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I can't believe it has been a month since the 2018 Urban Sketchers Symposium in Porto, Portugal. It was the first time I have attended a Symposium, but I hope it's not the last. It was amazing to be so immersed in sketching and surrounded so continuously by sketchers! I am posting just a few sketches here, but more are on Instagram. I am Sue.Heston on Instagram.
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This is one of the drawings I did in Jose Louro's workshop. I also took a workshop with Joao Catarino, and both of these guys stretched the way I think of urban sketching.
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What? A watercolor? Charline Moreau demoed a monochrome watercolor underpainting technique that was all about values!
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This was the scene at the Final Sketchcrawl - sketchers as far as the eye could see (over 500!).
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And one of my personal favs from an earlier sketchcrawl to wrap up a picture-heavy post.