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Sketching News Roundup: Jenny Soep at Connect; Mike Shisler’s Burning Man experience; Valerie Orsat’s zine; Christina Wald’s travelogue

Gabriel Campanario
September 26, 2023

Hello readers, Fall has arrived in Seattle. I’m excited to share a new “Sketching News Roundup” with you as rain begins to pour outside. Enjoy! Tiny Changes and live-painter Jenny Soep Photo by Ryan Buchanan. Stockholm-based reportage artist Jenny Soep landed a pretty rad gig the last week of August. She was the official sketch artist for Edinburgh’s Connect […]

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Kuta, Bali: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

Oliver Hoeller
September 13, 2023

Kuta promises sun-soaked beaches and vibrant nightlife for many travelers. But beneath its alluring surface lies a complex tapestry of experiences that can be both enchanting and challenging to observe.

Sketching News Roundup: Erin De Bar, Joey Mason, Beirut Anniversary, Society of Illustrators

Gabriel Campanario
September 1, 2023

Hi readers, With just a few minutes of August left on the clock here in Seattle, On the Spot’s “Sketching News Roundup” is back. Enjoy! Joust draw it! Earlier in August, London-based illustrator Erin De Bar documented a famous joust competition at Hampton Court Palace. De Bar told me via text how she felt the pressure to capture […]

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Saving Luma

Tina Koyama
August 21, 2023

On a warm, sunny July afternoon, a bright yellow excavator sat idle where a housing development will be built in North Seattle. Growing behind it is a Western Red Cedar estimated to be 200 years old.

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It doesn’t get any more American than this

Mário Linhares
July 6, 2023

How do New Yorkers celebrate Fourth of July? I was told the Coney Island Hot Dog Eating Contest is a “thing,” so I headed to the legendary amusement district in Brooklyn in hopes of capturing a uniquely American scene.

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Sketching News Roundup: Patrick Vale; Mistograf in English; Drawings from the late 1900s; OTS anniversary

Gabriel Campanario
June 23, 2023

Hello readers and happy summer, or winter, depending where you find yourself as a new season starts. Here’s a new summary of cool and current work happening in the world of urban sketching and reportage illustration. If you like what you see, please share On the Spot and invite others to subscribe. From sketchbook to asphalt “As […]

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