Introduce Yourself
Where do you live and what do you?
Have you done much sketching before or are you just starting?
What are your other creative pursuits?
Please include a link to your Flickr account, blog, Facebook page, Instagram, Tumblr etc.
So I’ll go first…
I’m Liz (I think you all know that!)
I live in Sydney, Australia. I’m an architect by profession and worked 20 years on a range of residential and commercial developments, specialising in media projects. I’ve always drawn as part of my work but in 2007 discovered watercolour and started my first daily sketchbook. I haven’t stopped sketching since!
I’m very interested in architectural history and theory and drinking tea out of fancy china teacups… but I’m guessing you all know that too!
You can find me on: Facebook, Flickr, Google+, Instagram and Twitter using the buttons under ‘Connect on Social Media’ in the footer of this website.
Now it’s your turn…
I am Ricardo from Paraty (Brazil). Yes, this is the beautiful place that hosted the 5th Urban Sketchers Symposium ! I am a graduate civil engineer but have been painting Watercolors professionaly for about 10 years. I look very much forward to Liz’s sketching course as a way to improve my own abilities. I am organizer and one of the participants of the local Urban Sketchers group. We get together every other Sunday morning to sketch around
Ricardo 2 days ago I’ve been at a conference here at Lisbon with André Baptista, João Catarino e Nelson Paciência. I think, maybe you have known them.
Good evening,
Roberto Stocco, from Milan, Italy. Currently living and working as a teacher in Manchester, UK. I have been drawing for a while after many years of distractions in different directions. Thank you to Liz for this stupendous opportunity. If anyone in the Northwest is interested in meeting please let me know. Ciao.
Roberto
I forgot to mark the box about being notified about comments. If anyone in the Portland area reads this and is interested in meeting to sketch together, please let a comment. My main note is above this one. :o)
Hi tallartist; there are about a half-dozen of us so far. I can’t find you above (missed it) but you can find me through flickr and my blog. My studio is in NW Portland. Sketching together would be fun; email is dbdcat@aol.com
Hi! My name is Cheryl.
I am a “tallartist” because I am 6’3″ tall! :o)
I live in Hillsboro, Oregon-a small town west of the larger cit of Portland, Oregon.
I have been drawing and attempting sketchbooks for about 5 years. I am a self taught artist. I had a desire to draw and create as a child yet it has only been the last few years to really let myself explore my desire. I like a quote by George Eliott that says “It is never too let to be what you might have been.” I am 65 years old and going to keep on seeking my creative soul. :o)
I first learned about Liz through Sketchbook Skool. I am eager to learn more from her classes. I want to learn how to be more expressive with my drawings-aiming to capture the moment without such a fuss about being “precise” and “perfect”.
I would love to connect with other sketchbook artists in Oregon and abroad.
Hi, I am Sabine, I am German, but living – for the moment – in Johannesburg, South Africa. I have been drawing for quite a while and I always take a sketchbook on our family trips, but when I come back home after a week, it is still mostly empty and so I sit down in front of the computer to write about and sketch all those things that we did and we saw from my photos. So – I really want to speed up my sketching, my dream would be to actually come home with a finished sketchbook that looks like Liz´ books- and that´s what I hope to learn in this class!