Urban sketching is the practice of drawing the world around you, even if it’s the world you’re used to seeing all the time. You can learn to see, appreciate and render the world you live in with the ...

Some travelers are picking up a creative pastime, sketching, in order to slow down and fully appreciate their destinations. “Urban sketching has completely changed the way I travel around the world,” ...

Sally Black carries a sketch book and a small case of watercolour pencils in her handbag at all times. She's just one member of an online global community, Urban Sketchers. The group was formed in ...

Apple is offering a series of "sketch walks" hosted by well-known artists to celebrate the 10th anniversary of Urban Sketchers, a global community of artists that are dedicated to on-location drawing.

Many travellers snap pictures during their trips, but others find that slowing down to illustrate a place helps them appreciate it in a more meaningful way. Back in the 1800s, French artists like ...

Each week, somewhere in Brisbane a group of people armed with sketch books, tablets and water colours sit together and capture two hours of city life. These urban sketchers are custodians of the ...

Great landscape art can take you into a world: the majestic hills of Georgia O'Keeffe's Southwestern sublime; the pastoral calm of Monet's water lilies. But for years now, groups of amateurs have been ...

It’s a common image: an artist standing at an easel in a city square. The artist wears a beret and striped shirt. He aims his thumb at an object to approximate its angle. He assertively mixes colors ...

Bent over their sketchbooks, a group of art lovers in a public park in the heart of Chennai, India, are busy rendering their surroundings. Their subjects are varied, and they work with any number of ...

A splash of red here, a dab of white there, some fine lines in black, followed by a sweep of yellow…. At the end of two-and-a-half hours, the watercolours on the white paper take on the shape of the ...