If you've re-discovered The Painting Life blog, aka orbisplanis.blogspot.com, thank you for viewing. As you may have seen in my last post, I started posting again after a multi-year hiatus to attend to a family crisis.
In order to make my posting to The Painting Life blog as easy as humanly possible, I'm using the most basic blogspot formatting tools so that I may post quickly without fiddling with the look and feel. I hope you don't mind.
The topic of today's blog is Urban Sketching, in which I recently started participating. I knew very little about this art phenomena, although I had heard snippets about it for years. So I did a little online research. Seems it is way bigger and more widespread than I imagined - worldwide in fact! There are urban sketchers in every part of the globe and it appears in most of the world's urban population centers.
I was pleasantly surprised to find one in San Antonio and one in Austin. I found them on the MeetUp app and joined the movement. The San Antonio group meets roughly twice a month at notable locations around the city and in nearby Hill Country towns.
Today's image is my sketch from last Saturday at Mission San Juan Capistrano, one of San Antonio's famous missions dating from the Spanish colonial era.
Hope you enjoy it and maybe it will spark an interest in your trying urban sketching.
#urbansketching, #acrylicpainting
