Making art can sometimes be lonely when you have to hole up for hours in a studio. But a group of creatives in Pittsburgh is ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Flash mobs started as a playful social experiment in the early 2000s. A new movement sweeping the globe is urban sketching, like a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. HOLLAND — Marcia Schrotenboer’s start in sketching goes back to her time as the activity director at Freedom Village. While there, ...

The New York Times called the organization a “grassroots hub for sketchers.” With more than 500 chapters in 70 countries, Urban Sketchers (USk) is more like a phenomenon. And Santa Barbara is on its ...

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 ...

Liz Steel and Marc Taro Holmes live on opposite sides of the globe, but connected through a sketching challenge. Now it’s a phenomenon ...

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 ...

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 ...

Schrotenboer's residency runs through February and includes a series of seven urban sketching sessions, according to a community announcement. Schrotenboer, who started drawing a decade ago, was ...

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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 ...