Urban Sketchers Moscow

Sketching David - Pushkin Museum, Jan 28th

2012-01-31T00:05:00.000-08:00

Traffic Jam

2012-01-25T10:26:00.000-08:00

34th Sketchcrawl Moscow

2012-01-21T08:00:00.000-08:00

Dear Moscow Sketchers,

The 34th Sketchcrawl was a success. Thank you all for the good spirit. This was a great time, the best gift I could have to celebrate my birthday! Miguel

Sketchcrawl Moscow, January 21st.

2012-01-20T05:31:00.000-08:00

Time 11:00 o'clock
Place: Coffee Mania at Bolshaia Nikitskaia Ul. 13, besides Tchaikovski Conservatorium.
Tables 26 and 27

Sketchcrawl Moscow January 21st

2012-01-14T08:28:00.000-08:00

Dear Moscow Sketchers,
I am looking for partners to participate of a Skethcrawl, next weekend, january 21st.
Please post your availability !
Regards,
Miguel

Red Square, January 8th, afternoon

2012-01-10T06:59:00.000-08:00

2011-12-29T12:00:00.000-08:00

Sadovoe/Садовое кольцо

These were made before the snow has covered the streets. I believe the city is all white now.

Weekend market near "Gavana" movie theatre/Рынок выходного дня рядом с к-т"Гавана"

Garage center

Moscow subway, Arbatskaya/ Метро, Арбатская

Sketching at the Museum of Private Collections. Moscow, december 18th.

2011-12-19T12:32:00.000-08:00

last news

2011-11-23T02:41:00.000-08:00

ink and brush

I always plan to sketch an interior when I go to the GUM. And usually it just too crowded and I end up with some tiny story.

Звездный бульвар

2011-09-25T09:03:00.000-07:00

Новодмитровская улица

2011-09-25T08:57:00.000-07:00

Rostokino sketch

2011-09-10T08:56:00.000-07:00

Quick sketch in oil of Rostokino district in Moscow. Very windy :)

Summer in Moscow

2011-08-08T04:46:00.000-07:00

Sushchevsky val

In Moscow I have finally had some summer days. It makes me want to add more colors into my sketches.

Bolshoy Ordinsky pereulok, Zamoskvorechie

Zemlyanoy val, Kurskaya

Making a bouquet of the street lamps

Patriarch Proudi

2011-08-01T06:13:00.000-07:00

This watercolor was done at Patriarch Proudi, in a sunny morning of june.

32nd Sketchcrawl

2011-07-19T14:38:00.000-07:00

This Saturday is a sketchcrawl day.
I am going to be at the Afisha's picnic (children's playground) around eleven and then will sketch in the city. Is anyone up to sketch together?

Old Powerhouse in Moscow

2011-05-30T12:53:00.001-07:00

urban patterns

2011-05-27T07:39:00.000-07:00

it's interesting where the majority of city's population lives all over the world...

Садовники.

2011-05-22T23:05:00.000-07:00

Transmission - По проводам

2011-03-27T13:09:00.000-07:00

В окрестностях Ярославского шоссе под ЛЭП.

Fur hats

2011-02-16T04:07:00.000-08:00

It's so sunny outside but at -20 degrees Celsius I am able to sketch only indoors.

in a subway

2010-12-21T12:52:00.000-08:00

2010-12-18T04:46:00.000-08:00

дом с проводами в Архангельском переулке.

Rostokino Street Lights

2010-12-13T09:05:00.001-08:00

Sretenka

2010-12-03T00:56:00.000-08:00

Sretenka, a street in the center of Moscow, looks like it was eaten by sign-boards.

call for sketchcrawl

2010-11-14T01:17:00.000-08:00

Hey moskovits,
would you like to join me for sketching next week? Айда рисовать на следующей неделе!

2010-09-07T03:44:00.001-07:00

summer sketches

moscow metro station парк победы

2010-08-26T05:17:00.000-07:00

Кремль с моста.
Kremlin.

Улица Красной Сосны

2010-08-25T09:56:00.000-07:00

Вечер неподалеку от улицы Красной Сосны.

