Paris. Looking for a car to draw, Sylvain Cnudde and I came across this cute Ape Vespa Piaggio 1978 at Rue Jourdain, XXieme. The owners "La fee en bulle" run a confiture artisanale business. Delicious ! #urbansketching #urbansketchers #sketchbook

Paris, XXe arrondissement. Drawing alongside Sylvain Cnudde . The bar on whose terrace we were sitting closed at 18h, so we went on to look out for a car to sketch ... ' #urbansketching #urbansketchers #uskparis #travelsketch #sketchbook

Toulouse Sketches - some portrait sketches. Dan Archer, Mauro Doro, Nicola Maier-Reimer, Sketchermax & @petescully.bsky.social #usktoulouse2026 #usktoulouse #urbansketchers #urbansketching #portraitdrawing

14tn International Urban Sketchers Symposium 2026, July, 16-19 in Toulouse,  Taking part as an independent sketcher this time. Meeting fellow sketchers from around the world. Exchanging ideas sketching together and having fun… Great event, great city!! Thank you! #usktoulouse2026 #usksymposium2026

Pitting cherries on a hot day in Berlin. / Kirschen entkernen an einem heißen Tag in Berlin-Tempelhof. #urbansketching #urbansketchers #sketchbook #drawingonlocation

Meeting with the DOT (Drawing on Tour) sketchers from the UK in Rotterdam, NL. #DOTrotterdam #urbansketchers #urbansketching #dotrotterdam26 #dotrotterdam2026

20 DOT Sketchers from UK on their tour to Rotterdam met with 4 German sketchers. Four days of drawing + talking, superbly organized by Anne Rose Ooosterbaan (NL) An interesting city with its tragic history of destruction by the German Luftwaffe in 1940 and its reconstruction in modern architecture.

Drawing with the Urban Sketchers Berlin at Hamburger Bahnhof on Sunday. It was wonderful to meet so many sketchers! Thanks to Isabelle Spicer for organizing it! Installation (and text) by Petrit Halilaj. #Urbansketchers #urbansketches #urbanskeching

Sketching together with Urban Sketchers Bremen in the Übersee Museum. Very nice get-together with interesting talks in the museum café afterwards. Thank you, Urban Sketchers Bremen! #urbansketching #urbansketchers #uskbremen

EXIL Podcast launch event, Nov 10, #staatsbibliothekberlin.
Episode 1 is dedicated to Lily Renée (1921–2022) Forced to flee Vienna in 1939 -in the 1940s known as a successful female #comicartist.
EXIL =collaboration between the Leo Baeck Institute NYC | Berlin #lbi and the @bpb.de #urbansketching

Meeting Urban Sketchers Vienna in the Naturhistorisches Museum, sketching together dinosaur skeletons and having a nice drink and chat afterwards. Thank you Vienna! And thank you, Oliver Hoeller for being such a patient and entertaining guide to Vienna! #Urbansketchers #urbansketching #sketchbook

East Germany 1986. In an old sketchbook, I discovered sketches from 1986 of a guided tour to VEB Schwarze Pumpe, GDR, organized by SEW Westberlin. It was quite a peculiar experience at the time. #urbansketching #ddr #schwarzepumpe You can view it on my sketch blog: sketches.surrey.de/1986/11/17/v...

VEB Schwarze Pumpe, DDR 1986 – Detlef Surrey Skizzenblog

In einem alten Skizzenbuch entdeckt: 1986. Informationsreise mit der SEW Spandau zum DDR Kombinat VEB Schwarze Pumpe. Die westberliner Genossen...

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Humboldt Forum Berlin October sketching meetup of Urban Sketchers Berlin on Sunday at the Humboldt Forum, followed by chat and drawing at Café Lebenswelten. Very nice, as always. Thank you Eva Hoefflin for organizing! #urbansketching #urbansketchers #sketchbook #drawingonlocation

Every day, a lone barrel organ player sings in front of the Russian House in Berlin, Friedrichstraße , protesting against the war and Russian aggression against Ukraine. #reportagedrawing #urbansketching #berlinusk #urbansketches #reportageillustration #standwithukraine

The @seattletimes-rss.bsky.social on @urbansketchers.bsky.social founder Gabi Campanario @gabrielcampanario.com -> www.seattletimes.com/pacific-nw-m...

