As one of my all-time favorite websites, UrbanSketchers consistently delivers a visual respite from daily life by allowing me to take a peek into artist’s lives through their art. The contributors all have an outstanding body of work, and my current favorites are Rob Carey, Tommy Kane (who also has a hysterical blog), Pete Scully, Thomas Thorspecken and Paul Heaston (whose architectural sketches are mind blowing in detail).
What is particularly fascinating to me is the occasional video in which you get to see the sketch in context – a little bit of a look into the surrounding geo location and if you’re lucky, a quick look at the artist at work. Here’s one of Rob Carey’s work:
And one of Tommy Kane in Cambodia – which has an added bonus of being a travel video as well as showing his resulting work!
I could spend hours just enjoying the various artist correspondents on UrbanSketchers – hope you join me!
As someone who can barely draw a stick figure, I am constantly amazed when a person can sit down and within minutes transform what is before them visually into a glorious representation. A friend recently turned me on to a site called Urban Sketchers, which is now not only bookmarked on my laptop, but one I visit daily to see what phenomenal new work has been posted.
Urban Sketchers is a non-profit organization dedicated to raising the artistic, storytelling and educational value of location drawing, promoting it’s practice and connecting people around the world who draw on location where they live and travel.
Much like HarmonyWishes’ goal which is to change the world one e-card at a time, Urban Sketchers mission is to show the world, one drawing at a time. It’s fascinating to see the growing body of work coming from invited artists around the world.
I encourage all of you to check them out and be inspired, transported to another place and to support yet another way of telling a story. If you have favorite art sites, let us know – we always have room for one more bookmark!
