Before we continue with our Scottish adventure, I just wanted to let you know (those who live in or near Davis anyway) that I will be organizing a sketchcrawl this Saturday, August 12, in downtown Davis. I’ve been organizing sketchcrawl / sketching events called “Let’s Draw Davis” since October 2010, on and off; I’ve had a fair amount of time off, for one reason or other, in the past few years, and I actually can’t completely remember when the last one I organized actually was. A couple of years I think. I didn’t organize any while I was coaching that first season of AYSO United club soccer, and then after I stepped down as coach I still spent a lot of my weekends watching my son’s games, and just didn’t get around to setting any sketching events up. I got a bit shy. Fortunately, other urban sketchers in Davis (Marlene Lee mostly) have been running Let’s Draw Davis as monthly meetings, often on Sundays in Central Park, and the Facebook group seems to have been pretty active. (‘Facebook’, something else I hadn’t looked at for years). Well, I had a free Saturday coming up and decided that now would be a good time for me to start getting out there again. I met up one evening in London while I was back with the London Urban Sketchers, and that was really nice, looking at everyone’s sketchbooks at the end. I’m hoping to take more of an active part in these again, and will try to organize one in October for the new UC Davis school year too. This weekend though, in this hot summertime, we’ll have a morning sketchcrawl in the shady courtyards downtown. It’s summer so we may not et a lot of people, but if you fancy joining us for a bit of sketching, do come along.

DATE: Saturday August 12
TIME: 10:30am (start) – 1:00pm (finish)
LOCATION: Orange Court, E Street (start and finish at the same location)
FB EVENT PAGE: www.facebook.com/events/157365444045831

We will meet at 10:30am at Orange Court (129 E St), and then you can sketch about this part of downtown (by yourself or in a group as you prefer), before meeting up again at 1:00pm back in Orange Court to take a look at our sketchbooks.

All ages/levels are welcome, this is a fun informal way to meet other sketchers and take a look at our town through our sketchbooks. All you need is something to draw with and something to draw on. (And maybe something cold to drink in this hot summer weather…)

Maybe we’ll see you there?