One day to go...

The Symposium only opens tomorrow, July 11th,  but the city is already teeming with sketchers. It's exciting enough to be in Barcelona, but to be in Barcelona AND meet sketchers everywhere you look is wonderful. I came in late and missed part 1 of the 3 park sketchcrawl this morning, but still caught the rest of it.

Jumping right into drawing La Sagrada Familia as my first sketch in Barcelona was hard. That might be when I drew so many of them.. just have to keep at it till you get it right!

  

Walking down some more, we sketched the La Pedrera building, one of the most gooey buildings I have ever seen.

And, inspired by Lapin, I've been sketching Urban Sketchers everywhere I can.

 

Follow us as we sketch our way through the rest of this week, and remember, you can see ALL the Barcelona sketches here on flickr.

THANK YOU

The Symposium is around the corner, and we think it is time to thank everybody that has been involved in the organization for the effort they have put into this huge event.

We want to give our warmest thanks to our people in Barcelona: Yadira Reyes, Marta Castro, Daniel Castro, Eduardo de Vicente, Isaac Duenyas, David Ramírez, Shiem, Swasky, Sílvia Xicola, César Caballud, Miguel Herranz, Sagar Fornies and Lapin. Everybody has been involved as much as their circumstances allowed. We know how much time and effort this event demanded, and we deeply appreciate all of their efforts to make it a great success.

We also want to thank the USK Board, Elizabeth Alley, Gabi Campanario, Jason Das and Orling Domínguez for their support across the ocean. It has been really helpful to have their insight and experience with similar issues on previous Symposiums. Their advice and assistance, as well as being part of the team, has been critical for the success of the organization. We also want to say thank you to the Workshops Committee for their work choosing such a great bunch of instructors. And we want to give our special thanks to Gabi Campanario and Orling Domínguez, for their hard work, involvement and contributions.

Thank you also to our sponsors and contributors, to the Barcelona City Council, Sant Lluc and the CCCB for supporting us financially, and providing us with excellent materials and logistics. We are grateful for having some of the best premises in Barcelona to host our Symposium.

Finally we want to thank all of the instructors, lecturers and attendees for their enthusiasm in being the essential part of this event, and because without them the Symposium would not take place. We know the expectations for Barcelona are very high, and we hope the Symposium will live up to them. We are doing our best to make it a great experience.

Looking forward to meeting all of you and drawing together in just a few hours!

Last minute Change of Location for Workshop A

Change of location: Workshop A

Lighting the City: Lights and Shadows amid Excitement and Serenity
Instructor: Sagar Fornies

New location: Universitat de Barcelona
Gran Via de les Corts Catalanes, 585
08007 Barcelona

Map Link: http://goo.gl/maps/OXZzi


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Usk Barcelona Symposium Flickr Pool

Urban Sketchers BCN 2013, a group on Flickr.

Although there's already a lot of sharing over FaceBook, please remember that there's also a Usk Barcelona Symposium Pool on Flickr open to everybody. NO REGISTRATION NEEDED!!!

bcn2013usk - first meeting

looking for some sketchers, half an hour before the meeting at the cccb bar, I met arno and flaf, both from germany, sketching in the street near by.
after 5:00, there were no doubt anymore, something is happening! some friendly faces arrived from all over the world: nina from sweden, tia from singapour, isabel from mauritania, eduardo from sao paolo, melanie from ny, leez from sydney… a endless list of friends I haven't met for months or years, and some others I met for the first time around a glass of beer.
I was very impressed to meet Kiah Kiean from malaysia, I admire so much his work:
in an hour, is starting the first public event, much more sketchers must have arrived in the night, I'm so exciting!!

 by lapin