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 ...

Many travellers snap pictures during their trips, but others find that slowing down to illustrate a place helps them appreciate it in a more meaningful way. Back in the 1800s, French artists like ...

A new movement sweeping the globe is urban sketching, like a flash mob with pencils. Itay Hod has the story. Flash mobs started as a playful social experiment in the early 2000s. A new movement ...

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 ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A group of local artists ...

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 ...

To commemorate the 10th anniversary of Urban Sketchers, the Today at Apple program has launched a series of four sketch walks, hosted by Uma Kelkar, Rob Sketcherman, Don Low, and Omar Jamarillo in the ...

PORTLAND, Ore. — On a crisp, bright fall Saturday morning, Portland's Director Park awakens. A woman moves through her exercise routine. A pianist fills the air with music on an outdoor piano open for ...

A new group of artists in Charlotte have made the city their canvas. They are the Urban Sketchers, a local offshoot of an international nonprofit organization of the same name founded in 2007. Ellen ...

The mission is simple: Get as many people sketching together as you can. Experts, beginners, it doesn’t matter. The annual West Coast Sketch Crawl is open to anyone who wants to draw — and this year ...

Bent over their sketchbooks, a group of art lovers in a public park in the heart of Chennai, India, are busy rendering their surroundings. Their subjects are varied, and they work with any number of ...