Meredith's drawings

2010-08-11T04:41:00.000-07:00

Moscow, Begovaya

Meredith lives in the United States outside Washington DC. She is an illustrator specializing in on-site drawings. Last summer she went to Russia to make drawings. Check out her Russia set on flickr.

Moscow, Komsomolskaya

Most of the pictures in the Russia set were made in Moscow, but there are also a few from places like Vladimir, Suzdhal, and Novgorod.

Vladimir

Novgorod kitchen

"I really enjoyed traveling in Russia, I liked the energy and the mishmash of older and modern things that I found there." writes Meredith

2010-08-03T02:37:00.000-07:00

Moremoney concert in SquatCafe
Moscow

2010-08-01T14:28:00.000-07:00

open air festival in moscow 31/07/2010

July 31st is a sketchcrawl day

2010-07-30T00:13:00.000-07:00

Check out Moscow thread on sketchcrawl forum. Anna Ponomareva will be sketching on Afisha's picknick.
Looking forward to see Mocow in your sketches!

subway

2010-07-24T07:24:00.000-07:00

Moskovits, there a nice chance to meet and sketch together. The 31st of July is a skechcrawl day. If you want to participate, you can find each other on sketchcrawl's forum or here.

2010-07-17T06:34:00.000-07:00

Лекция в Стрелкe, 16/07/2010
A lecture in Strelka, 16/07/2010

Воронцово Поле

2010-07-12T08:35:00.000-07:00

Indian summer in Moscow

2010-07-05T04:39:00.000-07:00

метро Академическая

2010-06-29T00:30:00.000-07:00

Ho Chi Minh square.

on a way Berlin>Moscow

2010-06-24T01:33:00.000-07:00

2010-06-14T14:24:00.000-07:00

А это мой университет, в котором меня научили разным очень страшным штукам.
Орджоникидзе, д. 3.

That's my university where I learned a lot of scary stuff.
Moscow, Ordzhonikidze str., 3.

2010-06-13T06:23:00.000-07:00

I live near the railway. /Рядом с моим домом проходят электрички савеловского направления и аэроэкспрессы.

business lunch

2010-06-13T02:52:00.000-07:00

Moscow yard.

2010-06-08T10:31:00.001-07:00

В своем дворе.

Sretensky Boulevard

2010-05-29T10:49:00.001-07:00

It would be a total pleasure to sit and sketch there if not this fluffy white stuff from famous Moscow poplars. By the end I looked like a Snowman (or Snowgirl?)

Yantarny Lane

2010-05-08T10:17:00.000-07:00

Izumrudnaya street

2010-04-24T06:56:00.000-07:00

One more mid-20th-century quite corner of Moscow street. This house was built in 1955 which is mentioned at the top.

Moscow Yard

2010-04-17T06:09:00.001-07:00

Mid-century style yard in Moscow. Quick sketch with ink pen and watercolors.

sketching in airport

2010-04-02T04:07:00.000-07:00

Vnukovo

2010-04-01T04:37:00.000-07:00

Women sitting on a bench. summer, 2009./Лавка на моем дворе, с балкона)

people in a trolley bus

2010-03-26T15:51:00.000-07:00

I drew almost all the people in a trolley-bus when we have stucked in a traffic jam

Adventures of Italians in Russia

2010-03-23T01:07:00.000-07:00

cafe Volkonsky, Sretenka

2010-03-21T12:55:00.000-07:00

Moscow metro 2008.

2010-03-19T11:31:00.000-07:00

check out 'Catch the moment' set by Gleb Solntsev

2010-03-17T14:14:00.000-07:00

A woman walking in Stoleshniki, Moscow

2010-03-04T05:39:00.000-08:00

Does anyone from Moscow wants to sketch together?
Take a look on what we have done in Berlin (link)
Я сейчас в Москве и буду рада встретиться вместе порисовать. А по ссылке можно посмотреть, как мы рисовали в Берлине

Moscow University

2010-02-26T02:32:00.000-08:00

Ink and watercolour sketch of Moscow University (built in 1953). This is one of the eight "Stalin skyscrapers" in Moscow and represents a city within the city with completely independent infrastructure.

