Marielle Durand has been documenting political debates at the French Parliament since October of 2022. In this Live Zoom Marielle shares how she juggles illustration commissions with self-initiated projects; how she pushes herself by experimenting with new tools or techniques; and offers a preview of an upcoming book of sketches drawn within a 1-kilometer radius of her Paris home.

London-based Artist and scholar Louis Netter is the author of “Reportage Drawing: Vision and Experience.” In this talk we talk about his book, his art journey from disillusioned art student in Connecticut to enthusiastic reportage artist after meeting an Italian teacher named Mario Minichiello in England, the perils of comparing reportage drawing with photography and
the obsession with accuracy and detail in the early reportage drawings by the sketch artists of the 19th century illustrated newspapers, among other topics.

Len Grant relies on crowdfunding to publish high-quality books of his sketches. Dear subscribers, How did you like Thursday’s Live Zoom with Len Grant? If you missed it, the recording is at the bottom of this post. I really enjoyed the conversation with Grant. He talked about his professional journey from photography to urban sketching, the […]