In memoriam Eduardo Salavisa (1950-2020)
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The official zine of Urban Sketchers DECEMBER 2020
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PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE Dear USk Community, We have weathered a challenging year and it seems that there are more challenges ahead. In all this our community has found ways to cope and our organization has developed activities to keep everyone up to date and engaged. We ask that you stay engaged; find things to do that keep your mind and soul active and optimistic. Go to the USk YouTube channel and check out the USk Talks series. If you’re a Chapter Admin, join in to the quarterly
global admin meetings. Check out this and past DA articles to keep up with what others are doing around the world. There are challenges ahead but be assured that there are many activities and events planned for 2021. We have been seeing the creative ways in which you all have been able to keep urban sketching alive and vibrant. We’ve taken note and are planning some very special events for next year. Stay tuned! Please stay safe, engaged and sketching! Sketching together (one way or another), Richard Alomar, USk President
MANAGING EDITOR’S MESSAGE Greetings, Sketchers! As 2020 comes to a close, I wish you all a happy and (hopefully!) healthier new year, full of sketching with friends and loved ones. This month we get to know our new chapters in Cuenca, Ecuador (in Spanish), Newport News (Virginia, USA), USk Orillia (Ontario, Canada) and Pueblo (Colorado, USA). We also hear from sketchers in Korea about the 2020 Gyeongju Urban Sketch Festa, which took place against all odds, and offer a tribute to beloved Portuguese sketcher Eduardo Salavisa. Don’t forget to check out our expanded Holiday Book List for unique gift ideas
for the special sketchers in your life - including yourself! In this season of thanks, I would like to express my heartfelt gratitude to our brilliant Drawing Attention team of writers, translators, editors, and designers. If you’d like to join our team, send us a quick email at drawingattention@urbansketchers.org. I hope you enjoy our last issue of the year! Best wishes Patricia Chow Managing Editor Drawing Attention
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FAREWELL, SKETCHER
URBAN SKETCHERS LOST A GREAT FRIEND THIS YEAR WITH THE PASSING OF EDUARDO SALAVISA. BY MARK ALAN ANDERSON
SKETCH BY JAVIER DE BLAS
Eduardo was many things. The Lisbon-based artist and educator, blogger, workshopper, correspondent, and author of Diários de Viagem, was often referred to as a “drawer of the daily,” using a graphic diary to nurture and inspire students to draw. “I feel a close connection between travelling and drawing,” he once said, “a fact that has many advantages: I get lots of memories from my sketchbooks when I travel, and, the fact that I feel I am travelling whenever I draw, enables me to travel day after day, in my own town. And what I like about my hometown, Lisbon, is the unexpected meeting of the alley, the old square, and the 4 DRAWING ATTENTION
Tagus River, always peeking at every corner of the street.” Scrolling through Eduardo’s blog, it is immediately clear he made no attempt to draw with photographic precision. Rather, one is touched by a dynamic reality and a sense of place, an authenticity entirely devoid of pretense. His bold use of line fundamentally connected us with a moment in time, those sketches charmingly rendered in a fluid drawing style that was approachable and filled with charm. A native of Lisbon, Eduardo was a graduate of the Lisbon School of Fine Arts. He was also one of the founders of Urban Sketchers, a
passion reflected in his “systematic recording of everyday life because of its playful and at the same time didactic character,” according to the Bordalo Pinheiro Museum, where an exhibition of the latest collection of works by the secondary school teacher and illustrator for the daily newspaper Público was on display through November 15, 2020. The exhibition, An armchair and 96 portraits, was a farewell to his friends, a collection focused on friends who visited him during his final days. “I suspect that a lot of people have come to hug me one last time,” he is quoted as saying. True to the Urban Sketchers creed, he asked his friends to sketch his funeral.
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WELCOME, MOHAN! Urban Sketchers would like to welcome Mohan Banerji to the role of USk Sponsorship Director. He has been a Sponsorship Coordinator since January 2019. Mohan first came across urban sketching when he attended a London sketch meet at St. Pancras Station in 2016. It would be no exaggeration to say that he has been totally hooked since then (he is a co-founder of the USk Reading chapter). After years of travelling and working in corporate environments around the world, Mohan has settled in Finchampstead, Wokingham, UK. You can contact Mohan at sponsorship@urbansketchers.org.