2010-01-17T11:52:00.000-08:00

In a cafe on Maroseika,
November 2009

Kazansky railway station + bus terminal

2010-01-14T12:22:00.001-08:00

Andronikov Monastery

2010-01-13T09:15:00.000-08:00

Andronikov monastery is one of the oldest in Moscow, dated back in 1357. It was named after its first abbot Andronik and is famous by fresco paintings by Andrey Rublev who lived there as a monk and some believe he had been buried there.

Indian ink on bristol plate, 21x31 cm, 2009.

St. Adrian and Natalya Church, Moscow

2010-01-10T08:37:00.000-08:00

This candy-like church of St. Adrian and Natalya in Moscow was built in 1916. This architectural style is called Novgorod-Byzantine, a mixture of Russian and Byzantine features. I think it looks the most beautiful in winter, on a white snow background.

Ink and watercolour.

Эта симпатичная церковь Святых мучеников Адриана и Натальи (честно говоря, я не помню, кто и за что их мучали :) в Бабушкине, Москва, построена в 1916 г. Стиль называется новгородско-византийский и очень красиво смотрится зимой на фоне белого снега.

Тушь, акварель.

two strudels

2009-12-12T12:28:00.001-08:00

Waiting in Coffein cafe, Moscow

Sketchcrawl in Berlin

2009-12-10T12:10:00.000-08:00

video by Fabrice Renicci. While we were sketchcrawling in Berlin this November he made this short movie. Maybe it will encourage some of moscovits to go out for sketching.
Drawings of the participants you can see here
More about Sketchcrawl

Пока мы слонялись по Берлину и рисовали, Фабрис снимал эту короткометражку. Может быть, она воодушевит кого-то из москвичей выйти на улицы порисовать.
Рисунки участников в статике можно посмотреть здесь, а информацию о Sketchcrawl прочитать здесь.

Italy

2009-12-09T01:42:00.000-08:00

Gleb Solntsev sketching on the trip to Italy.

strings

2009-12-05T04:23:00.001-08:00

Vnukovo airport

2009-12-03T07:18:00.001-08:00

Urban Sketchers celebrate one year of drawing around the world

2009-11-03T01:26:00.000-08:00

A year after making its debut in November 2008, the Urban Sketchers group blog has drawn more than 1 million visits and established a network of hundreds of members in more than 50 countries.

From Venice to San Francisco, Greece to Bhutan, readers of the blog can travel vicariously through the thousands of drawings posted by 100 invited correspondents. Admire a breathtaking 360-degree panoramic of Liège, Belgium, drawn from a roof. Take in a driver's view of Bangkok traffic or the atmosphere of a flea market in Mauritania. It's all captured by the artists drawing scenes from their daily lives on location in cities across the globe. Sketches from concerts, airports, cafés or even cemeteries, show the world one drawing at a time, as the Urban Sketchers motto goes.

A sister group on flickr, the popular image-sharing site, has attracted more than 2,000 members and inspired people to draw their surroundings and share their sketches online. "It was amazing to discover other people doing the same thing," says Omar Jaramillo, an urban sketcher in Catania, Italy. "Since I have been in the group I have learnt a lot from other fellow sketchers. You get a lot of feedback and inspiration from the community."

"Urban Sketchers has been my homepage since Spring 2009. It has changed the way I look at the world — everywhere I look now, I think about how I could draw it!" said Isabelle Laliberté, a member in London.

Looking ahead to the coming year, Urban Sketchers founder Gabriel Campanario intends to formalize the project as a nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting the artistic, storytelling and educational value of location drawing. "As a nonprofit, we'll raise money to give grants and scholarships to artists," said Campanario, a Seattle-based journalist and illustrator. "We also aim to do an annual book and organize an international meetup every one or two years."

