Portland sketches revisit

These are the individual sketches for the long spread in my USK sketchbook from the recent Portland trip.

Global Sketchers

This is the group photo taken at the end of day 3 of the first Urban Sketching Symposium outside Pacific Northwest College of Art (PNCA) in Portland, Oregon. What a great assembly from all over the world.

Next year, the Symposium will go to Lisbon, Portugal!

Portland watercolour pieces

I am back from the most amazing 3-day Urban Sketching Symposium in Portland.

My sketches of Portland are on three different types of format. One is the regular moleskine (A6 size), the other one is the special USK moleskine (A5 size). Finally the long watercolour format (400x200mm). Here are the three watercolour sketches on the long format I did on each different day plus some photos taken at the Symposium.

More sketches and photos at my flickr.


Day 3 at Portland Farmers Market I did the Simon Benson House, Urban Colour group


Day 2 at Ire Keller Fountain, Urban Nature group


Day 1 at Cargo Store near PNCA, Urban Colour group


Day 1 to 3 on USK moleskine

first sketch in Portland

We heard so much about the story of food carts in Portland, so when Liz and I saw one after depositing our lugguages at the Mark Spencer Hotel, we sat comfortably at the corner of Burnside Street on 4th Avenue and started sketching. Lapin was sketching the classic car and Will, the owner of the car in the vicinity too.

photo of the presenters at the symposium

Before I am swamped with work in the office and before scanning my sketches of Portland, this is the picture of all the presenters (except Kurt Hollomon from PNCA) taken from Lapin's post at the recent first International Urban Sketching Symposium in Portland from 29 to 31 July 2010.

From left standing are : Simo, Jason, I, Isabel, Matt and Veronica.
From left sitting are : Gabi, Lapin and Frank Ching.

Meanwhile, you can visit the symposium website to find out more.