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esde los Andes, un grupo lleno de juventud y energía nos revela con sus dibujos la arquitectura y patrimonio cultural de su hermosa ciudad. El grupo Urban Sketchers Cuenca se encuentra ubicado en la región andina de Azuay, en Cuenca, ciudad Patrimonio Cultural de la Humanidad. Es administrado por Jorge Temesaca, Luis Fernández y por un importante grupo de organizadores como: Alba Ormaza, Pablo Zúñiga, Paul Narváez, Patricio Orellana “El Cuervo”, Felipe Galindo y Katherine Pineda. Inician su andadura hace siete años de la mano de Jorge Temesaca, arquitecto y docente en la Universidad de Cuenca. Las primeras salidas surgen para incentivar a los alumnos de arquitectura en la práctica del dibujo fuera del espacio académico. Hace dos años, organizaron un encuentro de dibujo al que invitan al arquitecto y artista Mauricio López de USk Quito, lo que les permitió conocer mejor el movimiento global USk. Esto les animará a iniciar su proceso de membresía como grupo Usk, que finalizará en abril de 2020. Nos comentan que su mayor reto durante este proceso ha sido la frecuencia de los encuentros. El formar parte de la comunidad global USk les ha brindado un nuevo espacio común para el dibujo que no existía hasta entonces, así como la oportunidad de aprender unos de otros y la de crear nuevos lazos de amistad. Además, contar con el apoyo de una gran comunidad de dibujantes les ha hecho crecer y sumar iniciativas. Participan en actividades conjuntas con otros grupos USk de
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Ecuador, como USk Guayaquil y USk Quito. Actualmente tienen en marcha nuevos proyectos con diferentes grupos USk de Colombia, además de colaborar con colectivos de artistas y dibujantes, como la arquitecta Cristina Correa. En su trayectoria como dibujantes urbanos han organizado diversos encuentros de dibujo como: Caminar y dibujar o Liberando el Lápiz en las Catedrales. Para su desarrollo han contando con diferentes apoyos como la Universidad de Cuenca, el Colegio de Arquitectos y el patrocinio de empresas locales dedicadas a las bellas artes, artes gráficas, restauración, etc. Los integrantes de USk Cuenca se comunican principalmente a través de Instagram y Facebook. Estas redes sociales han cobrado una especial importancia durante la pandemia, sobre todo cuando la actividad presencial no ha sido posible. Durante este tiempo organizaron una serie de charlas en directo a través de la plataforma Zoom con dibujantes invitados. Jorge Tenesaca nos cuenta que durante el confinamiento el dibujo ha sido la “pastillita” que les ha ayudado para aguantar el encierro, les ha alimentando de manera creativa el alma y les ha devuelto la mirada a lo más cercano. También nos quiere transmitir la gran experiencia del dibujo urbano en su vida, por su horizontalidad, porque nos iguala a todos, sin importar nacionalidades o diferencias generacionales. La pasión por el dibujo nos une.
