Waiting for coffee time

The sky is washed out for some reason on thhis scan.

Pear

A friend brought me in a bag of pears from her garden. It was so good ( i usually don't like the texture) and so tough to stop and sketch when i wanted to eat it.

Water for Sudan benefit

I drew this last Friday night while waiting for the benefit show to start. This Other Life (thisotherlife.us )and Left on Red (http://www.leftonredmusic.com/) played at a church to raise money for the Water for Sudan organization. They are a local not for profit who's "mission is simple: drill borehole wells which bring safe drinking water to the people in South Sudan's remote villages, transforming lives in the process. " check out their website for more info http://www.waterforsudan.org/mission/

It was such a good night. Awesome music, great company, sketching and doing for others. Need i saw more...

found sketches from Portugal

I found these small sketches from Portugal in the pocket of my sketchbook. A few times i went out wiht just a small bag which i put some folded paper in. You know a girl cannot leave the house (or hotel) without paper and a pen. :) So here they are. One from dinner out, one from a lunch stop at a wonderful cafe in Sintra and the last done during a Fado dinner show.
It's crazy how looking at a sketch can transport you back to a moment so quickly.

Waiting for dinner

Over the weekend I had dinner with friend and family. Luckily ( I never thought I would say luckily about this) there was an hour wait. So we got to sit outside by the water, have good conversations AND i got to sketch. Which was followed by a good dinner and ice cream.

Does it get any better?????

So here was the sketch. Not sure I am done with it but I figured I'd post in case I can't get back to it.

Drawn with Noodlers Flex pen and Noodlers Polar Brown Ink

South Wedge Market results

We had a sketchcrawl at the South Wedge Farmers Market on the 4th. It was the second of 2 events coordinated with the market.

We had a great time drawing, chatting with the passers and recruiting people to join our band of merry sketchers.

These things are so great. I love that we can get the creative word out there. One by one I think we can get everyone out there sketching and truly seeing the world around us. At least that's what I hope. :)


The highlight of the night for me was meeting the newest sketchcrawl member... see the sketch below. :)

II International Urban Sketching Symposium- Lisbon

I cannot begin to describe what a fantastic experience i had at the Urban Sketching Symposium in Lisbon. I had the opportunity to meet so many amazing people from all over the globe. All of us sharing the same passion for capturing the world around us.

I got to see so many different styles of sketching, learn new techniques not only from the workshops but from the artists around me.

One of my favorite things was being able to see other peoples sketch books. Throughout the workshops and lectures and down time people swap sketchbooks. The amount of inspiration i got from that is immeasurable.

Well, as you can tell i loved everything about it and I haven't even talked about how beautiful the city was.

So, here are my sketches from the first few workshops. There is a following post with the remaining workshops sketches as well as the one i worked on during the 32nd World Wide SketchCrawl.
-Enjoy

II International Urban Sketching Symposium- Lisbon

These are the skecthes from ths last two workshops and the 32nd World Wide Sketchcrawl which coincided with the last day of the symposium.
It was so amazing to have nearly 300 people all drawing in the same place.

Urban Sketching Symposium

I just returned from Portugal where I attended the three day Urban Sketching Symposium (http://symposium.urbansketchers.org/) which culminated with the 32nd World Wide SketchCrawl. There were approximately 300 people sketching and painting in the Praco do Commercio. The energy that surrounds a group of people (large or small) who share the same passion for creating is infectious and inspiring.

I had the opportunity to meet so many wonderful and talented people. People I have followed online and people I will now follow. Seeing their sketchbooks in person is awesome. It was such an amazing experience. I got to see so many different styles of sketching and pick up new techniques that i cannot wait to try out.


If you get the opportunity to attend next year you should!! I hope to :)

Having just returned from the trip i am not yet unpacked. I plan to share sketches from the symposium over the next few days.

For now Check out the USK Lisbon site http://symposium.urbansketchers.org/ for other peoples' sketches, photos and videos.

