town with tia, her husband albert, liz and borromini. I wanted to warm up with an american classic car, and founded this cool cadillac. after a while sketching on the floor front of it, an old […]
I posted many more sketches and a decent amount of explanatory text over on the Portland Symposium blog in these three posts: Jason Das Finally Gets Around to Scanning Some of His Symposium Sketches, Struggling with Tanner Springs and The Fields, and Urban Color Games. But if you’d just like to see my favorite sketches […]
The third and final day of the Urban Sketching Symposium came, and everyone was excited and exhausted in equal measure. This day was also the day of the 28th Worldwide Sketchcrawl, so Portland was becoming a cauldron of sketchers. Which is how the world should be. The morning session for me was Urban Architecture, with […]
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 […]
You may have heard about the 1st Urban Sketching Symposium that was held a couple of weeks ago in Portland, Oregon. I’m not sure where to start! For me, and for the others that attended, it was a hugely inspiring creative event, and the opportunity to sketch alongside urban sketchers from across the planet – […]
I’m at home, after 3 weeks in Seattle, San Francisco and Portland… where I met a lot of sketchers at the symposium. It’ very exciting to live and to draw with so much enthusiasts of the sketch… I’ll never enough thank Gabi for organizing the group of urban sketchers. Like Lapin, I sketched some sketchers…
I am back from the most amazing 3-day Urban Sketching Symposium in Portland. This is my first sketch in Portland on the day we arrived before the Symposium. We heard so much about the story of food carts in Portland, so when Liz and I saw one after depositing our lugguages at the Mark Spencer […]
Just want to put a quick post up on here to thank everyone who participated in the Urban Sketchers Symposium in Portland, especially Gabi Campanario for making it all happen! It was a fabulous event, truly, as Matt Brehm called it, a ‘Woodstock’ of sketching! The drawing above is a quick one I made of […]
We are really excited to announce our first event as a nonprofit! The 1st International Urban Sketching Symposium will take place in Portland, Oregon, this summer, thanks to a partnership with Pacific Northwest College of Art, a leading art school on the scenic West Coast of the United States. Since we established nonprofit status last […]