Enrico’s blog

I was recovering from a few days of flu on saturday, my bones aching, I spent the day on my couch like a beached whale, but the 22nd World Wide SketchCrawl sure went down with a bang. We had more than one hundred locations around the world with groups of artists participating; tons of nations [...]

What a great sketchcrawl this past saturday! It was hands down the most attended with artists participating and gathering in more than 90 different locations around the globe. Don’t miss checking out all the drawings on the forums! It really still blows my mind that on these days we are soo many around the world [...]

This saturday, January 10th, it’s the 21st global drawing marathon and people around the world are joining in to sketch around their towns and cities. We have right now an amazing 77 different locations around the world with artists meeting and drawing. Stockholm, Vancouver, Rio de Janeiro, Seattle, London, Milano, Houston, Brisbane, Shanghai, Dublin, Rome, [...]

I am almost on the home stretch on these watercolors for the upcoming exhibition in Paris. Here’s a few recent iphone shots from my kitchen table, the last few pieces. By the way while in France Ronnie I will also be attending Angouleme’s Festival International de la Bande Desinée. We’re really looking forward to meeting [...]

We’ve just made brand new Sketchcrawl t-shirts in a wonderful new color: Galaxy blue! And they are even organic! Get your shirt in time for the next World Wide SketchCrawl (January 10th). They are available right now, right here! Thanks for supporting the first and only global drawing marathon event! AND … Happy ThanksGiving everyone! [...]

Mark your calendars the first SketchCrawl of 2009 is going to be on saturday January 10th!!! Come by the forums, start getting organized in your area or just let us know where you plan to draw! Cheers!

Wow, what a fantastic day out!! The San Francisco chapter of the global drawing marathon saw more than sixty artists walking the streets of the Mission. It was a summery day here and it was really great to walk around and draw away in this wonderful neighborhood. The rest of the world was sketching away [...]

The 20th global drawing marathon day is around the corner, on October 25th!! Help us make this that biggest world wide drawing day ever; 50 different locations around the globe already signed in at the SketchCrawl forums, let us know where you’ll be drawing on that day!!! In San Francisco, we’ll be sketching in the [...]

I was rooting for Jillian Tamaki in this year’s Ignatz awards. So I was so happy to see Skim by Jillian and her cousin Mariko Tamaki winning the Outstanding Graphic Novel category. Winners were announced at the Small Press Expo this weekend, full list here. Previously on this blog:Skim and Jillian’s Totoro Forest piece.

Here’s a little drawing of Fio. I’m testing papers to make special Sketchcrawl notebooks! This woodfree (100gsm) cream colored paper is dealing pretty well with watercolors, not much warping, as it’s quite thick and the color went down nicely no bubbly weirdness that some of the moleskine regular paper gives. My pencil goes down really [...]