"SketchCrawl in Support of i2P"
Sketchbook, pen, watercolours are ready!
Tomorrow, Saturday April 13th, 2013 is the “39th International SketchCrawl”. This is seriously, one very cool idea! The brainchild of San Francisco based artist and illustrator Enrico Casarosa, the SketchCrawl is a one day sketching marathon, held several times a year, where artists from all over the world, participate by getting out there and sketching their city, town, home, environment, all on the same day. The sketchers then post their results to the online forum hosted by sketchcrawl. com.
Enrico came up with the idea after attending a friend's stag pub-crawl back in the early 2000’s. He thought it would be fun to use the idea of a “Crawl” and created the concept of “SketchCrawl”. He decided to take an entire day and go out and sketch. With a sketchbook, pencil and watercolours in hand he ventured out and drew everything from the first cup of coffee in the morning to the buses he rode and restaurants he ate in - everything he did that day was sketched. I have seen postings of Enrico’s first SketchCrawl and what a Marathon it was! He actually took it to the extreme and filled a sketchbook of every moment of his day!
Eventually Enrico grew the idea, and 8 years later the SketchCrawl has participants all over the world sketching simultaneously. Check out the SketchCrawl website and forums - very inspirational for those who love sketching and art.
This will be my 4th time participating and now have a couple artists who sketch with me. Tomorrow we are meeting at 11am in at the Byward Market information booth. Come on out and join us! It is always a lot of fun and a great way to spend a few hours. Basically anything goes. There is no prerequisite for participation - there is no prerequisite for artistic background training or inherent talent. There are lots of beginner sketchers of all ages participating all over the world so don’t be shy!
For the 39th SketchCrawl, I have decided to make a day of it and put my sketches to work for a fantastic cause. I will follow Enrico’s lead and will sketch and do my own little marathon and sketch all day. I will post each drawing on my webpage and Facebook, and all sketches will be for sale. I will be donating 50% of all the proceeds made from the tomorrow’s sketches directly to a foundation I support, impossible2Possible (i2P). To learn more about i2P check out my blog post “Inspiring People - Ray Zahab”.
Hope to see all you sketchers tomorrow!
Happy Drawing!
Greg