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2020 Gyeongju Urban Sketch Festa BY KEESUNG SONG
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00 Urban Sketchers. That was the number of attendees at the 2019 Gyeongju Urban Sketch Festa last year. This year, the scale was doubled to prepare for an event with 400 people. Last year, Paul Wang was invited as an overseas instructor, but this year we planned to invite four instructors. However, Korea could not avoid the global pandemic. But two weeks before D-day, the Gyeongju city government, the sponsor of the event, dramatically approved the event on the condition that the quarantine regulations were absolutely followed. All of the events, which had been prepared for 400 people, were reduced to 90 participants, according to the government’s social distancing policy. Both the opening and closing ceremonies were canceled and the number of participants per workshop was reduced from 15 to 7, with no overseas invited artists. Everything was possible
because it was free to participate due to support from the city of Gyeongju. Gyeongju is a city with a thousand years of history. Bomun Tourist Complex is Korea’s first comprehensive tourism and recreation complex, and Bomun Lake was designated as one of UNESCO’s three major heritage sites in Asia in 1979. This event was held at Bomun Sang Ga, an old shopping street in Bomun Tourist Complex. This area is now private property, where a large shopping mall will be built. The Gyeongju team wanted to leave a picture of their memories. They said it was very hard to persuade the company to allow us to hold the event here. Through 13 workshops and an open sketch walk, we left our memories of the place as pictures. We made every effort to comply with the quarantine rules, and through the active participation of all sketchers in social DECEMBER 2020 13
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distancing, we were able to finish the Festa without any incidents. Dong-sik Jung who planned and operated this event said, “This festival was a great opportunity to discover the precious value of our city through Urban Sketching, and to convey the value of the record through emotion.” The 2020 Gyeongju Urban Sketch Festa brought us great joy during the recent depressing and frustrating daily life. Next year, the situation will improve, so that more sketchers can enjoy it. Please safely endure this difficult time and hope to meet everyone again.
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행사 2주전, 극적으로 사회적 거리두기가 1단계로 낮아졌습니다. 경주시는 절대적으로 방역수칙을 지키는 조건으로 행사 진행을 승인 했습니다. 전체 참가자 수를 400명에서 90명으로 줄였고, 개막식/폐막식도 전면 폐지. 각각의 워크샵 참석자도 15명에서 7명으로 감축하고, 해외 작가 초청은 당연히 취소 했습니다. 이벤트 당일, 셔틀버스에서 만난 운영팀 ‘전시형’ 님은 "어제는 잠을 한숨도 못 잤다. 수많은 서류작업 때문에 2주간 정말 눈코뜰새 없이 바빴다" 라고 말하며 끊임없이 경주의 아름다움을 소개 했습니다. 천년의 역사가 살아 숨쉬는 도시 경주. 이곳의 ‘보문관광단지’는 한국 최초의 종합 관광 휴양단지 이고, ‘보문호수’는 1979년 유네스코 아시아 3대 유적으로 지정되었다고 합니다. 어반스케쳐스 경주 운영팀은 그곳의 추억을 그림으로 남기고 싶어 무척이나 애를 썼다고 합니다. 13개의 워크샵과 자유로운 스케치워크를 통해 우리의 여행을 스케치북에 담았습니다. 이번 행사의 총 기획자인 ‘정동식’ 작가는 “이번 페스타는 어반스케치를 통해 우리 도시의 소중한 가치를 발견했고, 또한 기록의 가치를 감성을 통해 전달하는 좋은 기회가 되었다” 라며, 이자리를 빌어 선착순에 밀려 경주에 올 수 없었던 모든 이에게 미안한 마음을 전하며, 내년에는 더 많은 스케쳐스가 즐길 수 있도록 준비하겠다고 말했습니다. 이번 ‘2020 경주 어반스케치 페스타’는 최근의 우울하고 답답하던 일상에 큰 기쁨을 가져다 주었습니다. 한국에서 이렇게 큰 어반스케치 행사가 진행된다는게 너무 즐거웠고, 앞으로 더 많아질 것이기에 기대하며 기다릴 것 입니다. 부디 안전하게 이 어려움을 극복하시길 바랍니다. 더 많은 경주 풍경을 보고 싶으신 분은 인스타그램에서 #uskgyeongju 를 검색하세요. 리모 작가님의 생생한 영상 후기도 만나보세요. https://youtu.be/Gmc5S547sVM 글쓴이 : 송기성 (어반스케쳐스 수원 운영자,
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ounded by Denise Mckenna, Daryl Russell and Mandy Lewis-Houston, Urban Sketchers Newport News is a new USk Regional Chapter on the East Coast of the United States. On January 20, 2018, Daryl hosted a meetup at Firehouse Coffee at Fort Monroe, hoping to meet likeminded artists who wanted to hang out and sketch together. One day, Mandy and Denise showed up, and they all felt they had found their tribe that day. During that first year, as the group got to know each other, they explored the idea of becoming an official Urban Sketchers Regional Chapter. They experimented with drawing at different locations and advertising on Facebook. To their delight, they discovered that many people wanted to get out to sketch and socialize with other artists. In their first incarnation, they were known as Urban Artist 757, a group
