Our group hasn’t met in a while for sketching so I am going for it and posting an event for our July 1st sketchout at The Works Art Festival in Sir Winston Churchill Square.
We can meet under the entrance banner at 11am or just go ahead and sketch on your own and then meet back at the tables in front of the music stage at 1pm for eating and sharing sketches. Food trucks are an easy choice for lunch.
https://www.yumpu.com/en/document/view/58715926/works-2017-guide-v7-05-30-2017-web
Saturday April 1, 2017
Biological Sciences Centre, U of A (click on North Campus Map and scroll down to click on Biological Sciences Centre)
Meet at 11:00 (see below) or wander on your own
Meet for lunch at 1:00 in the Garneau Lounge, HUB Mall
I was on campus today and did a bit of reconnaissance for our sketchmeet on April 1. Enter the Biological Science Building through the door of the new wing that is closest to Saskatchewan Drive (See photo – The Centennial Centre for Interdisciplinary Science).
Walk straight ahead and turn right at the Second Cup (closed on Saturdays). Go through the double doors and I will be at the Fungi and Lichens case to the right for anyone who wants to meet first at 11:00. Otherwise, feel free to wander on your own.
We can go to HUB for lunch at 1:00. You can grab some food and we’ll meet in the Garneau Lounge (upstairs middle-ish in HUB).
Paid parking along Saskatchewan Drive, in the Windsor Car Park and behind HUB, or you can take the LRT.
I couldn’t find the staircases to nowhere but there are museum cases of specimens in a lot of the elevator/stair landings in both towers, and there are amazing views of the city from the windows in the upper stairwells.
Thanks to Karen Wall for organizing our Sketchmeet.
Visit one of our sketchers, Joanne Wojtysiak, as artist-in-residence at Happy Harbour Comics! 10729 104 Ave NW, Edmonton. Draw things also.
Saturday March 4th, 10:30am to 12:30pm
Lunch 12:30 Location TBA: We can pick a cafe for afterward when we’re there.
Thanks to Joanne Milson and Yvonne Rezek for organizing the January sketch meet!
Happy New Year, sketchers! We will meet Saturday January 7 at 10:30am at the interior entrance to the Lee Pavillion from the Citadel Theatre. It’s not a big space so if you come a little late, sketchers will be easy to find. It’s a lovely venue for winter sketching with all the lush foliage and warm moist air. This will be Urban Sketchers Edmonton second visit to the Lee.
We’ll stop for lunch or snacks at Three Bananas Cafe across the street at 12:30pm, which will give us additional scope for sketching urban life.
See you this weekend!
Thanks to Karen Wall for planning our December sketch meet.
When: Saturday December 3
NOTE SPECIAL MEETING TIME: 11.30 a.m. to 1.30 p.m
Special Event!
Where: Pre-Holiday Gathering at El Cortez mexican restaurant
across from Strathcona Farmers Market on 103 St.
Sketch fun decor, food and each other while consuming tacos and other good things for brunch/lunch. Tequila orders optional. .
Please RSVP for this one so we’ll know if we need to make a
reservation!! Thank you.
Where: University of Alberta – fall colours and architecture.
Meet at the U of A Students’ Union Building (NE entrance nearest to the main Quad)
When: 10:30am on Saturday October 1st.
Or you can just start sketching fall colours and architecture around campus and then meet up with us for lunch in the Students’ Union Building food court at 12:30pm. The nearest parking is in the Stadium Car Park, and of course there is LRT and bus service.
Campus Map: click on North Campus and then scroll down to Students’ Union Building.
Thanks to Shannon for planning the September sketch meet.
Time: Saturday September 3 at 10:30AM
Place: Let’s meet out front of the Hotel Macdonald by the Robbie Burns statue. We can do architectural sketching around that end of Jasper Avenue and some may choose to sketch inside the hotel. We will meet up again at 12:30 in the Confederation Lounge off the hotel lobby.
