Urban sketching is the practice of drawing the world around you, even if it’s the world you’re used to seeing all the time. You can learn to see, appreciate and render the world you live in with the ...

HOLLAND, Michigan (WXMI) — Marcia Schrotenboer has become a familiar face in Holland, known for capturing moments not through a camera but through her sketches. Later in life, Schrotenboer has found ...

DULUTH — Sam Nielsen packs up her paints, brushes and sketchbook. In her backyard, she clips a miniature eight-paint palette to a thumb-sized sketchpad and inks the outline of her view over the fence.

When Shruti Vijay’s husband started studying at Northwestern, she took up urban sketching in Evanston as a hobby. Now, Vijay’s artwork has become a staple of the community, and she has been teaching ...

Drawing groups help build community and explore new places, like at a recent Urban Sketchers KC event at Family Tree Nursery. Drawing is an an easy hobby that you can take with you anywhere in the ...

Mandy Lewis-Houston decided to sketch the Yorktown Windmill on a warm afternoon in early March. As she worked, a passerby stopped, pausing on Water Street to notice the windmill she said she’d passed ...

Artists gathered at the Humane Society of Asheville on Saturday, Jan. 10, to sketch some of their adoptable animals.

HOLLAND — Marcia Schrotenboer’s start in sketching goes back to her time as the activity director at Freedom Village. While there, one of her residents would do sketches when they would travel. No ...

It was one week before Christmas and Rosedale Center buzzed with shoppers and twinkling holiday displays. Amid the bustle, it would be easy to miss people perched at tables and on benches at the ...

Karen Voyer-Caravona is a Louisville resident who uses watercolor sketching as a therapeutic outlet. Voyer-Caravona is a member of Urban Sketchers Jeffersonville, a local chapter of a global urban ...