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Let’s Sketch!

Best of Covidtine

Sunday, March 14

12 PM - 3 PM CST

Hosted by 

 Evelyn Brody and Urban Sketchers Chicago

USk Chicago marked the last Ides of March with our first USk Chicago at Home virtual meet-up, and we haven’t missed a themed week since. (Many thanks, admins and guest hosts!) 

As the vaccine rollout brings the promise of a return to normalcy, let’s take the opportunity to reflect on what we’ve accomplished over this crazy year.

Details:

This Sunday, we would like everyone to post their favorite sketch(es?) from the last twelve months. Perhaps staring into your closet early on in the lockdown brought you peace. Perhaps you want to commemorate the summer struggles of a local business. Or did you find solace this fall or winter sketching with a few (masked and socially distanced) friends? Let’s share those masterpieces!

Of course, with this week’s glorious weather, it’s a pleasure to be sketching outside. As always, feel free to also post new work!

And don’t forget to set your clocks ahead this weekend. Yay, later sunsets!

The banner image is a crop of a collage of Evelyn Brody's 2020 Procreate sketches for USk Chicago virtual meetups.

Share your Urban Sketches with us from 12 noon to 3pm on Sunday. Please include #uskchicago and #uskathome on your posts to Facebook and Instagram.

Want to keep up to date by email? Fill in your email address in the place provided in the upper right corner under the banner. We look forward to hearing from you.

Seeing the Light

 Let’s Sketch!

Winter Light

Sunday, February 28

12 PM - 3 PM CST

Hosted by  Brian Wright, and Urban Sketchers Chicago

As we begin to thaw out and start thinking of the spring weather that will soon be here, we want to take an opportunity to celebrate the Winter Light, the long shadow, the cool pale blue light, the bright white reflection, the red of dawn or dusk, as inspired by T.S. Eliot in “Little Gidding”.

“Midwinter spring has its’ own season,
When the short day is brightest, with frost and fire,
The brief sun flames on the ice, on pond and ditches,
In windless cold that is the heart’s heat,
Reflecting in a watery mirror,
A glare that is blindness in the early afternoon.
And a glow more intense than blaze of branch.”

Come on, how good is that?!

The days are growing longer and while we look forward to the time when we can all be together again sketching, until then, let’s enjoy the season we’re in. So, grab a hat, fingerless gloves, frozen watercolor pans, and take that walk, and share your art! And if you're so inclined a winter light poem or haiku.

This week’s banner sketch is graciously provided by the talented Joan Szalay Tavolott, with whom I had pleasure of sketching with in Amsterdam at the USK Symposium. Her painting from her window so beautifully captures that winter scene, and I love how the footprints in the snow draw you in. We thank you for agreeing to let us use your photo and for visually taking us on that walk in the woods.

Share your Urban Sketches with us from 12 noon to 3pm on Sunday
Please include #uskchicago and #uskathome on your posts to Facebook and Instagram.

A reminder that we are back to following USK Global's posting guidelines of sketching live on location and not from reference photos.

Want to keep up to date by email? Fill in your email address in the place provided in the upper right corner under the banner. We look forward to hearing from you.