Autumn changes things on Torcello. There are fewer visitors, which may have something to do with the change in the timetable of the vaporetti. The last few years there was…
With Venice in autumn during the week before Halloween, I expected damp days, dull light and mystical wisps of mist creeping slowly from the sea over the canals and through…
This week Sandra, one of our unfailing USK Vienna organizers, called for a sketch crawl. It should be my first one. Quick sketching is not one of my strengths. To…
Summer and Sunday, the ideal preconditions for urban sketching in the centre of Vienna. Two very different but beautiful buildings are located near each other. When designing the Karlskirche (St.…
This is a homework for Liz Steel’s Sketching Now Foundations course. Obviously the assignment was to draw a part of a building covered by plants. I was amazed when I…
It was on a hot summer day during lunch time that I did my first real urban sketching. I picked one of the most impressing and oldest buildings in Vienna:…
Like so many other people I am the victim of a strange teaching method in a strange school system. After primary school I had two drawing lessons once a week.…
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My name is Patricia. Travelling, painting flat tin figures and urban sketching are three of my hobbies. And that’s exactly what this website is about.