Monday After my usual day of rest and worship on Sunday, I headed to Lisbon on the train on Monday morning with Suhita. As we were walking out of the station we ran into Lizette and Peter from South Africa who I hadn’t seen at all during the Symposium (another indication of how big the...
CONTINUE READINGMy Porto workshop was called “it’s all in the details”and the idea suggested by this is that the character of the building is in all the details. The details are what we are initially drawn to. However it was also an intentionally provocative title as it seemed to go against everything I have taught for...
CONTINUE READINGI’ve been to every Symposium (all nine of them) and so I’ve seen the event grow dramatically over the years. I have found the last few (Chicago and Manchester) very different from the early ones, mainly because of the size and in some measure have struggled with the bigger numbers. I am ‘on’ all the...
CONTINUE READINGOne of the highlights of my time in Porto was the 9.30-11.30pm sketching session which we had inside Livraria Lello – a beautiful bookstore which is famous for inspiring JK Rowling. Since 2015 the bookstore has charged for admission and normally there are 200-300 people inside at the one time. Whoa! way too crowded. We...
CONTINUE READINGFollowing on from my three quiet days in Porto the week before the annual Urban Sketchers Symposium, today I will share what I got up to during the final days prior to the start of the big event. I knew that a lot of people were turning up in Porto over the weekend, so I...
CONTINUE READINGArriving in Porto I arrived in Porto late on Tuesday 10 July, a full week before the Urban Sketchers Symposium began. I always try to be one of the first sketchers to arrive in a symposium city, so that I get a chance to do my workshop preparation and explore the city in calmness before...
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