Wedding in Esterel (QC) + 36th sketchcrawl

esterel1_web, a photo by kym.watts on Flickr.

Well, it happen to be during the 36th sketchcrawl so I didn't miss the chance to do some sketch on the river of the Lake. Here some extra one (last 3 scans)
Everything was AMAZING! The location, the hotel, the food, the reception, the wedding in the little church, Catherine and all my old friends. I had a great time!
Updates: Jeremy is working on the sketchcrawl documentary that we filmed back in April, so hang in there, we'll have the video soon!

35 Sketchcrawl in kensington Market

well, I ended up making a new blog so that everybody can be connected through it at this address:

http://sketchcrawltoronto.blogspot.ca/

but you can check our results on the FORUM as usual, anche chek even what the rest of the world did as well!
Anyway it was super FUN, we had 13 peope coming and had great time inside the new pizzeria "Via Mercanti" on Adelaide and Baldwin.
Now I'm looking forward to see the video that Jeremy (green military jacket) will come out with!

a video for 35th Sketchcrawl inToronto

SATURDAY 21st April 2012
Hi everybody, friends and acquaintances!

If you never joined a sketchcrawl, that's your chance! 

You'd like but you have kids? bring them with you! You don't know to draw but have a passion for Photography, music, videocording, or just like to be there? Come over!
For this event I decided to make a video (documentary kind, between 5 and 10 minutes) about Sketchcrawl Toronto. I need movie makers volunteers and as many sketching participant as you can involve!
So basically if you are a professional or aspiring director, editor, music player or just like to draw and sketch and meet new people in Toronto, I'd like to hear from you!

Exposure is great because there are people from about 120 towns in the world participating every time, and they all share their results on the Forum. It's a great way to get to know new people doing what you really like!
In the video we should talk about what's cool about Toronto (Environment, multiculturality, artistic culture etc) and what's fun about meeting up and doing shetchrawl (you'll be able to tell it towards the end of your sketching participation if you never come out to this event)

So, WHO's in?

If you don't know what is a sketchcrawl, here the website!
http://www.sketchcrawl.com/
Basically people meet in a place and time (set up on the Forum) and draw whatever they see and like for as long as they can stay. Sometime we migrate in other places nearby after an hour or 2, so if you plan to get there late make sue you have a phone number to call.

You can either write me back -or- reply publicly on the FORUM (this is the link for TORONTO)!

I just moved recently to Toronto, so I'll need the help you can give me in spreading the word.
I also made a Facebook event about it, so you can easily invite your friends. 

thanks!

34th Sketchcrawl in Huntsville

Huntsville is in Ontario, 3 h north of Toronto. Might sound familiar to you because of the G8 in 2010. Although it's also famous because is landscape of many paintings of the Group of Seven.

As I was going to spend the weekend there, without doing snowboard like Kym and my friends, it come handy the fact that was Sketchcrawl weeekend! So I did few sketches. I hope you'll like to experience Sketchcrawl pheraps in your town or in your holiday place next time! 

Huntsville e' in Ontario, a 3 ore Nord di Toronto. Puo' suonare familiare per via del G8 nel 2010. Ma prima di tutto questo posto e' famoso per via dei paesaggi che hanno ispirato il Gruppo dei Sette.

Fatto sta che io non faccio Snowboard, ma fortunatamente era il fine settimana del 34 Sketchcrawl, e dunque ho fatto degli skizzi! Se sei interessato magari la prossima volta puoi partecipare anche tu nella tua citta' o nel tuo luogo di vacanza.

28* Sketchcrawl in Toronto

... A Sketch with history narration on it... lets start to guess what happen!!!
To see other of my sketchcrawl results, clic on this LINK

Un disegno con una storia su di se... Do' il via alle supposizioni suq quello che possa essere successo!
Altri skizzi durante i miei sketchcrawl possono essere visti QUI.

to see what's this event about and what people did in the world look about Sketchcrawl!

