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Everywhere You Look, Urban Sketchers: USk Symposium 2017

[by Wes Douglas, Symposium Correspondent in Chicago, USA]

Signs that Urban Sketchers are really making an impression in Chicago.

Thursday July 27th was Day One for Workshops, Demonstrations and Lectures. In an effort to match up the different participants with their respective instructors, attendees were asked to meet at the Congress Plaza North (a wide section of hardscaping across the street from Roosevelt University) and signs were held up to help people identify their workshop group. Anyone not familiar with this system would've passed by what looked like a very strange protest rally with signs that simply had workshop names on them.

As correspondents (and there were just three of us), we were each assigned three workshops to cover in the morning and three more to cover in the afternoon each day. There were as many as 36 workshops over the course of three days and each of the correspondents would divide and conquer their share of them. Pretty good plan...at least on paper.

My first assignment was to capture LK Bing's workshop "Spontaneous Creation of Dramatic Atmosphere." Our group traversed the 15-minute walk to the financial district of Chicago and then settle into a spot on the sidewalk just north of The Rookery Building on LaSalle Street, facing the Chicago Board of Trade. It was important to be on this street but somewhere where we would not upset the security guards charged with clearing the entrance ways. LK Bing handed out printed copies of his process, some small cards for thumbnail sketching and felt tip Snowman drawing pens. Then he described his process while buses, trucks and pedestrians whizzed by on a very busy street.

Then after a brief lecture, LK moved to set up his easel and demonstrate his simple process of selecting a scene, roughing out the layout and then building up color from light to dark. His handout was meant to be a clear description of his process since he admitted that his English was not very strong, but once he put pen or brush to paper, one only needed to watch how he worked to understand how effective his process is.

As a correspondent, the most amount of time you can generally spend with any workshop is about an hour before heading off to the next one. Thankfully Beliza Mendes had mapped out our assignments beforehand so that all three workshops were generally in the same geographic area of the city.

My next stop on the workshop tour was "Scaling Tall Buildings with A Single" with Paul Heaston. Paul's workshop was at the Chase Bank Plaza, where he explained his technique for sighting and fitting Chicago's skyscrapers onto the typical sketchbook format. Without a proper understanding of Paul's methodology for tackling the very tall buildings of Chicago, one might assume that Paul simply works from a fish-eye reference photograph (or his super-power is some kind of wide-angle vision). Nothing could be further from the truth. Rather, Paul walks his students through a selection process of picking out the right subject matter and framing it in such a way that works best with the format and style that best suits your drawing preference. One point, two point and the ultra-cool "umbrella perspective" are all discussed and practiced by the group so that they might never have to be intimidated by anything over 15 stories tall.

In my own sketch correspondenct way, I decided that I would execute my capture of Paul's principles by employing a similar technique. When Paul made his rounds and checked in on how I was reporting on his workshop, he was tickled by this warped rendering and exclaimed "Alright, even the sketch correspondent is using my process!" It was a funny moment.

Now, if you are keeping score, you would expect that a third workshop report would appear here. Sadly, when I searched for the third workshop, they were not at the location that was indicated on our special correspondents' map. Ultimately, I was not able to register a proper report on the third workshop of the morning.

After the lunch break, I returned to the Financial district next to the Federal Plaza. This is the location where Calder's Flamingo is framed by three Mies van der Rohe buildings. The demonstration of Capturing the Rhythm and Energy of Chicago with Michigan artist Lisa Flahive focused on where cars, buses and pedestrians danced across the busy intersection and created a menu of motion, movement, color and sound. Way to go Lisa, and as her students definitely witnessed, she has a lot of rhythm and energy of her own.

I had a really proud Urban Sketchers moment when I was capturing Lisa Flahive's demonstration and the Sketchcrawl both happening at the Federal Plaza. I started to hear comments between curious pedestrians as they passed by the backdrop of artists sitting, standing, and squatting in every nook and cranny of the plaza. I knew the impact of what the Symposium was having on Chicago when I heard such comments as:

• "Holy %#&@ there are a lot of artists sketching here" [at the Federal Building Plaza]
• "Hey, you all must've been given a difficult homework assignment."
• "There are sketchers everywhere we look for crying out loud!"
• "You guys in some kind of art group or what?"
• "Remember when we saw all those artists sketching by the Bean? I think this is the same group and now they're all here."

Go #urbansketchers nation, go.

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