What I Learned From Shari Blaukopf

The Urban Sketchers community will be celebrating their 10 year anniversary this November 11, 2017.

The Urban Sketchers (USk) movement was started on Flickr in 2007 by journalist Gabriel ("Gabi") Campanario.

If you follow urban sketchers on social media you will know that there are quite a few sketchers that really stand out as exceptional and Montreal artist/urban sketcher Shari Blaukopf is one of them for sure!

So I made a request through USk Education Director Mário Linhares  to have Shari put on a workshop (the same workshop that she had previously given at the 2017 Urban Sketcher's Symposium in Chicago) called "Trees and the City"in Ottawa in September.

Hilarious Artist Statement Generator

Thanks to Julie Oakley (http://julieoakley.blogspot.ca/), I had great fun this morning playing with a hilarious artist statement generator.

You can give it a try here: http://500letters.org/form_15.php (Thanks Jasper Rigole)

Source: Cartoonstock.com https://www.cartoonstock.com/directory/a/artist_statement.asp

"Happy are the painters, for they shall not be lonely"

My Monday inspiration came to me this morning by way of  Tara Leaver's  email that started with this lovely quote:

”Happy are the painters, 
for they shall not be lonely. 

Light and colour, peace and hope, 

will keep them company to the end of the day."  

Winston Churchill