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Our Urbansketchers meet ups are on the first Saturday of each month from 10.30am, some Wednesdays from 10.30am and from April to September on Tuesday evenings at 6.30pm, and getting earlier as the light and weather change. The dates, times and locations are listed on the calendar page of our blog, in the Facebook group and on our Instagram and Bluesky feeds. This winter (25 / 26) we’ll be meeting one or two evenings a month indoors.

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Urbansketchers is a worldwide organisation based around people going out into the environment to sketch what they see. It has been in existence for over ten years and began in Seattle, USA. The Urbansketchers’ philosophy is summed up as ‘see the world, one drawing at a time’. Urbansketchers is an international nonprofit dedicated to fostering a global community of artists who practise on-location drawing.

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What happens at an Urbansketchers event?

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What happens at an Urbansketchers event?

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All Urbansketchers events are free to attend. Participants bring all their own materials. There is a start time when everyone meets and a meeting together at the end of the event. At the end of the sessions sketchers take part in the ‘throwdown’ when all the sketchbooks are placed together for the group to look at. There is no formal teaching but the ‘throwdown’ and the general sharing and talking leads to informal learning.

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Urbansketchers groups are informal and welcoming: anyone can come along and join in. We encourage people to say they are coming so we can look out for them but we're happy for anyone to come along once, regularly or as and when you want to.

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This is the website for the overall international organisation. There's lots of great resources, ideas and examples on this website.

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Urban Sketchers | A Global Community of Artists - Home

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Urban Sketchers is a global community of artists. We share our love for the places where we live and travel-one drawing at a time.

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Our blog is an archive of where we have sketched since we began in April 2015. Here you can see where we're sketching on the calendar page and explore throwdowns from all of our meetings. You can subscribe to this blog so that when a new post is made you will be sent an email.

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Drawing on location in Northampton and Northamptonshire

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You can join our Facebook group to see where we're sketching, what we've sketched and interesting information about urbansketching.

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Log into Facebook to start sharing and connecting with your friends, family, and people you know.

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We are @urbansketchersnorthampton on Instagram. You can follow us to see where we're sketching and what we've sketched.

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What should I bring to an Urbansketchers meet up?

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What should I bring to an Urbansketchers meet up?

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You would bring some paper or a note pad or sketchbook, something to lean on and something to sketch with like a pencil or a pen.

You should consider the weather and if you plan to sketch outdoors dress accordingly and bring something to sit on. We often plan an inside place to retreat to in case of rain.

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If you are anywhere in the world you might find a group of urbansketchers that you can sketch with: there are more than 500. This is a map of the groups in the UK.

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Urbansketchers groups in the UK - Google My Maps

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Blue tags - official chapters listed on the Urbansketchers website http://www.urbansketchers.org/p/list-of-chapters.html Yellow tags - unofficial groups - if you aren’t on the above list maybe you are thinking about applying. There are details about how to do this at the link above.
Share your events on the UK events page: https://www.facebook.com/Urban-Sketchers-UK-Events-879813955399623/

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We have a BlueSky account and you can follow us here @usknorthampton.bsky.social

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Learn more about Bluesky at bsky.social and atproto.com.

Profile

Urbansketchers Northampton

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We are the Northampton, UK chapter of Urbansketchers. Check our blog for an archive of our activities and a calendar page of upcoming events: https://drawingoutsidenorthants.wordpress.com/

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We are the Northampton, UK chapter of Urbansketchers. Check our blog for an archive of our activities and a calendar page of upcoming events: https://drawingoutsidenorthants.wordpress.com/