We're Going Though a Phase

Sketch by Mary Jo Ernst

Let’s Sketch Chicago

Open For Business Phase 4

 Sunday, June 28

Public

 · Hosted by Mary Jo Ernst and Urban Sketchers Chicago

Let’s keep the ball rolling and sketch our favorite businesses as Illinois institutes Phase 4 of Reopening. Please take advantage of our great weather, get out and sketch on location and share your sketches on our group facebook page this Sunday 12-3pm. Remember to tag your sketches with #uskchicago #uskathome so that we may share your work on our group Instagram account. 

We are back to following global’s posting guidelines of sketching live on location and not from reference photos.

Remember to social distance and wear a mask when out to help us move along safely in our reopening.

Happy Sketching! Share your skills to support our local businesses

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Skeletons?

In Your Closet!

Sketch by Alex Zonis - 

This is not my scariest closet :)

Let's sketch 

 In Your Closet!

Sunday, June 21

2 PM-3 PM

Hosted by Alex Zonis and Urban Sketchers Chicago

 

A few weeks ago Barbara and I were talking about closets.

It went like this:

Alex: I have many great closets, but they are so full of junk that nothing more fits. One of them closets is really scary - every time I open it something falls out, usually on my foot.
Barbara: Isn’t the quarantine especially designed to organize our closets?
Alex: Oh….
Alex: Did you organize your closets?
Barbara: NO!

In the last few months we have become very closely acquainted. We have seen our kitchens, workspaces, food pantries, even bathrooms. Now let’s see our closets! I have it on a good authority that at least two of us have skeletons … well, skulls … stored in them. This Sunday we will take a look.

As usual, the event will run from 12:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. Posting officially is from 2:45 - 3:00 p.m. But since Sunday is Father’s Day and you may have plans, feel free to sketch and post whenever through out the day. Don't forget to include the hashtags in your caption: #uskathome #uskchicago

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Open for Business

Let's sketch

Open for Business!

Sunday, June 14

Hosted by Wes Douglas and Urban Sketchers Chicago

Now that many businesses have started to find ways to slowly reopen or stay open in a safe manner, our next challenge is to celebrate your favorite business. This is an activity that is best done by direct observation (please no photo references). 

• Sketch the exterior of their building, an outdoor dining experience or a representation of how you best interact with that business. For example, if you cannot visit a physical location, maybe you only deal with a business through its delivery to your front door. 
• Sketch your package delivery at your front door. 
• Sketch the delivery van, or the lunch you ordered at your table. Some restaurants now offer street dining, sketch that. 

Post your sketches sometime between Noon and 3:00pm, if you are able, and don't forget to include the hashtags in your caption: #uskathome #uskchicago

Have fun with this. And feel free to tell us why this is one of your favorite businesses. Above all, continue to practice safe distancing and stay healthy.

Questions? Ask Wes Douglas in the comments below. 

Looking forward to seeing your sketches on Sunday.

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Urban Sketching at Its Best

Documenting This Trying Time

Thank you to all USk Chicago sketchers who joined us on Sunday. See their neighborhoods from their personal vantage points during this troubling time. It is Urban Sketching in its truest sense.

Our Manifesto

• We draw on location, indoors or out, capturing what we see from direct observation.
• Our drawings tell the story of our surroundings, the places we live and where we travel.
• Our drawings are a record of time and place.
• We are truthful to the scenes we witness.
• We use any kind of media and cherish our individual styles.
• We support each other and draw together.
• We share our drawings online.
• We show the world, one drawing at a time.

Welcome to Our Worlds

The City

Alex Zonis

Ann Speltz

Arun Dabholka

Barbara Kay Herring 

Barbara Weeks

Eileen Martin Ferguson

Evelyn Brody

Jenny Zhang

Joann Harling

Marilyn Rugg‎

Mary Harney

Sandra Beaty

Sara Prokup

Yelina Noskina

The Burbs

Brad Bisbey

Brian Wright 

Carla Milano Nelson

Debbe Rigney-Hays

Harold Goldfus

Lynne Fairchild‎

Sherry Smith

Shruti Vijay 

Suzanne Royals

Wes Douglas

Out-of-State

Anna Rappaport

Bob Glazauskis

Heather Hultgren

Lynn Pauly

Patricia Fallon

Covid Hero 

A special thank you to Michelle Kaim. Thank you for being on the pandemic front-line. Thank you for taking some of your free time to share your sketches from the Covid unit in your hospital with us. We look forward to the time when we can all sketch together again.

Michelle Kaim 

Michelle Kaim

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Do You See WhatI See?

Photo by Alex Zonis "Boarded up Whole Foods in Edgewater"

Let's sketch

Document This Time

Sunday, June 7

Hosted by Alex Zonis and Urban Sketchers Chicago

We are living in troubled times. 

No-one is left untouched with what is happening in the world, in our country, in our city. This week we will do a visual documentary of what is happening in our neighborhoods.

Follow our Urban Sketchers Manifesto. Draw what you see happening in real life.

• If you are homebound, please sketch what you see from your window or how your home reflects current events. Please no sketches from TV or internet.
• If you are an essential worker - Thank you for doing your work for us all! Perhaps you can take a few minutes and sketch and share from your workplace - please be safe and do not take unnecessary risks.
• If you are venturing into the streets, draw your neighborhood and let us see it too. Be safe and careful, practice social distancing, do not risk going into hot spots, and abide by your city curfew.

Together let's make a documentary of this time.

Please post your sketches on USk Chicago FB group on Sunday between 12pm and 3pm. Stick around and let's talk about what we saw and drew.

Happy Sketching
Peace and Good Health to all!

Please include #USkAtHome and #USkChicago so we can all find them!

See you Sunday!

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