[Simo Capecchi from Naples] In 2015 I spent a lots of time observing and sketching in a tailoring lab in my own town: Cesare Attolini‘s family has been a renowned bespoke tailor for men’s fashion since the Thirties. famous for having created the first “deconstructed” jacket, soft and comfortable, to be worn as second skin. When I […]
[by Simo Capecchi in Ischia, Italy] On last August 21 an earthquake in Casamicciola village on Ischia island made 2 victims and obliged 2.000 citizens to find a new home. In the same area two big quakes already happened in 1881 and 1883: the village was completely destroyed and back then victims were more than […]
[by Simo Capecchi, Ischia, Italy] In September I was kindly hosted on board of the “Jean Gab”. This beautiful cutter from the Thirties is the floating laboratory of Oceanomare Delphis, an association dedicated to the observation and research on cetaceans in the Mediterranean sea and in the Gulf of Naples. Their mission is to promotes conservation […]
USk is pleased to announce a new workshop led by Gabi Campanario (guest artist and instructor), Simo Capecchi and Caroline Peyron (instructors), Cristina Portolano (guest correspondent) and Franco Lancio as art director. in Ischia, Italy October 4-8, 2017. In this year’s participants will explore practical tips for sketching and reporting from the field using the […]
update: flip The Ischia Sketcher journal italian version VI Naples Urban Sketchers Workshop On Assignment: Reportage from Ischia Island Castello Aragonese, Ischia island, October 4/8, 2017 WHAT: A sketch-journalism workshop for artists interested in honing their craft as visual storytellers, especially those urban sketchers seeking to publish their work in magazines or newspapers. WHO: With Gabi Campanario […]
[by Simo Capecchi from Singapore] Recently I flipped through an “old” sketchbook, where I reported a ritual inside a Chinese temple in Singapore during our Urban Sketchers Symposium in 2015 and nice memories of that trip came alive again. In Kwan Im Thong Hood Cho temple, people of any age would stop for a long […]
Few weeks ago we received a box with luxury watercolor paper by Hahnemuehle who kindly sponsors our next September workshop in Tuscany. I went to Volterra for a survey and I could test the paper with my friend Majid Modir. We had choosen two kind of 100% cotton, 300 gms, 40×30 cm. watercolor blocks: Turner and […]
There are a couple of spots available still at the USk Workshop in Volterra, Italy taught by Simo Capecchi. To learn more click here to watch this video.
Being in Giudecca (Venice) for a reportage on Alvaro Siza’s social houses in Campo di Marte, I was curious to go around the island that I had not visited since many years ago. I walked randomly and chose this house with a huge garden facing the lagoon and several statues that could be seen behind […]
Simo Capecchi from Venice. As Mario Linhares already greatly reported on Urban Sketchers and more in details on his blog, he invited me to join him, Josè Louro and Benedetta Dossi to sketch a few days before the opening of Portuguese Pavilion in Giudecca’s island, at the 15th Architecture Biennale in Venice, on behalf of DGArtes, a department of […]
USk is pleased to announce the seventh Nature / Sculpture workshop in Volterra. Join the instructors as they focus on highlighting the relationship between art and nature in landscapes. For more information please click here.
instructors Simo Capecchi, Caroline Peyron guest artist Majid Modir in partnership with Villa Le Guadalupe. Sponsored by Hahnemühle italian translation here Once again our next Volterra workshop will focus on landscape highlighting the relationship between art and nature. Classic Tuscan panoramas that have inspired artists over the centuries and modern artists whose designs are strongly connected with […]