The Seattle sketcher who started a worldwide movement

A remarkable feat by this Seattle-area artist: His urban sketchers group went from 17 members in 2009 to 299,000 worldwide, in 514 cities and more than 70 countries.

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Rettet die Bäume am Tempelhofer Damm! Kundgebung am 27. September 2025 um 12.30 Uhr, gegen die Fällung von knapp 200 Bäumen und den Verlust weiterer 100 Bäume am T-Damm durch Wurzelschädigungen während der Sanierungsphase 2027 bis ca. 2037. Es sollen nur etwa 28 Bäume übrig bleiben!

Meeting with Gabi Campanario from Seattle, the founder of Urban Sketchers, (who vitited Berlin to participate in the Berlin Marathon) at Neptunbrunnen fountain. It was great to meet and sketch and talk together! ¡Hasta la próxima! :-). #uskberlin #urbansketchers #urbansketching

Sketching with Gabi Campanario (great to meet you in Berlin!) from Seattle. Neptunbrunnen fountain, with Marienkirche and Fernsehturm TV tower. #uskberlin #urbansketchers #urbansketching #sketchbook #sketchingonlocation 

Sketches from the Urban Sketchers Germany Meeting 2025 in Stuttgart. View from the town hall onto the market square. Schlossplatz. #uskstuttgart2025 #urbansketchers #uskstuttgart #urbansketching

Sketches from the Urban Sketchers Germany Meeting 2025 in Stuttgart. Opening and closing events with the exhibition at the Stadtpalais and drink & draw at the Theaterhaus Stuttgart. It was superbly organized by the USK Stuttgart organizing team! :) #uskstuttgart2025 #urbansketchers #urbansketching

Sketches from the Urban Sketchers Germany Meeting 2025 in Stuttgart. The "Palast der Republik" on Börsenplatz is an extremely lively place, where hundreds of guests gather every evening to chat and have a drink. @uskstuttgart2025 @urbansketchers @uskstuttgart #urbansketching #uskdeutschlandtreffen

Urban Sketching made the CBS Evening News! youtu.be/gmDF2hKpDnI?...

Urban sketching movement pops up around the world

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13th Urban Sketchers Symposium 2025 in Poznań. Some of my sketches ... #usksymposium #usk2025poznan #usksmposiumpoznan2025 #urbabsketchers #urbansketching #carnetdevoyage #sketchbook #skizzenbuch

Humboldtforum Berlin, Festival "Durchlüften". Saturday Jul, 9, Son Rompe Pera. #usk #urbansketching #urbansketchers #uskberlin

Three days in Strasbourg on my way back from Urban Sketchers Lyon to Berlin. A very nice afternoon with Strasbourg sketchers Lolo Wagner and Nathyi Regner, who taught me how to say “cheers” in Alsatian: “S’gilt!” 🙂 #urbansketching #urbansketchers #travelsketch #sketchbook

Some more sketches from 12e Rencontre Urban Sketchers France - Lyon 2025, June 7-9. Merci beaucoup, USK Lyon !! #usklyon2025 #urbansketching #urbansketchers #sketchbook #carnetdevoyage #usklyon

12e Rencontre Urban Sketchers France, Lyon 2025 USK Lyon hosted the 12th USK France meeting 2025 in Lyon, June 7-9. 1000 sketchers captured their impressions the of the beautiful city. Merci Lyon, c'etait super !! #urbansketching #urbansketchers #usklyon2025 #sketchbook #carnetdevoyage

Amsterdam sketches. On a short trip to Amsterdam I meet Haarlem sketcher and friend Anne Rose Oosterbaan to chat and draw together. Thank you for the great afternoon!

Skizzentage Weimar - A motivated group of sketchers from Weimar invited us again this year to sketch together, create, eat together, exchange ideas and explore Weimar!

Visiting an old friend in Wallersdorf, Germany. Enjoying an after work drink in his carpenter’s workshop. #urbansketch #urbansketching #sketchbook #onlocarion