3rd International Urban Sketching Symposium

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I just created a new film: it's a sketching demonstration using my Inktense watercolour pencils, done on location at Costa Coffee in Broomhill, in Sheffield. We did a SketchCrawl there in April ...

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nycSketch: NYCSketch-Year 1 : One year ago I found out about Urban Sketchers and decided to sketch...at least sketch more often. It has been a great year of sketching. ...

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Hey All! So I've been wanting to post these sketches up for a while. I'm sorry for the delay but I do hope you enjoy. The urban sketching symposium was truly a magnificent experience for me and...

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The train' sketch was made during Lynne Chapman excellent workshop "Quick on the Draw", where she told us to incorporate texts to the drawings in order to catch the sounds of our surrounding en...

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Hotel Frances Figured it out at last!  Now I can say thank you to Idalina for helping me to blog and upload. My biggest thank you of all is to Idalina for making me come to Santo Domino a...

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First "Drink and Draw" at Quintana, where after workshops people gathered to, well, drink and draw. Sketch at bottom is during the morning lecture of the second day. Tom Thorspecken was speakin...

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The night workshop, Drink and Draw at Quintana Bar.

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Este pequeño cuaderno vivió en mi bolsillo durante 4 meses entre el 2 de abril y el 13 de julio de 2012. Lo dibujé en Barcelona, Málaga y Santo Domingo. Aquí está con todas sus páginas, de...

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De Santo Domingo no he traido muchos dibujos de arquitectura y ambientes. Los estaba haciendo en el cuaderno que Laloran  regaló a los participantes en el Simposium pero lo olvidé dentro de ...

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Algunos de los colegas, compañeros, amigos, camaradas, compadres, conocidos y demás cofrades del dibujeo cuadernoso con los que me topé en Santo Domingo. Some of the colleagues, mates, fri...

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It took a while, but I'm finally uploading some of the sketches of the Symposium. I have only great memories and kind words from the event. So (soo) much learned, so many awesome people, and lo...

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Por la mañana Parque Colón  me recordaba "Los lunes al sol ", la enorme película de Fernando León de Aranoa . Muchos hombres solos o en pequeños grupos de dos o tres. Pocas mujeres, que...

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We hired a taxy for a day and went to two beaches outside the hotel. The upper sketch was done at one of them in Juanillo. Very quiet and beautiful. I couldn't resist the VW van that belongu...

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The gardens of the Natura Park hotel were absolutely beautiful! Especially this Flamboyant trees!

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After the symposium I went with my wife and my 15 months tween daughters to Punta Cana. We stayed until the 25th of July at the Natura Park Resort. After lunch, while the little girls took a n...

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This is the drawing I've made at the sketchcrawl. My eyes were so tired, jet lag, that when I tried to draw they started to cry. Thank you all for making this a wonderfull symposium!! A ...

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Tea, Milk and Honey with Marc Holmes I learned a lot about watercolours with Marc. He shared his working process with us in a step by step demonstration. First he explained and exemplified the...

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El simposium terminó ayer y hoy nos vamos a la playa, que no se diga que hemos venido al Caribe y no nos hemos dado un baño. Hemos alquilado una furgoneta entre unos pocos: Eli y Víctor, Mela...

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Capturing the Event with Thomas Thorspecken Thor presented a really fresh and interesting perspective on his work. He told us about his working process as a professional sketch reporter. He sha...

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What’s behind an onion? Drawing on layers with Miguel Herranz and Swasky We were challenged to work less on perspective and more with the line and colour as a way to show the diffrent planes ...

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Quick on the Draw with Lynne Chapman The second exercise was all done with colour. We just could use two colors, that didn't match the subject, as a way of working with three tones: the two col...

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El tercer día dimos con un catalán de Girona que formaba parte del paisaje de hombres que miraba pasar el tiempo en los bancos de Parque Colón. Nos contó que llevaba ya unos años viviendo en...

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Quick on the Draw with Lynne Chapman Our first exercise was to grab some of Lynne's charcoal sticks and try to make some " Sexy Lines". Loose and acertive lines varying the pressure used as i...

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