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Reportage News: Mereida Fajardo, Joan Chiverton, Chip Sullivan, Luís Simões, plus a new Sketcher Press book!

Gabriel Campanario
April 9, 2024

Hello readers, Here’s a new bulletin of sketching and reportage news. If you like what you read, please share so others can learn about On the Spot and Sketcher Press. Behind the scenes at a London hospital “Vital Organs” is a newly-released 48-page publication collecting the gripping reportage drawings made by Mereida Fajardo at Chelsea […]

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What 600 walruses were doing in costumes and bathing suits

Dominika Wróblewska
March 31, 2024

More than 600 swimmers have come from all over the country to say goodbye to winter by plunging into the cold waters of the Baltic Sea. They are carrying flags, banners and colorful Marzannas. Many here are dressed as Marzannas themselves, with wreaths in their hair and straw-like dresses.

Walking in the footsteps of trailblazing women

Lis Watkins
March 6, 2024

Today I am being a tourist in my own city. I have booked a £25 ticket for a two-and-a-half-hour excursion titled “Working Women in the East End.” The walking tour will wend its way from the world-famous Tower of London and a section of the old Roman city wall into hip Brick Lane, finishing at the popular Spitalfields Market.

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Reportage News: Simo Capecchi in Adesso magazine; Paul Madonna’s All Over Coffee; Substack Reads features On the Spot

Gabriel Campanario
February 21, 2024

Hello readers, Some housekeeping: On the Spot has a new tagline: the Magazine of Reportage Illustration. This slogan better reflects my original goal for the newsletter: to create a reader-supported publication that pays artists for articles of compelling visual storytelling. In light of the new tagline, “Sketching News Roundups” are now called “Reportage News.” These posts will […]

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Tractors as far as the eye can see

Dominika Wróblewska
February 12, 2024

It’s a frosty and foggy morning in my hometown on the Baltic coast of Poland. Everything is strangely quiet. Noises are stifled in the milky air. The only prominent sound is that of birds, chirping away. But the calm is about to end.

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Rewind: Marielle Durand on drawing inside the French Parliament and around her Paris 13 neighborhood

Gabriel Campanario
January 29, 2024

The guest of my January Live Zoom was Marielle Durand, an artist, author and urban sketcher based in Paris. Durand belongs to a very small group of artists who holds a special pass to draw inside the French Parliament, where she has been documenting political debates since October of 2022. We talked about many things during our […]

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