Evento USK Ed: Seminario de Dibujo USKChicago 2020
Chicago Sketch Seminar 2020 will be held in Chicago on July 17 – 19, 2019. The seminar is an annual educational event organized by Urban Sketchers Chicago. The goal of Seminar is to celebrate and practice the art of on-location sketching in our beautiful and artful city – Chicago. We hope to bring a Symposium-like […]
USk Chicago Sketch Seminar 2019
Chicago Sketch Seminar 2019 will be held in Chicago on May 31 – June 2, 2019. Seminar is an annual educational event organized by Urban Sketchers Chicago. The goal of Seminar to celebrate and practice the art of on-location sketching in our beautiful and artful city – Chicago. We hope to bring a Symposium-like experience, […]
Hotel room views
[By Marcia Milner-Brage in cities in the United States and Portugal] When traveling, I more often stay in houses that are vacation rentals. But when I do book a hotel room, I ask for a high up room with a view. When checking in, I repeat the request. My explanation that I plan to sketch […]
Seminario de bocetos de USk Chicago 2018
Urban Sketchers Chicago is pleased to announce our USk Chicago Sketch Seminar 2018. The event will be held in Chicago, on June 1-3, and will be hosted by the historic Palette & Chisel Academy of Fine Arts. This is our chapter’s annual event and will be our 4th Seminar since the chapter’s inception in 2012. […]
Recordando a Chicago
[Por Mário Linhares, cuando estaba en Chicago, EE.UU.] Asistir a un Simposio es una oportunidad para aprender y crecer. Para conocer la cultura. Para conocer el idioma. Para conocer la comida. Para conocer a la gente. Para conocer a los dibujantes. Para aprender nuevas técnicas de dibujo. Para conocer nuevas cosas de arte. Para aprender [...]
Explorando el centro de Chicago y más allá
[By Richard Sheppard in Chicago, Illinois] Accommodations for the Urban Sketchers Symposium can be quite comfortable if you have a friend who’s nice enough to use thousands of accumulated Marriott points. My friend Phil had enough points to score the Blackstone Hotel, just two blocks from the Goodman Center where the Symposium was centered in downtown […]
Enamorarse del mundo, boceto a boceto
[Guest post by Jane Wingfield in Olympia, Seattle, Centralia, Chicago and New York] I was reading a fellow sketcher’s blog a while back, and she posed the question, “Why do you sketch?” It’s a question I ask myself often. It can be a nagging question – why? “Why are you doing this?” I hear my […]
How Art makes the city of Chicago vibrate!
[by Marion Rivolier from Paris, France] I was lucky to be an instructor for the 8th Urban Sketchers Symposium in Chicago in July. As a Parisian, I am not comfortable with the incredible scale of American cities. When I arrived in Chicago, I was so surprised by the height of the skyscrapers that I thought […]
¡Gracias Chicago!
[By Paul Wang in Chicago] Finally I am fully recovered from my trip to Chicago and New York City. Thank you Chicago for the wonderful symposium experience. Big thank you to the local team for your hard work too. So glad to meet up with old and new friends during the symposium. My sketching family […]
Resultado del maratón de bocetos antes, durante y después del simposio
［by Kumi Matsukawa in Chicago, USA］ I attended this year’s symposium held in Chicago. As a mere participant, I wanted to reduce the airfare budget, I used Cathay Pacific connecting flight ( I needed to travel from Tokyo to Hong kong, and from Hong Kong to Chicago and that took me 24h) and repeated the […]