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that still exists, and runs alongside the official USk Newport News chapter, and offers a place to share non-urban sketching art and news. The group first applied to become an official USk chapter in late 2018. At the time they were using the name The Hampton Roads Urban Sketchers, which did not meet official USk naming conventions. They then decided to use Newport News as their designated city name and after reaching out to the Fredericksburg, Virginia chapter for help with the application process, they were encouraged to try again. Mandy sent in their revised application in March 2020, and in June, the group was very excited to learn that they had become an official USk chapter. PHOEBUS BY STEPHANIE FALESKI
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The pandemic has been difficult for USk Newport News. They have many older members and feel a responsibility to them. After trying Zoom, it quickly became apparent that it was not a good fit. However, they have managed to hold two official sketch walks. In April, with much caution and some uncertainty regarding safety, they were fortunate to partner with the Neighborhood Commissioner of Phoebus who worked with area residents and businesses to set up a meeting place and provide a map with points of interest. He even arranged for the group to use the garden of Sly Clyde Cider Works for a throwdown. The group felt safe and they were able to maintain social distancing. The event was so successful that they plan to do it again. USk Newport News has partnered with Hilton Art Walk, a very popular local art event, and workshops with the Downing-Gross Cultural Arts Center and opportunities for exhibitions are planned for the future. The group is excited about these partnerships and loves being part of something bigger. They use three platforms for communication: Meetup, Facebook, and an email list for their older members. Artwork by members on the email list is shared via their group photo during throwdowns. They have dabbled with Instagram, and will return to it in the new year when they find a bright young person to help run it.
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USk ORILLIA BY MEG LESLIE AND MJ POLLAK
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rban Sketchers Orillia was founded in December of 2018. Meg Leslie had been participating in the Urban Sketchers of Waterloo Region where she lived previously, and wanted to bring urban sketching home with her to Orillia, a small city in Ontario, Canada. Orillia’s artistic roots run deep, including being home to Canadian artists Elizabeth Wyn Wood and Franklin Carmichael.
Facebook page and Instagram account proved to be a wonderful outlet for our sketching proclivities. Members sketched around our homes and through our windows and doors, and posted our efforts online. We were also able to connect by Zoom with Urban Sketchers Toronto. We share our own sketches as well as sketches from international groups to our group page for inspiration.
Urban sketching was embraced whole-heartedly the first weekend that we launched Urban Sketchers Orillia on Facebook with over 80 people joining in! There was an enthusiastic turn-out for our first gathering, held at the Orillia Museum of Art and History (OMAH), where participants sketched artifacts on display as well as the beautiful historic building.
In the Spring of 2020, outside sketching proved to be the perfect opportunity to gather safely while maintaining physical distancing. A highlight during the summer was a visit to a local artist’s cottage, located on gorgeous Lake Simcoe….one participant paddled her kayak over, and two participants came from Toronto to join in. Another delightful event in the early fall was a group invitation to a local artist retreat called Rancho Relaxo, held on two expansive properties owned by a local patron of the arts, one location in beautiful Severn Township and one in incredible Georgian Bay. As we move back into cold weather, we have been posting sketch challenges for members. We also connect with other Ontario Urban Sketchers groups and participate in their challenges and events. We are currently planning day by day, as the second wave of COVID 19 leaves us on our toes.
