Times They Are a Changing!

More time to savor the Workshop Lineup! 

If you haven't already read descriptions of our sixteen Workshops, you can check them out on the Seminar Blog.

Be smart, stay healthy, wash your hands, and keep on sketching!

Eenie, Meenie, Miney, Mo, to Which Workshops Will You Go?

Here’s the workshop lineup for the 2019 Sketch Seminar.

From this amazing lineup of eighteen workshops,

what four will you choose?

1.  Aaron Elswick – Fake It Till You Make It: Sketchin’ Like You Don’t Care
2.  Alex Zonis & MJ Ernst – Fountain Pen World
3.  Amy Larsen – Sketching on the iPad with Procreate and the Apple pencil
4.  Barbara Weeks – Watercolor: Focused, Fast, and Fun
5.  Brian Wright & Suzala Zahler – Composition Tells the Story!
6.  Gabriel Campanario – Chicago in Your Pocket Sketchbook
7.  Jenny Zhang – Let Lines Walk on Paper: Cityscape Sketch with Loose Lines and Light Color
8.  Jingo de la Rosa – Think with your hands!
9.  Joann Harling Larsen – Demystifying Drawing People in Urban Landscape
10. John A Hancock – Richness and Simplicity w/Ink Pen & Brush-Pen
11. Lisa Flahive – Capturing Chicago’s Rhythm and Energy
12. Marek Badzynski – Chicago Skyline with Fude Nib and Water-Soluble Graphite
13. Mark Jones– Go BOLD with Color Pencils!
14. Nishant Jain – Be Sneaky: Sketching People To Liven Your Urban Landscape
15. Paul Heaston – Umbrella Perspective, Chicago Style!
16. Paul Ingold – Light & Shadow: Urban Sketching with Pen and Watercolor
17. Shari Blaukopf-  Bare bones: Exploring Limited Palettes in Watercolour
18. Wes Douglas – Urban Uglies: How to Make Beautiful Sketches Out of Those Areas Most People Overlook

Stay tuned, more details and registration information coming soon!

Know It All?

Urban Sketchers Chicago is excited to be hosting the 2017 Urban Sketchers 8th Annual Symposium. We'll be welcoming over 450 urban sketchers from around the world to meet, sketch, and share our city! As a teaser of all the sights in store for you next year, over the next few weeks, we'll be sharing some of our sketches (both new and old) of our beautiful, diverse, and exciting Chicago. 

Morning light in the alley

There's always something new to learn! I spent Saturday in Chicago's Ravenswood neighborhood at the workshop "FEARLESS Sketching in Pen, Ink and Watercolor with Adriana Gasparich."  What a fun day! The workshop was held in Ingrid Albrecht's studio in Ravenswood.

As an artist, no matter how much experince I have or how much I know (or think I know) there's always more to learn. That certainly was the case last Saturday. Thank you Adriana and Ingrid for an inspiring, friendly and encouraging day!

These sketches were done in a Stillman & Birn Zeta Series sketchbook.

Afternoon light 

I'm looking forward to the wealth of knowlege coming our way at the Symposium next summer!

CALL FOR PHOTOS!

Did you take pictures at the Chicago Sketch Seminar?  The USk Chicago Planning team is writing a series of blog posts recapping our Sketch Seminar weekend.  We want to see the Seminar from your perspective, thank our sponsors for their contributions, and show them the amazing work that each of you created.

Please send pictures of:

• you using sponsorship art materials or prizes
• sketches made with the sponsorship materials or prizes
• instructors demonstrating with sponsorship materials

Email your pictures to urbansketcherschicago@gmail.com with the subject line "Seminar Photos".  Tell us which products you used and what your impressions of them are.  If your photo(s) are used, you will be given credit.

Keep an eye out for blog posts coming in the the next month!

Sincerely,
USk Chicago Planning Team

A Note From the Correspondent

The USk Chicago Sketch Seminar is just around the corner!  In just 5 days, sketchers, artists, doodlers, architects, designers, creative types, both beginners and experts will gather in and around Palette and Chisel Academy of Fine Arts in Lincoln Park.  The Seminar weekend will comprise of 8 workshops and 4 sketching activities focused on teaching the art of urban sketching and related skill sets.   As the Seminar Correspondent I will document the Sketch Seminar through sketches, photographs and blog posts.  For those of you who are getting ready to attend the seminar and those who will be following the activities from around the world, here is a preview of what you can expect to see from me during the weekend:

Each workshop will take place within blocks of each other.  To help capture and document the activities and instruction at each workshop, I will ride my bike to and from each workshop;

sketching, photographing and posting what I see in real time to our Twitter, Instagram and Seminar Blog accounts.  USk Chicago’s accounts are: Twitter: @USk_Chicago, Instagram: @USkChicago and Pinterest: Urban Sketchers Chicago.
Make sure to follow these accounts to stay updated with the weekend's events.  If you want share your own photos or sketches, tag your posts with #USkChicago2014.  At the end of each day, check back with the Seminar Blog for a blog post re-cap of the day.

This is an exciting weekend for USk Chicago and the USk global community.  We are excited to see how we will grow as a chapter and to be able to show the city of Chicago one drawing at a time.  I look forward to documenting the Seminar and sharing my sketches, photographs and experiences with you all.  I hope you will check out our Twitter, Instagram, Pinterest and blog accounts and follow the events of the weekend.  Don’t be a stranger. Feel free to comment, ask questions and connect with the USk Chicago group.  Talk to everyone soon!  

Sincerely,
Andrew Banks