What is Urban Sketching? A Brief Overview....

I thought let's go back to the beginning and discuss what urban sketching is, where it came from, the benefits and how you can join in 💚
The books I mention in the video are:
The Art of Urban Sketching - amzn.to/3xDnTap
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Urban Sketching Handbook Series - amzn.to/3xiqI0F
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⭐️ FREE CLASS: Minimalist Sketching for Beginners
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🙌 Ebook bundle of over 100 of my travel sketches
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👉 Pretty Sketchy TV
On-demand travel & urban sketching tutorials in every style & technique you can think of!
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💃 Sketch Your Adventures online course
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🎨 Abstract Watercolour Backgrounds online course
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✌️ FREE Guides
Practical Beginners Guide to Urban Sketching:
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An Urban Sketchers Guide to People Sketching:
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Beginners Guide to Perspective for Urban Sketchers:
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[@tarias_sketchy_adventures]

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[@eileengoldenberg270]

Great overview! I agree on so many points. I do most of the sketchwalks here in San Francisco on Saturdays and also started a group on Thursdays.. we have over 4600 people in our SF Bay Area group. My challenge is finding new and interesting locations every Sat and Thurs and almost every other day for myself. SF is very sketch able with bridges, boats, Victorians, parks, etc. Cafe sketching is great when Karla the fog rolls in.. I will be teaching in Buenos Aires at the symposium this year. I am sure we will see each other. It was great to meet you in Auckland last year. I tell beginners the key is PRACTICE!!! Draw everyday.. that is how your work will evolve. Eileen

[@OkieSketcher1949]

I’ve been told urban sketching is relatively new. I guess that depends on how one defines relatively. I started out early in my eighth grade year in school (around 1961 or 1962). Been doing it off and on ever since. You are correct as far as I am thinking in that it isn’t just ‘urban’ although I did start in my hometown. We had many older buildings that had advertisements painted on their outside walls as far back as before the start of the twentieth century. Most of those I will admit were hard to see due to the effects of aging. But if you looked hard enough you could still see what used to be very bright and flashy. I moved on to more rural scenes as soon as I had a bicycle and the ability to get out of town. I will agree my works then would today be called landscapes, but I did try to put something more than trees in my works. Eventually, I got to sketching the oil and gas fields and the equipment one finds there. Somewhere along the way I incorporated dip pens and India ink. After high school I slacked off in that I was in the Army and sketchbooks just did not fit too well with the uniforms and equipment, but I did sketch when I could. After the Army I returned to the oil fields and I brought my sketch books. Color started to enter my work. At first colored pencils were my main sources of color. Then I rediscovered watercolors and an entire new world seemed to open up. Today I use pencils, fountain pens, fine tipped markers, colored pencils and, of course, water colors. I watch videos such as yours for pointers and tips. It is a lot of fun, gets me outside, lets me record vacation trips in a more meaningful way than just photographs, and overall helps me to just relax. In short, Urban Sketching is not new and is not strictly urban.

[@maisycakes1125]

Loved this video - Thankyouso much 🤗

[@bernarddonnelly2041]

Don't forget your own wonderful book "The Beginners Guide to Urban Sketching" for those who are new (and not so new) to the genre

[@rick72035]

Love your videos.

[@justinespeers6763]

Great video, thanks for your insight!!

[@atcreateartworks]

Excellent overview & very interesting history. 👏 I had a general sense of urbane sketching and I’ve always used it in exchange for plein air drawing too but wasn’t sure if that was technically accurate. Now it’s much clearer. Thank you for sharing 🫶🏼

[@ColdPrairieStudio]

Great video. You always introduce me to new books and artists. Thank you!

[@Yorky222]

An excellent overview of the Urban Sketching world Taria.

[@outofmymindart]

I am forever grateful I read your email that day about Auckland and made the snap decision to take a trip to follow a style of art I had barely touched before. The people and experiences it has brought into my life have been amazing. Buenos Aires is going to be a blast.