Since our launch, gatherings have been planned six months in advance, and held on a monthly basis. We have had a wide variety of locations, such as the city library, a large food emporium, the local cat shelter, sketch by kayak, and many historically significant locations. We often joke about the title ‘urban sketchers’ when our locations are often quite ‘rural.’ On May 4, 2020, Urban Sketchers Orillia was approved as a recognized chapter by Urban Sketchers International. As a group, we were absolutely thrilled! When the pandemic restrictions began in March 2020, our group 24 DRAWING ATTENTION
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Welcome USk PUEBLO, Colorado BY CATHY GUTTERMAN
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rban Sketchers of Pueblo, Colorado is a new USk Regional Chapter founded by Sally Lincoln, Teresa Vito, and Joe Cawlfield. Teresa and Sally have been drawing together since the early 2000’s when Sally started a live model drawing group in Pueblo. Their life drawing group bit the dust around 2006 when Sally started traveling more and no one wanted to take over the leadership. Sally had been looking for a way to get something started again when she discovered Urban Sketchers in 2018. She knew instantly that a group in Pueblo would take off because there are many well-known local artists who exhibit all over Colorado and further afield. Membership has steadily increased from their earliest days, boosted by association with local organizations and businesses, as well as occasional local publicity. Sketching during the pandemic has been a significant challenge. Early on, USk Pueblo decided not to meet. They missed the social aspect of the community. Instead of meeting up, sketching together and sharing, they captured the view from a window, pets, plants and similar scenes. Not content with solitary sketching being the norm, meeting coordinator Teresa Vito used her ingenuity to find safe places for the group to sketch. For example, Teresa made arrangements with directors of local museums and tourist sites to open just for the Pueblo Urban Sketchers, allowing them to socially distance and enjoy having an entire venue to themselves. As a result of these arrangements, the group’s sketches have raised community awareness for the locales and the directors have been very pleased to be able to open, even if in a limited capacity.
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One time, while everyone was sketching in a place called Neon Alley, the Colorado State Fair Fiesta Queen and her attendants came through and posed on location. Joe Cawlfield caught the queens with his camera and Teresa Vito captured the scene with her paintbrush. It’s a little more difficult now with the colder weather, but they have been doing car meetups. To remain creative, they have also used prompts like “Sketch where you do your artwork.”
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As with many USk groups, USk Pueblo has been frustrated by the lack of a good unaffiliated platform for communicating with each other. Their default is Facebook, but a number of USk Pueblo members don’t have (or want) Facebook profiles, so they also use email. The administrators have read the USk threads on this subject with interest, but it is evident that this is a common and currently unresolved issue.
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PHIL’S TIPS: FOR ASPIRING SKETCHERS AND ACCOMPLISHED STUDENTS ALIKE: DON’T WORRY ABOUT MAKING IT PERFECT. JUST TELL A STORY. AND DON’T MAKE YOUR SKETCHBOOKS SACROSANCT –– MISTAKES ARE PART OF THE PROCESS. DRAW DAILY TO GET INTO THE GROOVE OF DRAWING AS A LIFESTYLE. I’VE FILLED AT LEAST 38 BOOKS IN THE SEVEN YEARS SINCE I MOVED TO LONDON.
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ondoner Phil Dean refers to himself as “old school” since he attended art school in the 1980s and launched his career in the pre-computer era. In his first job at a commercial art studio in Northern England, he was surrounded by gobs of rubber cement, T-squares and old school ‘old boys’ who prided themselves on their drawing abilities. “It was all about hands-on skills, they were real craftsmen,” Phil said. Phil, aka “Shoreditch Sketcher,” began drawing outdoors during his art school years after growing weary of drawing endless models. He asked the instructor if they might draw something else. So he and other art students eagerly went outside to sketch buildings, at the airport, and at the local police station, even drawing police motorcycles.“I’ve never looked back after that,” he said.
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Phil ran across Urban Sketchers about 5 years ago, while looking for inspiration on Instagram. A lot of USk work resonated. “I thought: this is amazing,” he said. “It was exciting to see this was a thing.” He dove into USk and recently taught a class at the USk Switzerland Symposium. “Sketchers were drawing at breakfast, lunch, dinner, over drinks, everywhere!” he said. “It’s an incredible culture; I was blown away. It has a real community feeling to it.” Phil loves the simplicity of sketching on location with traditional materials, making magic so simply, with a pen, some colors and paper. “We get to be analog in a digital world,” he said.
