Gearing up for Day 2! I wasn’t super happy with my work from day 1 so I wanted to warm up with some sketches before breakfast. So great to make new sketching friends over breakfast – Shiho and Elizabeth. And catch up with what Gerard had been doing – wow! Morning Workshop: Urban architecture with...
CONTINUE READINGAnd so it begins… Gabi opening the symposium – so exciting! Morning Workshop: Urban People with Veronica Lawlor – Powell’s bookstore First morning of the Urban Sketchers Symposium I was doing Urban People with Veronica. We sketched people in Powells books for a few hours. I was certainly not in the groove – many of...
CONTINUE READINGTravelling from Seattle to Portland A group of Seattle urban sketchers plus the gang from the night before meet at the station to catch the train to Portland. Amongst the Seattle sketches was the famous Frank Ching – it was amazing for me to meet him and it is no surprise that he and Gerard...
CONTINUE READINGQueen Mary’s Tearoom It’s pretty crazy that the first place I visited in the USA – the first destination during my 11 week trip – was a tearoom! Here is my over the top sketch of a great tearoom (which was very over the top!) If you are interested my friend took a video at...
CONTINUE READINGIt is really fun now that I am home re-living some of the great times I had at the beginning of my trip. As I was visiting friends in Seattle to begin with, I was very privileged to be able to have dinner with a few of the Urban Sketcher Correspondents – the night before...
CONTINUE READINGJust to let you know that I have started scanning Volume 1 – so hopefully in a few days I will be able to post it as a complete book to flick through – but in the meantime here are so bits and pieces Flight from Syd to San Fran and then to Seattle....
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