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things i loved about the symposium...
massive highlight. Sharing sketchbooks, techniques, stories and above all seeing that excited energy when we finally met the sketchers who we regularly follow and admire on social media.
politely move away while they filmed, but instead they wanted to film us sketching the gallery. So now, Auckland has become a destination for sketching within that travel blog!
Sketching the Auckland Art Gallery building was a must-do sketch for me. It was also a sketch that ended up with an interesting and unexpected story. As I was sitting with my friend Judy Salleh amongst a few hire bikes and traffic cones sketching the gallery, we were approached by a UK film crew who were filming a travel blog for Singapore Airlines. I expected them to ask us to
JOYFUL, EXCITING, INVIGORATING
Sally Black, Canberra, Australia
Auckland was my first international Symposium. I had a pretty good idea of how the event would run as I have been to two USK Asia Link events – one in Kuching and the other in Taichung. The excitement and buzz that was evident amongst the sketchers was a