Urban Sketchers Symposium 2010: Portland, Oregon, USA

A friend helped me bind a journal for my upcoming trip to England. I filled it with Fabriano #140 lb.soft press watercolor paper. I think  This is great paper for journals as it is smooth eno...

http://pdx2010.urbansketchers.org/2014/04/journal-for-trip-to-uk.html

Coffee shop.

http://pdx2010.urbansketchers.org/2012/01/people.html

Another view of the Montlake Bridge from one of the walkways that border the Montlake Cut as well as a view looking toward the University Bridge and I-5 from Montlake Park. As Gail has alread...

http://pdx2010.urbansketchers.org/2011/06/another-view-of-montlake-bridge-from.html

Click here for an article in a Memphis newspaper about the new Urban Sketchers Memphis .

http://pdx2010.urbansketchers.org/2010/11/spreading-good-word-about-sketching.html

The crisp autumn air these days reminds me of the fresh chilly morning in Portland, USA. These are some sketches from the rest of sessions that I attended. Urban Nature In the session by Jas...

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© Sue Van Etten Three members of the Whidbey Island Sketchers participated in the Portland symposium this summer.  We're just sure that our new-found and better-honed sketching s...

http://pdx2010.urbansketchers.org/2010/10/from-symposium-to-group-show.html

The symposium was the apex of a very busy summer. It's taken until now to scan sketches done during and since the sketchers feast. And I'm definitely still digesting. It was a wonderfully enrichi...

http://pdx2010.urbansketchers.org/2010/09/symposium-aftermath.html

The Portland Urban Sketchers have been meeting regularly and in larger numbers after the momentum of the Symposium. Here is my sketch from our meet up at the White Eagle Hotel and Cafe (eastside ...

http://pdx2010.urbansketchers.org/2010/09/portlanders-still-sketching-regularly.html

I was so inspired by the experience of sketching with a group while at the Urban Sketchers Symposium in Portland that I came home and started a group in Memphis. Today was our first group sketch ...

http://pdx2010.urbansketchers.org/2010/09/memphis-urban-sketchers.html

I arrived in portland the day before the symposium, and once out of the train, we went to china town with tia, her husband albert, liz and borromini. I wanted to warm up with an american classi...

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I finally managed to post some of my sketches from Portland! It was such an amazing experience to spend time with other sketchers, meet some of the fellow correspondents in real life, and expl...

http://pdx2010.urbansketchers.org/2010/08/portland-sketches.html

Urban Line In this session by Frank Ching, we went to the riverside and I drew Steel Bridge. It was a really unique bridge. The middle of lower part of the bridge is movable: A vertical-lift b...

http://pdx2010.urbansketchers.org/2010/08/my-results-from-urban-line-session.html

I was assigned to lead two sessions of "Urban Color" for the Symposium. No problem, I love color! But I was keen to come up with something more challenging and enriching than "let's all go out an...

http://pdx2010.urbansketchers.org/2010/08/urban-color-games.html

Almost a month after the Symposium....and I am still harboring images and thoughts about all the people and sketches that filled those three memorable days. Thank you all for posting your comment...

http://pdx2010.urbansketchers.org/2010/08/addendum-tanner-springs-and-more.html

I think everyone at the Symposium was involved in at least one field sketching session that went to Tanner Springs Park . And why not? It's near the school, and it offers a real slice of (simulat...

http://pdx2010.urbansketchers.org/2010/08/struggling-with-tanner-springs-and.html

  You'll find my 2-part post on either my Painted Cats Blog  or the Urban Sketchers Portland  blog. This event was such a wonderful experience. I am STILL having dreams featuring random Urban ...

http://pdx2010.urbansketchers.org/2010/08/me-too-ive-finally-composed-blog-post.html

The Symposium was pure magic. Huge thanks to all involved. I'm planning to have a couple of more focused posts after this one, but here's everything that didn't fit into those. I did a sketch o...

http://pdx2010.urbansketchers.org/2010/08/jason-das-finally-gets-around-to.html

I meant to ask, did others tend to lose things in Portland? In my excitement, I seemed to just walk away from things. First I lost my sunglasses which I bought especially for the trip. I found t...

http://pdx2010.urbansketchers.org/2010/08/lost-and-found.html

I've enjoyed Portland so much. The city and all the people I've met there. I'm with no scanner and slow connection here, but I upload my version of the famous bridges. It has been worthwhile ...

http://pdx2010.urbansketchers.org/2010/08/portland-bridges.html

I just want to take a moment here to thank the people who really made the Symposium a fabulous event: the participants. You were the ones who made it all possible. Without you, there wouldn't...

http://pdx2010.urbansketchers.org/2010/08/thank-you.html

It's been almost 2 weeks since I returned from Portland and only now am I finding my way back to joining in with our wonderful online community by scanning, uploading and posting some images from...

http://pdx2010.urbansketchers.org/2010/08/hijacked-by-toothache.html

Attending the 1st Intl Urban Sketchers Symposium was a wonderful experience. Many times, what I learn at a workshop takes awhile to work its way into my right brain. I think that Frank Ching, T...

http://pdx2010.urbansketchers.org/2010/08/learning-takes-time.html

Like all the others, I'm very lucky to have been in Portlans for the symposium. It was a reel happiness to meet all these enthusiasts of the sketch, Gabi, Franck, Tia, Jason, Pete, Kumi, Ve...

http://pdx2010.urbansketchers.org/2010/08/moleskine.html

Wow, time to start reporting about this amazing experience! As I was on the plane back from Portland to Sacramento, my brain was racing around with thoughts and ideas, my pen busy scribbli...

http://pdx2010.urbansketchers.org/2010/08/keep-on-sketching.html

Hi sketchers! How's everybody doing? I'm still having post symposium blues. How about you? My therapy so far has been to look at the work posted here and on the Symposium flickr group . Thanks ...

http://pdx2010.urbansketchers.org/2010/08/symposium-flickr-collection.html