4th International Urban Sketching Symposium in Barcelona!

Last week I was in Barcelona to attend the urban sketching symposium.

Over 150 urban sketchers from all over the world met to draw together, learn and have fun.  A number of workshops, demo's, social 'drink and draw' sessions and public 'sketchcrawls' were held over three days in various location around central Barcelona.

It was brilliant!  I loved it and Barcelona.  I learnt so much and met many friendly and talented people...and ate lots of delicious food.  It was intense, inspiring an fun.


Sketching and happy in Barcelona (Thanks for the photos Melody).


Here are some sketches I did before the symposium started....

En-route to Barcelona! (another easyjet sketch)



A drink in El Born.  Barcelona has so many lovely squares and plazas with great outdoor cafe/bars.



and Tapas!



A work in progress.....Gaudi's La Sagrada Familia

on the hill in Montjuic at the Joan Miro Foundation.  I particularity like the sculptures on the terrace.

Meeting fellow sketchers (and nervous sketching) at the C3B Bar the night before the symposium.

I'll post my sketches from the workshops in another post.

Dinner in the garden after work

It was very hot today (for London). The high was 34 degrees Celsius and it is still 32 degrees at 7.30pm.

....meanwhile on the other side of the world, central New Zealand and Wellington (my home city) is still being shaken by aftershocks after a 6.5 magnitude earthquake on Sunday.