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…
Hi I’m Mel from Melbourne, Australia.
I just started sketching and drawing at the start of the year after signing up for a one day watercolour workshop on a whim. From there I found Liz’s blog and Sketchbook Skool and have been having a great time. I’m a writer by trade so nice to have a new creative thing that’s just for fun again! Looking forward to the next twelve months hanging out and learning with everyone.
Hi Mel, There are a few of us from Melbourne here. Nice to meet you. Sketchbook Skool seems to be very popular; I must look it up. Cheers, Sandi
Hello, everyone:
My name is Marion, and I live outside Toronto, Canada. I created a lot of art when I was much younger, but only in the last year have I taken it up again. I started sketching (with some measure of consistency) this past spring in preparation for keeping an illustrated travel journal for a trip I was taking to Italy in the summer. Now long back from the trip, I am hooked on sketching. I am inhaling books, courses, blogs, and anything I can get my hands on, related to sketching, especially travel sketching.
I take classes on watercolour and acrylic painting, but often can’t wait to get to my sketchbook. I started a blog about a year ago that has a lot of my art, as well as some pieces by friends of mine. If you’d like to stop by and leave some words of encouragement, the blog is at http://artwewonderful.com/.
Hi everyone,
I’m as excited as all of you to be part of this group. I live in Sunnyvale, California, USA. I see that there are others in the group who live in the general area. So perhaps we can get together to sketch at some point during the class. I’m a member of Sketchcrawl.com and had a small group who sketched monthly in the South San Francisco Bay area. You can view our efforts here
http://sketchcrawlsv.blogspot.com
Hi Carmela – If you ever get up to San Francisco you’re welcome to join the SF Sketchers meetups. http://www.meetup.com/SF-Sketchers/
Also, John Muir Laws’ Nature Journal Club has monthly field trips all over the bay area, and once a month a field journaling class in Santa Clara and San Mateo. For more info, see http://www.johnmuirlaws.com/events and https://www.facebook.com/groups/naturejournalclub/
Thanks for the info Laurie. I’m unlikely to make it to SF, but I’ll check out the John Muir Laws link. I’m interested in drawing nature–so may be able to join you. Between Sketchcrawl, Meetup and UrbanSketchers, there is a lot happening in the Bay area. Lucky us!
Yes, we are very lucky.
Well, I pressed submit to fast :).
My name is Yana and i live in San Diegom CA. Very excited to attend the class.
Looking forward to meeting you all.
Hi,
my name is Ya