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SF Sketchers is an umbrella group, listing sketching events throughout the San Francisco Bay Area. Meetups are free and open to everyone, regardless of experience or skill.
We post for a wide range of groups, mostly following the UrbanSketchers.org model, but also including portrait parties, nature journaling and other kinds of sketching activities. In a typical meetup people get together briefly at the beginning, spread out to sketch in the area and meet up again at the end to share sketches and chat. There is a "no criticism" rule and people tend to be kind to each other.
We are sponsored by Arch Art Supplies, one of the vanishingly few independent art supply stores left in the Bay Area. They specialize in supplies that sketchers use, from old standards to cool new stuff from all over the world. Give them a visit!
Because our Meetup fees are paid by Arch, all events listed on the site are free. However we send out a quarterly newsletter listing classes and other fee-based events led by members.
Looking forward to sketching with you!
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Chinese New Year Parade
Uno Dos Tacos, 595 Market St, San Francisco, CA, USIt will be the year of the Horse, and San Francisco has the biggest Lunar New Year Parade outside of Asia to launch it. We'll be sketching in the staging area while all the parade people are standing around the floats getting ready before they march. The parade goes ahead even if it rains, and there are plenty of store overhangs for sketchers to shelter under.
3:45 Meet on the steps outside Uno Dos Tacos, on Stevenson Street at 2nd.
4:00 Stroll around the staging area (south on Second St. and east on Market) and sketch until the parade gets underway at 5:15.
5:45 Meet up at the steps outside Uno Dos Tacos again to share sketches and chat. (If anyone knows of a quieter place to meet up afterwards, please post in the Comments!)OPTIONAL EXTRA If you want to watch the whole parade after looking at everybody's sketches, you can dash one block over to Kearny Street and catch the parade when it doubles back. (See the parade route here. )
Read more info about San Francisco's Lunar New Year festivities at [chineseparade.com](Read more info about San Francisco's Lunar New Year festivities at http://www.chineseparade.com/)
BRING
• Something to sit on, like a folding stool.
• Warm clothes, hat and gloves.
• Bring your fluorescent paints and gold markers to capture the full technicolor effects of the costumes and floats.GETTING THERE
Montgomery is the closest Bart/Muni station. Parking will be really really scarce, so take public transit if possible. Remember that much of Market and Kearny Streets will be closed to traffic, disrupting the usual bus routes, so better to take underground transit if possible. More info about parking and transit options here.LINKS
See sketches from previous our Chinese New Year events:
https://www.meetup.com/sf-sketchers/photos/32044105/
https://www.meetup.com/SF-Sketchers/photos/29726133/
https://www.meetup.com/SF-Sketchers/photos/26758778/
https://www.meetup.com/SF-Sketchers/photos/26146181/
https://www.meetup.com/SF-Sketchers/photos/25917133/
https://www.meetup.com/sf-sketchers/photos/35159037/– Sketch by Laurie Wigham
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