A World of Knowledge at International Symposium

me on left in Urban People session (photo: © Elizabeth Alley)

Three Whidbey Island Sketchers attended the 1st International Urban Sketching Symposium in Portland, OR last week.

What an amazing experience to learn from and sketch with Urban Sketchers from every continent (except South America and Antarctica)! 



Here are four of my favorite sketches.  To see more, go to my Urban Sketching Symposium set on flickr. 

We gained lots of practice in twice-daily field sketching sessions.  Here are two of mine from Urban Architecture sessions (this was a fabulous store, Cargo, in the Pearl District)

More challenging architecture on final afternoon sketching a private party with band at Irving Street Kitchen in the Pearl District. 

... and Urban Color (this was my favorite field session where I tried a new color technique used by Tia Boon Sim from Singapore while sketching at Portland's Saturday Market)

... and Urban People (this one was on the train home).

For lots more about this 1st International Urban Sketching Symposium, go to the symposium blog or the symposium flickr page. 

Sketch, Mike, Sketch

A few of us Whidbey Island Sketchers are attending the 1st International Urban Sketching Symposium in Portland, Oregon later this month. Participants have been introducing themselves and sharing their work on a blog created for the event. One of the participants, Mike Daikubara, shared his Issuu book entitled "Sketch Mike Sketch" about his journey into sketching. It is so well done, so charming and so educational, I want to share it with the sketchers group. His book is a course in sketching in itself.  Sit back and enjoy.