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We just chose the date for the next global SketchCrawl marathon, it’ll be held on saturday June 21st! Mark your calendars, spread the word and come by the newly updated forums.

It was an overcast day in SF but no rain, of course. Thanks to all of you for coming out. We had roughly 60 crawlers around the Marina and Fort Mason today. The rest of the world saw around 52 different locations with avid sketchers roaming about! That’s really exciting, no doubt our biggest worldwide [...]

All of us drawing around the world … tomorrow … 50 different places at the moment. Join us for World Wide SketchCrawl 18!

World Wide SketchCrawl 18 is around the corner (march 29th), hope you can join in the marathon from whichever locale you are at in the world. In San Francisco we are gonna be drawing around Ghirardelli square and the Marina.
One exciting little bit of Crawlnews: I am in talks with Moleskines about making a [...]

Kuala Lumpur, Florence, San Francisco, Stockholm, Phoenix, Sydney, Mallorca, Napoli, Chicago, Milan, New York, Gent (Belgium), Seattle, Curitiba (Brazil), New York, Chiba (Tokyo) are but a few of the cities and places that already have signed on to be part of 18th World Wide SketchCrawl on March 29th!! Where are you going to join in [...]

Mark your calendars, call your pencil pals, come by the forums ’cause saturday March 29th is set for the 18th World Wide SketchCrawl !!! Gonna be a big one, don’t miss it.

It’s really pretty amazing to see the amount of drawings and paintings being uploaded on the SketchCrawl forums these last few days. There’s amazing work from several European locales and a many cities in the US, be sure not to miss all this wonderful work from all over the globe. Thanks to all of you [...]

Ok, just went to the lunch gesture drawing class, hit a so-so day, only like bits and pieces of these studies. I also got a chance to scan the SketchCrawl watercolors from saturday, so you can now see decent versions of those: here, here and here.

The San Francisco 17th World Wide Sketchcrawl had a sizable group of roughly 65 artists participating and invading with paper and pencil the streets of Chinatown. There was quite a few of us around the neighborhood that’s for sure, in the afternoon I even had a policeman look over my shoulder asking me how often [...]

I hope you are all joining in this saturday’s global drawing marathon. Wherever you are slow down, take a good look around and put pen to paper. Whatever time you can spare, half hour or the whole day. Be sure to share with the rest of the world your sketches at the SketchCrawl forums. If [...]