![]() ![]() Profession I am an Architect and Product Designer. In the meanwhile, you can keep up with my sketches on my Instagram account, on my blog. ![]() I'm looking forward to contribute to this blog. Learning from the best: sketching at Gabi Campanario's workshop in Seattle last May Sketching at the demonstration Families Belong Together at the ICE Detention center in Tacoma in June The Amgen Helix Pedestrian bridge on August 24, at the latest USK Seattle eventĪfter the Symposium in Porto, I spent a few more day in Portugal, traveling to Évora The uniqueness of what is in front of us and "to meet it just as it "bearing witness" to the reality around us, an opportunity to open up to Object or a scene make me learn about them more intimately than just ![]() To me is, above all, a meditative activity. In May of this year, I quit my job in high-tech as UserĮxperience researcher, which left me more time to sketch and draw. I got hooked with urban sketching even more afterĪttending the two most recent Urban Sketchers' Symposiums in Chicago and In Seattle, and I started hanging out with urban sketchers, the best I took classes at the School of Visual Arts in New York City and at the Gage Academy Kid, and I've been working on some kind of artistic project on and offĪll my life, but only in the past few years I started to be seriousĪbout sketching and painting. Moved to Philadelphia, PA and suburbs, and then to NYC. Pisa, Tuscany, in Padova, a 30-minutes train ride from Venice, and a few University of Oregon Psychology graduate program. Oregon-just like Andika!-as a one-year exchange student to the In Cognitive Psychology, I took a plane (and an umbrella) to Eugene, The farm, and the mission of this organization.īit more about me. I loved the place, and especially this green and yellow Johnĭeere tractor, but also the amazing produce, the flowers that grow on Video, and I took the opportunity to visit the Farm and to do some ![]() With videographer Rebecca Murray to do some filming for a new training Practices to new farmers in Skagit Valley. Provides land, tools, and training in sustainable and organic farming The John Deere tractor posing for me in all its majesty (Photo by Rebecca Murray)Ī non-profit "farm incubator" near Mount Vernon, WA. Has been my sketching community in the past two years and I've been inĪwe of its talented sketchers and supportive environment.Īntonella sketching at Viva Farms in Mount Vernon, WA (Photo by Rebecca Murray) Post as correspondent for the Urban Sketchers Seattle blog. Seattle sketchers! I'm Antonella, and I'm excited to publish my first This month, both drawn at Seattle's Fishermen's Terminal. In the last year getting a bikeĪnd having more unstructured time due to the Covid pandemic has led toĪn interest in the waterfront of Seattle and an explosion of drawings of Since then I have drawn more and more, at first mainly while I learned a lot about composition and light and shade,Īnd when in my mid-twenties I began to draw again and started painting in watercolour while in graduate school in the U.S, I think that experience with photography helped me a lot. Pictures of people on buses and trains, and portraits when I could get a Teenager I drew less and dropped the science and became obsessed withīlack-and-white photography and printing my own photographs. Leather and velvet, ready to take me anywhere in the world for the sake With chemical laboratories and divans and armchairs upholstered in red Locomotives, private trains, research vessels, and planes fitted out On photographs from an old National Geographic, on sheets of paper glued One of my earliest creations was a version of Disneyland, based Drawing was a way to create a world around me with things I Was born and brought up in South Africa and was always drawing as aĬhild. Looking at and registering details and gettingĪt the larger structure, whether of a person, building, or landscape,Ībsorbing atmosphere and mood, and thinking about the past and presentīehind that person or object is a wonderful act of meditation. Standing or sitting quietly and observing and being drawn deeper into Going out into the world and losing myself in something bigger by Is so much that I like about urban sketching, but the main thing is Which has led to contacts with other urban sketchers. Immediately thought, "That's sounds like what I am doing" and startedįollowing and posting on my flickr site ( ),īut only recently joined the Seattle Urban Sketchers Facebook group, Friend told me about Urban Sketchers about ten years ago and I ![]()
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