Making art can sometimes be lonely when you have to hole up for hours in a studio. But a group of creatives in Pittsburgh is ...

Urban sketching is the practice of drawing the world around you, even if it’s the world you’re used to seeing all the time. You can learn to see, appreciate and render the world you live in with the ...

Liz Steel and Marc Taro Holmes live on opposite sides of the globe, but connected through a sketching challenge. Now it’s a phenomenon ...

The global phenomenon of urban sketching is taking off in Visakhapatnam. An artist depicts a slice of life unfolding in front of him/her in the trend, that is said to have started in the US more than ...

Many travellers snap pictures during their trips, but others find that slowing down to illustrate a place helps them appreciate it in a more meaningful way. Back in the 1800s, French artists like ...

Great landscape art can transport you to another world. Think of Georgia O'Keeffe's Southwestern hills, Claude Monet's garden of water lilies. For years now, though, groups of amateurs have been ...

When Shruti Vijay’s husband started studying at Northwestern, she took up urban sketching in Evanston as a hobby. Now, Vijay’s artwork has become a staple of the community, and she has been teaching ...

Syracuse, N.Y. -- The Urban Sketchers of Syracuse began by accident. Bill Elkins, a retired architect who likes to draw, was at a meeting of a local art group when his sketchbook got passed around.

A splash of red here, a dab of white there, some fine lines in black, followed by a sweep of blue…. At the end of two-and-a-half hours, the watercolours on the white paper take on the shape of the ...