It was such a treat to have two full day sketchmeets with Urban Sketchers Los Angeles and on this second one, we spent the day in Venice and Santa Monica. The terrible Californian wildfires had just started a day or two before and so there was some concern about air quality but thankfully we only...
CONTINUE READINGThursday 8 November After my amazing day with Brenda Swenson I wanted to have a little solo sketching time to absorb it all. So I headed into the downtown and visited one of my biggest must-see’: Frank Gehry’s Walt Disney Concert Hall. I think that it’s really important to spend time processing new ideas and...
CONTINUE READINGI had a little over a week in the LA area after Sketchkon and I decided to stay in Pasadena as my base. I had a similar week-long stay in Lisbon after the Urban Sketchers Symposium at the end of my big European trip earlier in the year. The Lisbon visit was insanely busy with...
CONTINUE READINGIn the last article I described my activities in the 1.5 days in Pasadena before Sketchkon. Now it’s time to tackle the big event itself. I attended it as a normal participant (not a presenter) but had two small tasks (giving a short talk and leading a 1 hour sketchcrawl). Not having a heavy work...
CONTINUE READINGI arrived in Pasadena on Wednesday afternoon and was very happy with the view of City Hall from my room at The Westin (the venue for Sketchkon). BTW Sketchkon was the first in-person convention for Sketchbook Skool (founders Danny Gregory and Koosje Koene) and was run in association with Artists Network. You can find out...
CONTINUE READINGOne of the highlights of my half day in San Francisco in 1999 (my first trip to USA) was visiting a little building by Frank Lloyd Wright (FLW) – originally the VC Morris Gift Store – which was a prototype for the Guggenheim in NYC. So I was pretty happy when Laurie Wigham suggested we...
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