r/urbansketching

Hi all—

Made it a full week of sketching so far!

Today I returned to Minnehaha Creek, which is much higher than a week ago. I decided to go a ways down the trail, and landed on the 2nd? 3rd? Bridge.

Though the light changed dramatically from start to finish, I think I’ve got the general feeling of the area.

1.5h on this one; so many leaves!

Open to location suggestions for the next one :)

I'm learning how to make quick sketches.

Hi all!

Day 6 of sketching!

It’s a little chilly out today, definitely a little wet, but a desire to keep the momentum persisted.

So! I made it to white sand beach, after riding around the parkway, taking a brief trip into St. Paul, back over the Franklin bridge, and finally settling on the unmarked but promising looking stairs going down towards the river.

Not too populous out today — so the sketch remains with me. Still trying to figure out prints for those interested, too :)

Thanks for looking!

Santorini looked like a town in school uniform. White walls, blue domes, narrow lanes, all standing neatly under the Mediterranean sun. While sketching in Oia, I noticed the beauty was not symmetry but small imperfections. Tilted buildings, uneven steps, fading shadows, and bougainvillea spilling quietly across the cliffs

Painted this for my father-in-law’s birthday.
Approx 5”x 7”

Guggenheim by F.L.Wright

Hi all!

Decided to give the lock and dam a visit today. Spent about an hour and a quarter on a sketch today, mostly without other people anywhere to be found.

Alas, just as I was wrapping up a group of people came through and the sketch could be handed off to someone else enjoying the view!

Apologies for cutting off the left side in the photo— the wind kept trying to take the paper from me.

Back to pen/ink today :)

А4 / plein air sketch.

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Day 4!

Quick (45m?) sketch of lake Nokomis from little beach while kiddos were playing. Handed this one off to a family with a little one who were playing at the same time.

Thanks for looking :)

Hi there—

I met a few parents and kids while sketching this afternoon and one girl asked if she could keep the drawing.

I said she could when it was done, but her and her mom headed out before then. Just in case they (or their parents) visit Reddit Minneapolis, here’s the final drawing!

I ended up giving the physical sketch to Otis who was fishing around the creek the whole time— maybe next time I’ll hand it off to you!

Each month of last year I painted the same view of this rowing club - I thought it would show me how much my art would improve but it taught me that I already had an innate way of creating.

I thought some of you might enjoy this full image of them all together - I also wrote about the year-long challenge in a substack post

Another warm, sunny, spring day in the city!

Back out and around I went to keep up with a sketch a day.

Minnehaha falls and along the parkway have so many beautiful nooks and views. I think I’ll try a few more days there — open to suggestions on places around the falls / Mississippi River / Nokomis areas!

Didn’t get to give this one away just yet; had to head out before completion this time. Anywho, here’s my quick take on the Minnehaha Depot.

I had my very first trip to a Warhammer store, and the guy working there immediately tried to talk me into painting a mini. It was kind of funnyXD

Other than that, we climbed a tower that day—which was super high and terrifying, but beautiful—and ate some really delicious dumplings🤤✨ Aaand we wrapped up the day by sitting by the river and doing some sketching. It was solo tedious to line the tower this time.

Maybe the trip and all that walking is catching up to me and I am starting to work slow0-0

Today was the first day we really spent wandering around Prague✨ Of course, we hit the 'basic' sights like the Astronomical Clock and Charles Bridge. We checked out some stores—I obviously had to pick up some art supplies—and took plenty of breaks in different spots. That’s why I wanted to capture the pause spots of the day: the TV Tower, the Dancing House and a beautiful Gothic church.

​To draw the TV Tower, my boyfriend dragged me up a hill (the plan was just to find a park with somewhere to sit and sketch, but the first park turned out to be a closed cemetery, so we somehow ended up on this hill with a great view of the towerXD).

​Also, I was lining the sketch so late at night that I somehow missed a whole level of the tower. I had to draw it in at the very end when everything was already finishedXD