Urban Sketchers

Even a complicated print has to start with a sketch.


I am enjoying the Urban Sketchers these days, often checking in just to see the world through the eyes of the draw-ers.   When I travel I like to sketch, it settles me into the place, and into really seeing.  You see a lot more when you slow way down, at a cafe, or on a bench in the square.  I find it kind of hard to hold still though. 
Lately there has been a discussion of the difference between "worked" art, and sketch.  Some people just sketch, and don't take on art as a profession.  And of course many, probably all professional artists, people with the vocation, sketch in one way or another.  So I failed to get the point of talking about it at all.
Some of these sketchers are so good, really much better at drawing than many people who make art as their profession.  There is something going on in this world that does not have to do with electrons.  And that has to be good.