Urban Sketchers by the numbers

100 correspondents.
More than 3,500 blog posts with drawings from 56 different countries.
More than 3,000 blog subscribers.
More than 2,000 members on sister flickr group.
Nearly 20,000 drawings on flickr.

25th sketchcrawl in Moscow

2009-10-19T14:28:00.000-07:00

November 21st - give yourself a day to draw!
It has been five years of sketchcrawling. ''On November 21st 2004 we launched and held the first ever global drawing marathon ... five years later here we are ready to celebrate with our 25th World Wide SketchCrawl!!!
Let's make this one the biggest baddest Crawl ever!'' writes Enrico Casarosa

If you are willing to participate you can find more people from Moscow on sketchcrawl forum or just sketch everything that interests you together with your friends and share your works.

Need more information?

See the last results on map
How to participate to a World Wide Sketchcrawl
About Sketchcrawl - link to website

2009-10-19T00:03:00.001-07:00

Moscow cafe, sketch made by Gleb Solntsev (click to enlarge)

2009-10-13T14:39:00.001-07:00

Macy Gray on a concert in Moscow and a sleeping couple in a subway on the way home.

USk Moscow Begins

2009-10-11T00:35:00.000-07:00

Hi everyone!
I'm really glad that we're starting - due to tireless activity of a talented sketcher and a wonderful person Olga Prunikova - our very own tiny yet noble USk Moscow blog (uh, I hate my deadlines, wish I could be more active in the blog, too; I promise, I will).
As Gabi said before, Urban Sketchers Global brings people from all sorts of distant places, but local sketching sites are more of help for those who live in one place, a club to share ideas, to settle new sketching locations, to see what's your city look like to fellow sketchers. I fully agree with that, and I sincerely hope, that our Moscow community will grow and I'm looking forward to seeing lots of wonderful drawings here. Welcome, USk Moscow! - Zhenia.

Some sketches reporting Moscow's Golden Autumn:

M. Novye Cheremyshki

ul. Komarova

Meet Gleb Solntsev on Usk Moscow!

2009-10-09T11:48:00.001-07:00

Gleb is an artist and illustrator who lives in Moscow and travels a lot. See Gleb's portfolio and
amazing travel sketches from Goa

Kolchugin, may 2009

business lunch

2009-10-07T06:21:00.000-07:00

Moscow, Stoleshniki

2009-09-22T12:06:00.000-07:00

At first I have made two sketches on the Mayakovskaya subway station. It's my favourite among the stations of the Moscow subway (frankly, the only one that triggers nice feelings about the subway). It's full of harmony; I would like it even without Daineka's mosaics.

On Bolshaya Sadovaya, near Bulgakov's house, a huge black cat walked between the cars. Amazing coincidence; maybe he works in Bulgakov's house.

Spiridonovka, 17. The fairytale-like house was built by architect Shehtel for Savva Morozov:

A bit more surrealistic: the house covered by golden curtains on Spiridonovka, 4. I have no idea what the curtains are for. I just love Moscow)

Stepan Ryabushinsky's house.
A staircase in form of a wave and a jelly fish lamp:

That's what I drew this day.
For more results from this Sketchcrawl, go on the forum, there are works from more than 90 cities.

2009-09-20T08:43:00.000-07:00

Sketch by Veronica Kalacheva, an illustrator from Moscow.
Take a look at flickr set., amazing watercolors there.
Welcome to urbansketchers, Veronica!

Sketchcrawl #24 is coming!

2009-09-17T01:58:00.000-07:00

September 19th is a sketchcrawl day! Sketchcrawl is a sketching marathon around the world. Visit www.sketchcrawl.com, find sketches of people around the world on forum and, of course, you are welcome to participate in a sketchcrawl in Moscow.

Welcome to USk Moscow

2009-09-15T21:36:00.000-07:00

I'm really excited to announce this new USk blog for Moscow. Olga Prudnikova, an artist who goes back and forth between Berlin and the Russian capital, will be coordinating the effort. Looking forward to seeing and learning more about Moscow through the eyes of the talented contributors who'll be joining the blog soon.

Gabriel Campanario
USk founder
Seattle (USA)