Skechcrawl per il mondo

Here some pictures from the one of June 2009, but I'm ready for the next one on September 19th. I see that there are not so many info about it in Italian, so for who can read English, I send you directly to the website and I wish you to have fun!

Che cos'e' lo Sketchcrawl?
lo Sketchcrawl e' un ritrovo di persone che disegnano i vari angoli della citta in cui ti trovi (se quel giorno sei a Firenze puoi metterti d'accordo con i Fiorentini ad esempio) disegnando qualsiasi cosa che tu voglia con la tecnica che preferisci, spostandosi insieme per riprodurre piu' aree (per questo alcuni la chiamano "Maratona di disegno").
L’idea è nata da Enrico Casarosa, genovese, residente a San Francisco, storyboard artist della Pixar dove ha collaborato anche nel recente Ratatouille e Up.

La gente che si aggrega puo' parteciparvi per tutta la giornata o solo per il tempo che si ha a disposizione. Se nessuno si aggrega alla citta' in cui sei, ed hai comunque provato a contattare altra gente (sul Forum) puoi andare cmq da solo/a o con i tuoi figli ed otterrai in realta' molti piu' disegni che seguendo un gruppo. In pratica non si svolge in tutte le citta'del mondo, non e' una cosa organizata da enti o comuni, ma dalle persone che si interessano: per questo c'e' un Forum, cosi' persone come te possono comunicare con chiunque voglia partecipare, anche chi non conosci (ancora).
Tu stesso puoi lanciare la prima pietra, ad esempio se sei di Milano, scrivere qualcosa come "allora, Suggerisco di trovarsi alle 10.30 sulle gradinate del Duomo e proseguiamo da li con la Galleria e poi andando in direzione di Castello Sforzesco".
Il secondo scopo del Forum e', alla fine della giornata o quanto prima riesci, pubblicare i disegni che hai fatto e guarare cos'hanno fatto gi altri da tutto il mondo e condividere assieme quello che e' saltato fuori, scoprire nuovi artisti o nuovi stili e trarne ispirazione.
Qui un esempio di cosa e' stato fatto a Roma durante lo scorso Sketchcrawl, in Giuno.
Spero che ora sia piu' chiaro. Buon Skethcrawl a tutti!

21th Sketch Crawl - Vancouver

-->Back from Holidays! Well, I had fun so for once I was not looking forward to come back. Kym and I had good time visiting Italy, eating good food and spending time with family and friends. Unluckily my home area was hit by bad weather conditions and then we had more snow than usual (the usual is none).
I’ll post some draw I did during my travel very soon ;)
Anyway, back to Vancouver and to my art activities, there was the 21st Sketch crawl on January 10th, right the day after I come back. I tried to organize as well the one for Parma, posting fliers in many places, but I still don't know of the results :S
Not as many people as last time, mostly because of bad rainy/snowy day, but we had the pleasure to get to know Shawn and Jim. Hope to see some post of them on the sketch crawl forum, they’re both really talented. Might be that Sundeep will post some photo too, but I have to understand in which of the thousand websites linked to the Vancouver Sketch group :D

20th Sketchcrawl, also in Vancouver

It's amazing how some artist can organize something that get spread over the world.
I was participating to the Dr Sketchy in Montreal, and through Facebook I'm still getting invites for many other artistic group event, which I was sad to don't have the chance to go, as I live now in Vancouver.
This town is great for many things, but not so much going on about art. So I inscribed myself to a clay sculpturing course, in order to awake my rusted ability with traditional modeling.
But yesterday a friend told me that he's going to a sketchcrawl thing, and I realized that Vancouver has some artist that enjoy this kind of stuff as well. If you don't know this arty activity, it's been invented by an Italian that works in San Francisco, Enrico Casarosa, and you can find infos on this website: http://www.sketchcrawl.com/
or you can find the group of your town on facebook as well.
I take the chace to post a couple of sketches I did of Kym during this summer :p