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Phil sketches with an Edding 55 fine line pen, then follows with watercolors on a Moleskine pad. He envisions the whole double-page pad as a single canvas. He is currently working to create his own line of sketchbooks. Clearly, Phil is a busy guy. But don’t expect to see him slacking off. Because back in the 1980s, he received some ‘high caliber’ advice. One day, a drawing instructor stepped into class dressed in black, gangster style, complete with a ‘tommy’ gun. He wanted to emphasis to the class to be bold and fearless when drawing.
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“Be bold, or else!” was the lesson. That was almost forty years ago, but evidently the lesson stuck. He hasn’t stopped drawing since.“Probably couldn’t do that sort of stuff nowadays, but it still makes me laugh,” Phil said.
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Holiday Booklist 2020
2020 HOLIDAY BOOK LIST
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LOOKING FOR A SPECIAL GIFT FOR AN URBAN SKETCHER THIS HOLIDAY SEASON? HERE IS A SELECTION OF BOOKS ON URBAN SKETCHING TOPICS THAT WERE PUBLISHED THIS YEAR...
THE COMPLETE URBAN THE ADDICTIVE SKETCHING COMPANION SKETCHER BY SHARI BLAUKOPF, STEPHANIE BY ADEBANJI ALADE BOWER & GABRIEL CAMPANARIO
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LAYERS OF LOOKING BY IAN FENNELLY
URBAN SKETCHING – AN ARTIST’S GUIDE BY ISABEL CARMONA ANDREU
DRAWING EXPRESSIVE PEOPLE BY RÓISÍN CURÉ
ANYONE CAN SKETCH BY NIRAJ GUPTA
DRAWING WITH A TABLET BY UMA KELKAR
Holiday Booklist 2020
COSTA ESMERALDA BY LAPIN
TECHNIQUES FOR BEGINNERS BY SUHITA SHIRODKAR
GROAR BY LAPIN
FIGUEROA STREET SKETCHES BY JOEY MASON
YORK BOULEVARD SKETCHES BY JOEY MASON
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Holiday Booklist 2020
BOOKS IN FRENCH
À LA RECHERCHE D’UN CADEAU PARTICULIER POUR UN URBAN SKETCHER POUR LES FÊTES DE FIN D’ANNÉE? VOICI UNE SÉLECTION DE LIVRES SUR L’URBAN SKETCHING QUI ONT ÉTÉ PUBLIÉS CETTE ANNÉE.
DESSINER UN CARNET DE VOYAGE PAR RENATA LAHALLE
28M2- CARNET DE CONFINEMENT PAR MAT LET
INTO THE GREEN BY HYUNJOO CHOI
NORDIC WHITE NIGHTS CITIES BY RIMO KIM
BOOKS IN KOREAN
101 CONSEILS POUR RÉUSSIR SES |CROQUIS PAR STEPHANIE BOWER
URBAN SKETCHING IN PORTUGAL BY CACOL
40 DRAWING ATTENTION
CAPTURER L’ÂME D’UN LIEU PAR LA FORME ET LA COULEUR À L’AQUARELLE PAR MARION RIVOLIER
Review
BOOKS IN SPANISH
ESTÁS BUSCANDO UN REGALO ESPECIAL PARA UN URBAN SKETCHER EN ESTAS FIESTAS? AQUÍ HAY UNA SELECCIÓN DE LOS LIBROS SOBRE URBAN SKETCHING QUE SE PUBLICARON ESTE AÑO.
RIBERA SACRA EN ACUARELAS POR EDUARDO BAAMONDE
PARKA REVIEWS BY TEOH YI CHIE VENECIA: ACUARELAS DE VIAJE IRÁN: CUADERNO DE VIAJE CON ACUARELAS AUSTRALIA ACUARELAS DE VIAJE SEGOVIA: CUADERNO DE VIAJE POR JOAQUÍN GONZÁLEZ DORAO
DIARIO DIBUJADO DE UN CONFINAMIENTO POR RAÚL DEAMO
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Teoh Yi Chie is an infographics journalist who joined Urban Sketchers Singapore in 2009. He’s probably better known as Parka from Parkablogs. com, a website that reviews art books and art products. This month Parka video reviews the Winsor & Newton Designers Gouache. Check it out!
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