Ottawa Urban Sketchers

Saturday, October 27, 2018

November 4: Let's Sketch the National Art Centre!

We will meet at the National Art Centre (1 Elgin St., Ottawa)
on Sunday November 4, 2018 from 10 am to 1 pm.
Event Link: https://www.facebook.com/events/1984208531878569/

Source: Ottawa Citizen 2014: NAC Faces front with new entrance facing Confederation Square

WW SketchCrawl #61 A BIG Success

Thanks to everyone who came out to the WW SketchCrawl #61 in the Byward Market on October 20, 2018 We started the day by meeting at 10 a.m. at the Ottawa Art Gallery on George St. in the Byward Market.

Ottawa Urban Sketchers at the Ottawa School of Art

World Wide SketchCrawl #61: October 20

Ottawa Urban Sketchers

Thanks to everyone who attended our June event "Armour/Armure at the Canadian War Museum "

June 28: Armour/Armure at the Canadian War Museum

We are inviting ALL urban sketchers in Ottawa to join us on June 28, 2018 between 5 and 8 pm for this FREE evening of sketching at Canada's War Museum.

Armour / Armure

An exhibition developed by Contemporanea Progetti in collaboration with the Museo Stibbert (Florence, Italy) about "Armour" recently opened at the Canadian War Museum on June 15, 2018.

Armour is a fascinating display of protective gear used by knights, soldiers, athletes and actors through time.

May 30: Block Sketching 2

https://www.facebook.com/events/584181428614704/

Sketching the Ottawa Pops Orchestra

It was an incredible turnout of Ottawa urban sketchers on the Friday before a long weekend at Centrepointe Theatre to sketch the Ottawa Pops Orchestra.

Ottawa Urban Sketchers at Centrepointe Theatre

The Ottawa Pops Orchestra invited sketchers to attend the dress rehearsal of "Harry's Musical World"

May 18: Ottawa Pops Orchestra Rehearsal .

Join the Ottawa Urban Sketchers and sketch the Ottawa Pops Orchestra rehearsal at the Centrepointe Theatre on Friday, May 18, 2018

We are delighted to receive an invitation to attend the dress rehearsal of Harry's Musical World by the Ottawa Pops Orchestra

Block Sketching with the Ottawa Urban Sketchers

With the weather warming we will be organizing a series of sketch nights focusing on specific city blocks.

Bank & Lisgar

May 9, 2018

The first #BlockSketch will be at Bank & Lisgar, with plenty of interesting buildings and skylines in the surrounding block.

Meet in front of Wallack's Art Supplies store at Bank/Lisgar at 5pm or look for fellow sketchers if arriving later.

Reasons to Sketch the Canadian War Museum on November 11

On Saturday Nov. 11, the Ottawa Urban Sketchers will be at the Canadian War Museum

The last time that the Ottawa Urban sketchers have sketched at the Canadian War Museum was November 21st, 2015 and you can read about it here: https://ottawaurbansketchers.blogspot.ca/2015/11/sketching-indoors-at-canadian-war-museum.html.

We now have three good reasons to return on November 11th, 2017:

Geolosketching on Geoheritage Day Oct. 14

The Ottawa Urban Sketchers have been invited by the Department of Earth Sciences at Carleton University to join them on Geoheritage Day for a day of geolosketching at
Hogs Back Falls in Ottawa

Thank YOU Shari Baukopf & Urban Sketchers Mário Linhares

Two sold-out workshops were held in Ottawa on Saturday September 30, 2017 at Sappers Staircase on the Rideau Canal.

September's Chinatown Remix Event

August: Sketching at the Museum and Populace 2017

September 30th Workshop with Shari Blaukopf!

The Ottawa Urban Sketchers are delighted to announce an upcoming workshop in Ottawa with Montreal artist and urban sketcher Shari Blaukopf on September 30th.

"Trees and the City" workshop with Shari Blaukopf

August 24th - The Canadian Museum of Nature

The last time that the Ottawa Urban Sketchers visited the Museum of Nature was January 2016 and you can see photos from that visit here: http://ottawaurbansketchers.blogspot.ca/2016/01/a-great-evening-at-canadian-museum-of.html

Ottawa Urban Sketchers January 2016 at the Museum of Nature

The 56th World Wide SketchCrawl in Ottawa

On Saturday July 29, 2017the Ottawa Urban Sketchers participated in the 56th WW SketchCrawl from 10 to 4 pm.

We started our SketchCrawl at the National Gallery of Canada and many sketchers chose to sketch "Maman: while other sketchers went to the Byward Market to sketch Le Machine - Kumo and LongMa - who were still "sleeping".

Sketch by artist Michael Lukyniuk https://michaelsscroll.blogspot.ca/

Other sketchers chose the Notre Dame Cathedral and other historic buildings along Sussex. Some even sketched the National Art Gallery and our youngest sketcher (7 years old) did a sketch of the Parliament buildings.