Near noontime at a coffeehouse, somewhere in the belly of a lively & thriving Midwest city.
Been absent on BlueSky for awhile. Building a following and getting interactions on BlueSky has been way below my expectations. Dreadful, really. Not ready to quit, yet.
#uskchicago #coffeeculture #fictional

Flat on my back, just one of those days, so as I stretched my piriformis, I sketched from the floor with a Van Gogh palette of color pencils. #uskchicago #urbansketchers #vangogh

In remembrance of this 81st anniversary of D-Day. My plein air-urban sketch at American Cemetery in Normandy France
#D-Day #urbansketch #uskchicago

My Urban Sketch of Chicago’s iconic “Bean” is Evanston Made Members Group Show at Evanston Art Center 5/30-6/30 opening reception Saturday 5/31 5-8p. Show features original art by 150 members of Evanston Made, nonprofit arts org @urbansketchers.bsky.social #uskchicago #evanstonmade #evanstonartist

I posted these on the Urban Sketchers Chicago page because a few people were curious about the materials I used for this.... Here ya go! #urbansketchers #uskchicago #mixedmedia

#SketchingontheDarkside Today’s UrbanSketch at the Purple Line bridge over NorthShore Channel near CTA Central St Station Evanston. #uskchicago #carandache #stillmanbirn

I’ve had several questions about this. I used carand’ache supracolor pencils, White, Indigo Blue, Scarlet with highlight dot of GellyRoll pen white and orange to place him at the pool’s waterfall edge where he appeared. #birdsofinstagram #uskchicago #urbansketchers #carandache #gellyrollpen

Some #urbansketching at the Apple store last week, looking out at the Michigan avenue bridge. Great views here of the Riverwalk.

#urbansketchers #usk #uskchicago #chicago #sketchbook #livesketch #mixedmedia #michiganave

2024 in review.
Happy New Year to all of you. May 2025 be a good one!

#art #artistsofinstagram #artistsoninstagram #usk #urbansketchers #chicago #uskchicago #cincyurbansketchers #daytonurbansketchers #bourbansketchers #sketches #sketchbook #localart #localartist #internalcombustionart

Digital painting from life of people seated in the library with stacks of books in the background on an iPad, held by the artist in front of the scene

Digital painting from life of people seated in the library with stacks of books in the background on an iPad, held by the artist in front of the scene

The figure session we were planning on was off for the day and we were going to miss the start of a second, so we did some urban sketching at the library.
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#drawing #sketch #sketching #artist #chicagoart #chicagoartist #art #uskchicago #urbansketchers
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