Drawing in Cornwall over Easter

Sketching out and about in Padstow, North Cornwall. Busy harbour...lots to draw!

Urban Sketchers Manchester draw at Chorlton's Big Green Happening

Urban Sketchers Manchester were invited to sketch at the 'Big Green Happening' festival in Manchester yesterday. It was at St Clement's church, which is in Chorlton - a leafy cosmopolitan south Manchester suburb, and the event was about promoting sustainability and a greener way of life. Lots of really interesting eco-businness in attendance including quirky craft stalls, delicatessens, vegan food, craft beer, organic wines, bicycle repairs and ethical fashion…and as the website says the event was promoting...'campaigners, makers, doers, growers, educators and builders'. It was a really friendly family orientated event...how nice on a lovely spring afternoon which was perfect urban sketching weather! 

Here's my drawing from the afternoon (too much talking...much of it about urban sketching rather than drawing in my case!) and also a photograph of us with our finished drawings in the sunshine.

Tate Liverpool summer school

Here is a link to the Tate Liverpool summer school I am thrilled to be leading in July. Theme is (unsurprisingly!) 'drawing the city'. It coincides with the Nasreen Mohemedi and Modrian exhibitions and will include gallery talks and visits. The morning will be based at the Tate and the afternoons will be spent out on sketchcrawls around the city. http://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-liverpool/courses-and-workshops/drawing-city

As a companion event Urban Sketchers Manchester will be partaking in the 44th Worldwide SketchCrawl on Saturday July 12th and visiting Liverpool, starting outside the Tate at 11am. Full details and itinerary to be published in due course.

Update

A belated blog post. Not sure where the time goes, it's been a hectic few weeks. Anyway delighted to say that the Urban Sketchers Manchester blog has been launched which has been taking up some of my time. You can find it here http://urbansketchers-manchester.blogspot.co.uk/ Also here is an illustration I recently did for Creative Tourist www.creativetourist.com to accompany an article on Manchester Cathedral.

Urban Sketchers Manchester at Manchester City Art Gallery

Urban Sketchers Manchester next meeting

BBC R4 Interview on Saturday 25th January

I will be talking about urban sketching on Radio 4's 'Saturday Live' this Saturday (25th January at 10am). James Hobbs who established Urban Sketchers London will be in the London studio and I will be at Media City's BBC North. Saturday also coincides with the 42nd Worldwide SketchCrawl and Manchester is participating for the first time. I am of course extremely nervous but will do my best to talk about sketching on location...I will then have to hot foot it to Manchester city centre as I will have missed the start of our Manchester Urban Sketching group's SketchCrawl No1. We're drawing from Victoria Station to Piccadilly Gardens. See the poster I have previously posted for more information but anyone is welcome to join us for all or part of the day.

Latest Urban Sketchers blog

http://www.urbansketchers.org/2013/10/manchester-urban-sketching-group-visit.html

Cornish sketches

Just back from north Cornwall. Here are a couple of my favorite sketches from the last week. The first is of the main harbour in Padstow and the second of Polzeath, which has a big surfing community and currently where our Prime Minister is on holiday!

Just posted on the Urban Sketchers blog

http://bcn2013.urbansketchers.org/