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sketching the urban sketchers (part 2)
More attempts at quick portraits of some world-renowned urban sketchers at the Lisbon Symposium… (Above left): Miguel Herranz, aka Freekhand, Urban Sketchers correspondent in Barcelona whose...
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lisbon symposium, day 2: light of lisboa
The afternoon workshop on day two was “Light of Lisboa”, led by Matthew Brehm. This workshop, located in the largos and ruas north of Rossio, was great, and the exercises Matt gave us – making quick...
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come out, come out, wherever you are…
The Fire Hydrants of Lisbon. You can just imagine how excited I was when I saw that they had them there, and that they didn’t all look the same. Some of them are rather Grecian-urn, others are more...
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the lisbon streets at night
Night-time sketching is fun, as the light is all different and in summertime in Lisbon, people are out on the streets enjoying life, or sketching the world. Right below the Shiado hostel on Rua...
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keeping an eye on the world outside my window
In Lisbon I stayed at the Shiado Hostel on Rua Anchietta, a stone’s throw away from the symposium location at FBAUL. It was a nice hostel, modern and inexpensive with free wireless internet access and...
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lisbon symposium, day 3: contrastes
The third and final day of the Urban Sketching Symposium was a gloriously sunny morning (weren’t they all?), and after meeting at FBAUL to talk about our experiences so far, we set out on our final...
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sketching the urban sketchers (part 3)
Final batch of Urban Sketcher portraits…I wish I’d sketched more! Quite a lot of people who afterwards I was thinking, oh wish I’d sketched him, wish I drawn her; maybe next time! The two above though...
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lisbon symposium, day 3: worldwide sketchcrawl #32
The final afternoon of the Lisbon Urban Sketching Symposium was the 32nd Worldwide Sketchcrawl. For those of you who know, the worldwide sketchcrawl (see sketchcrawl.com) was started about seven years...
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a little more lisboa
Views like this just exist to make people feel jealous, I think. Certainly more scenic than Davis! This was sketched on the second evening of the Symposium, from the square outside FBAUL, Lisbon, as...
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a city full of urban sketchers
Wow, it has been three months since Lisbon! It’s quite incredible. The second Urban Sketching Symposium was an overwhelming experience, and it was so much fun to spend good sketching time with so many...
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