Symposium Sponsor Profile: Cretacolor

This year we have another new sponsor, Cretacolor! Cretacolor is an Austrian manufacturer of pencils and a variety of other drawing and writing materials including woodless Graphite Monolith and Aqua Monolith pencils.

Cretacolor is providing each Symposium attendee with a sample card containing one each of Cleos graphite pencils, Marino water-soluble colored pencils, and Aqua Stic oil pastels (which are also water-soluble!), as well as one Primo drawing set containing six fine art pencils.

It will be such a treat to try out all of these sketching materials as we’re sketching our way through Barcelona! Thanks, Cretacolor!

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Symposium Sponsor Profile: Sennelier

We are excited to announce that Sennelier is a sponsor of the 2013 Urban Sketching Symposium in Barcelona! Sennelier is a French brand originally started in 1887 that produces many types of art supplies, including oil paints, watercolors, gouache, india ink and other mediums, and they invented the oil pastel!

For our Symposium they are providing each attendee with a USKbook, a handmade book great for pencil, pastel, watercolor, acrylic, gouache and even oil. Sennelier is also providing other materials and additional information about their brand and products.

We are happy to be working with this renowned brand, and hope to continue our collaboration of promoting the art of on-location drawing.