Urban Sketching + Sneaky Art Meetup!

We had a hectic summer. Instead of our usual summer travel, we stayed home in favor of beach trips and lots of DIY. But there have been good moments. Good moments with little boys’ sandy legs and tousled hair, and good food, and friends you’ve know for but not seen in forever.

And then there was a lovely impromptu meetup with my sketch crew. My friend Ellen Vesters (talented artist and serial entrepreneur who set up her own art academy, Venster, like HELLO) had heard rumblings of Nishant Jain of the amazing SneakyArt podcast being in town and organized an Urban Sketchers meetup.

As small group of us met up in the shade of the Dom church in Utrecht, and we talked and sketched and talked, and attracted strangers from all over the globe along the way. Fellow artists out for a stroll, eager to join the conversation about art and life. Bits of our conversation have ended up in the podcasts (here).

Achter de Dom, Utrecht

Part of our group having lunch at De Rechtbank, Utrecht

Results and feet!

Some of us then went to have lunch, just around the corner, where I did another quick sketch. We all* left that day feeling exhilarated by the sense of adventure and possibility.

*All being: Nishant, Ellen, Vera, Jason, and Emma

Dude on the terrace of De Rechtbank