August Sketch Group at the Peabody Hotel

Join us for our annual air-conditioned trek to the Peabody Hotel, Saturday, August 6 at 10:00 AM. We'll meet in the lobby, have some mimosas, sketch some ducks. See you there!

Three visits to the Peabody Hotel

Last Saturday, I met several urban sketchers on the roof of the Peabody Hotel. We drew all morning. It was the third time I have sketched at the Peabody. The first time I used only an ink pen. The second time I used an ink pen and some gray Faber-Castell artist pens. Last week I experimented with brown and blue Stabilo point 88 pens and a water brush that I got at the Art Center. I have been drawing in sketch books for over 40 years. I found out about the Memphis Urban Sketchers 3 years ago. Since then I have filled 20 more sketch books and gone to the Urban Sketchers Symposium in Barcelona. Today, I am going to become a real urban sketcher because I am posting some of my drawings on the internet for the first time. This is a big step for me because it is the first time I am connected to the internet. According to my son, this is due to my belief that the internet would damage my artistic soul, killing my desire to do anything but surf the web.  My son hopes I've overcome my fear and finally stepped into the 21st century.

where I entered the hotel

where the taxis wait

the lobby

drinking in the lobby

working in the lobby

meeting in the lobby

waiting for the ducks

looking up to the mezzanine

one half of the fountain

the other half of the fountain

looking down at the ducks from the mezzanine

on the roof looking toward Arkansas

on the roof looking toward the bridge