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The program of the 25th edition of Rendevouz International du Carnet de Voyage shows the work of French artist Sonia Privat. The image is meant to symbolize women travellers, the theme of this year’s edition of the festival. Dear On the Spot subscribers, For this edition of “Sketcher’s World,” I’m sharing a special dispatch from […]
From ferry decks in the Pacific Northwest to hotel lobbies in Hong Kong, artists everywhere are finding inventive ways to capture new audiences.
Photo by Raymond Uhlir Sketching in the Arctic When Memphis-based painter and sketcher Elizabeth Alley learned about a unique artist residency with the Arctic Circle program, her imagination was captured in a surprising way. Sketching on location is crucial to her studio art practice, she says. “I knew if I spent my time sketching during […]
Back in December, Mario Alvarez recorded the destruction from unprecedented deadly flooding in Valencia, Spain. “These drawings were not easy to make, but I think we should document what happens. In the newspapers there are pages with happy news and sad news. Our sketchbooks are similar,” Alvarez says.
Here are some sketchers who documented the summer Olympic Games in Paris. While none of them was specifically commissioned to be there, their work underscores the unique value of hand-drawn reportage as a visual human record of important events, especially as AI continues to flood social media with machine-generated imagery.
Meet Lydia Wood and John Donohue, two sketchers drawn to food establishments. Wood has drawn more than 300 London pubs and aspires to immortalize the more than 3,000 across the city. Donohue is on a quest to draw every restaurant in New York, Paris, London and beyond.
Drawings to save animals Here’s a great initiative that underscores the value of reportage as a communication and marketing tool. Wildlife artist Delphine Zigoni, 11 other sketchers from USk Paris and journalist Marianne Lagrange recently teamed up to document the life of laboratory animals. They partenered with White Rabbit, a French association that finds homes for the animals when the laboratories […]
Lapin’s sketchbook reportage is sought out by municipalities, museums and even the French military. How did he launch his career as an independent reportage artist and urban sketcher? In this new Artist Talk exclusive for On the Spot members, Lapin talks about his career and the strategies behind his success.
Uganda’s landscape and wildlife in watercolor and pencil “I traveled to Uganda to make one of my dreams a reality: to witness the mountain gorillas.” —Joan León Hot off the press! Barcelona-based sketcher Joan León, the author of Ilustrando Sudamérica*, takes us to a whole new continent in Cuaderno de Uganda ($16.77 on Etsy), a publication he released last […]
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