Happy sketching,
Genine

Catch up...

It's been a while since i've posted. I have been sketching but haven't had so much as a moment to scan. Here are a few. My plan is to post on a more regualr basis.. Here we go :)

Rochester SketchCrawl

We had a sketchcrawl here in Rochester yesterday. This is one of my pages.

The Berkshires

Took a quick trip to the Berkshires aA few weekends ago. This is a page of random sketches.

Rochester Public Market

a quick sketch at the public market. painted the next day at home. And the back of a few people at church.

Java's SketchOut

Lately i have been copying a sketch a few times to try out different things. This is one of those times. Depending on time i may do another. This was the result of the first weekly SketchOut. Turn out was slim... ok really it was me but i am hopeful.
Going to do another next week. This time there will also be great music.
Either way at least it's a block of time set aside for sketching.

more details on the sketchout here.. http://rochestersketchcrawl.blogspot.com/

random sketches

Some random sketches from the other night. Seems i am doing alot of that lately.

Sketching at Jemnetat

I met a friend to sketch on Wednesday night at a cafe / gallery/ shop. They have a large range of African art and jewelry. It is a great place to crab a coffee and sketch. But, I got hungry before I could add color so I went home ate and then copied my sketch a few times to play with color, hatching etc. Shown are the original sketch and two of the one I experimented with.

Hanging out on a Sunday evening

Saturday evening with friends

Hanging out wih some great firends on a saturday night. Eating chili, chatting and a bit of sketching.
Life is good.

Rochester Sketchcrawl results

We had the first Rochester Sketchcrawl of the year and a GREAT turn out. (This would explain the lack of sketches. ) There were quite a few new "crawlers" who met us at the conservatory. I always forget how great it is in there. It's like a little summer when you need it most.

So below are a few sketches. Switching mediums every sketch which is usual for a sketchcrawl.

The littlest things

You know how every once in a while you do a sketch and it's one you really like? Well this is not much of a sketch in the sense of size , detail etc. But this is one of those sketches....

I was at friends house helping out with her son's project and did this quick while he worked.

lecture sketch

Boulder Coffee

and a bit of sketching.....

Back in Cooperstown

Back again at Betty and Wilbur Davis State Park. They have beautiful log cabins in the woods. #5 has a great view!

10.16.10-2

I stopped to sketch on the way to Meg's show tonight. The trees in the darkness caught my eye. I added the color when i got home that night.

Still using the new Hero M86

10.16.10

Looking out the window in the morning while waiting for the coffee to finish perking....

Playing with the new pen again and with the red onion that's now starts to sprout.

Below is a random little sketch while I was waiting. As I wrote I LOVE the Quin Gold. The scan does not do it justice at all!!

08 October 2010- There's no place like Gnome...

We've got this gnome in the den. He just hangs out in the corner and was begging to be drawn. I didn't have all the lights on which is why he has a stump for on arm. I didn't know you could actually see his hand.
Oh, also tested out my new Hero M86 pen on this and the next bunch of sketches. The more i use it the more i like it. you get such a variety of line widths from one pen. This is what the pen looks like.

03 October 2010 at the First Unitarian Church

Home again

random sketch

Garage Sale

14 September 2010 Java's

12 September 2010

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Last night at Java Joes

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a few sketches from the other day

05September2010- my brother

My brother and freidns were up visting for the holiday weekend...this is an attempt to get him om paper. He moved in the first one so the out line was all i got. The second i just used the brush and paint

Rochester Sketchcrawl

Two of my sketches form the Rochester SketchCrawl back on August 14th.
We were down at Genesee Valley Park near the boat house, which i had to sketch. The othe is art of Bob, who was sitting in the grass next to me.

First Friday Rochester

These are a few of my sketches from the First Firday event at ROCO. Check out the Rocheter Sketchcrawl blog for more info and photos from the night.
( rochestersketchcrawl.blogspot.com )