Urban Sketching Barton Center

Plein Air NEK is branching out. Last week Nature Journaling and this week Urban Sketching. As part of a world wide effort, Urban Sketchers, or USk, is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization incorporated in the state of Washington, USA, supporting and representing a grassroots community of sketchers. To find out more about Urban sketching see https://urbansketchers.org/who-we-are/#manifesto

This Saturday we will gather at the gazebo at the center of Barton Village and to draw on location, indoors or out, capturing what the sketcher sees from direct observation. Urban sketchers use any kind of media to tell the story of their surroundings, the places they live, and where they travel.

While there is some overlap between plein-air and urban sketching, the former tends to focus on the aesthetic outcome of the finished piece, whereas the latter’s primary goal is on storytelling, witnessing, and recording, using any medium, indoors and out.