The 4th Urban Sketchers Symposium is being held 11 to 13 July in the city of Barcelona this year.
And I am going !!
The Urban Sketching Symposium (USK) is a three-day workshop at which artists from around the world meet to draw and learn together in the host city. It includes field sketching sessions, lectures, panels, exhibits and artists demo
Three months to go …
For me, (I work as a Researcher in my day job) the preparation for a holiday is an exciting and important part of the adventure. Yesterday, I borrowed some travel books from the local library. I am only in Barcelona for a short time and I imagine that I will be swept away by the workshops and meeting so many people .However I wanted to look at books and maps of where we will be out and about sketching and staying and read up the city.
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| The planning begins |
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| I don’t actually look the drawing I have made of my new look. No one would recognise me from this, but the haircuts look like that – you get the idea |
However, the majority of my holiday is in London, so I also borrowed lovely books on London to read. I have been there a few times and love it, but it is so exciting to borrow the books and to start reading them. It feels like the holiday has already begun. I already have a bit of idea of what I want to do in London and I hope to even meet up with some UK sketchers. Of course, I will be sketching my entire holiday continuously in my sketchbook journal.
I am reading Danny Gregory’s “Illustrated Journal” for further inspiration (as if that was needed!!) and looking back at my recent Sketchbook Project “Paris 2007” as well.
I am reading Danny Gregory’s “Illustrated Journal” for further inspiration (as if that was needed!!) and looking back at my recent Sketchbook Project “Paris 2007” as well.
Last Monday three sketching friends & I stayed up til midnight Australian time to register in the USK workshops in Barcelona. We then spent half n hour on the phone to each other on a high of excitement
The workshops were full in two hours and registration closed. I am sorry that people missed out. It is obviously becoming a more well-known and sought after event each year. For those that will be there – I am really looking forward to meetng you.
Attending this Urban Sketchers Symposium has special meaning for me as I had booked and planned to go the 2nd Urban Sketching Symposium in Lisbon in 2011.
I then got very sick and had to cancel (see my hospital stay drawings in the tab above or the full set on flickr) .However, I was honoured and overwhelmed when on her return from Lisbon, Liz Steel presented me with a mini Moleskine she had organised . It was filled with sketches made on location by many of the participants and instructors – these people I want to meet and thank. You can look through the whole sketchbook and the lovely flickr comments I received. I get teary when I look at it.
I then got very sick and had to cancel (see my hospital stay drawings in the tab above or the full set on flickr) .However, I was honoured and overwhelmed when on her return from Lisbon, Liz Steel presented me with a mini Moleskine she had organised . It was filled with sketches made on location by many of the participants and instructors – these people I want to meet and thank. You can look through the whole sketchbook and the lovely flickr comments I received. I get teary when I look at it.
But looking forward to this year, already we have had a few discussions , with hints and tips from Liz (as a seasoned Symposium attendee and instructor) to Chris & I about how approach the days and make the most of our time there. And we have been asking her plenty of questions. The most difficult part of the Urban Sketching Symposium will be now to meet so many people in just the short space of time!
I can’t even tell you how excited I am for you guys!!!! 🙂
Thanks Jodi! It is very exciting and I hope to be able to share this with everyone along the way.