Next Sketch Group - Saturday May 7th

Memphis Urban Sketchers - Next Sketch Group
Memphis Farmers Market and South Main Street
Saturday, May 7

Time for another sketch group with Memphis Urban Sketchers! There will be plenty of opportunities for you to join us at your leisure:
10:00 AM
Memphis Farmers Market
Meet behind the coffee stand on the north end. We plan to get some good early light, and will have plenty of food stalls, people and nearby architecture to sketch.
12:00 PM Meet back by the coffee stand to see everyone's sketches.

12:30 PM
Meet at the Arcade Restaurant for lunch and more sketching.
After lunch (or during if you don't care to have lunch) sketch around the intersection of South Main and GE Patterson.
2:00 PM Meet back in front of the Arcade to see everyone's sketches.

2:00 pm
Meet in front of the Arcade Restaurant.
Wander up South Main to Butler, making sure to sketch Ernestine & Hazel's and the firehouse at South Main and Butler.
4:00 PM Meet at South Main and Butler to see everyone's sketches.

Feel free to come and go as you please or stay for the whole day! There is a lot to draw down there. All skill levels are welcome, and participants are free to attend at your convenience. If you have any questions, leave a comment here or email me at e(at)elizabethalley(dot)com.

Sketching at Elmwood Cemetery Again

We met again at Elmwood last Saturday for sketching in glorious weather. I sketched these first couple to loosen up a bit.

























Watercolor



















After meeting back up with everyone to look at their sketches, I went back and made this sketch with graphite and colored pencils.

Memphis Urban Sketchers @ Elmwood Cemetery (2nd time)

This month (April) we went to Elmwood Cemetery again to sketch. It was a beautiful, warm day :) Great for sketching! I walked around to find something to sketch + this caught my eye. The epitaph said "Nannie Lucas":

(Pencil, Watercolor, Water soluble graphite)

For my next sketch I wanted to do an overall sketch with many tombstones:

(Pencil, Watercolor)

After that, it was time to meet back up to see everyone's sketches. It's always neat to see how others record + translate the same space you are in.

I brought my lunch + stayed for one more sketch. I loved the paired tombstones in this photo:

I decided to focus on the columns, tree + what appears to be a pile of books:

(micron pen, derwent inktense pencil, watercolor)

My last sketch was my favorite :) I'm glad I decided to stay + found a nice spot in the shade.

Sketching at Elmwood Cemetery Tomorrow!

Don't forget to come to Elmwood Cemetery to sketch tomorrow at 11. If it rains, we'll meet at the Trolley Stop Market at 704 Madison, but it is supposed to be sunny and 70, so I'll see you at Elmwood!

April Sketch Group - Saturday April 2

We're having another sketch group at Elmwood Cemetery!

Saturday, April 2, 11:00 AM til whenever

At Elmwood Cemetery - meet at the entrance

824 S. Dudley
From Lamar/Crump go south on Dudley, which ends at the entrance to Elmwood. If you're taking the interstate to get to Lamar, take 240 West and exit at Lamar.

If the weather is nice, I will probably pack a lunch and stay a few hours. Feel free to do the same.

Elmwood now has bicycles for rent! To reserve them email cookie@elmwoodcemetery.org

If you have any questions please leave a comment here.

Blue Plate Cafe by Mary Jo

This was Mary Jo Karimnia's first time out with the Memphis Urban Sketchers. She did this great drawing of her soup cup and plate. See more of her work here and here.

Blue Plate Cafe

We had fun sketching at the Blue Plate Cafe when it was so cold and rainy out.























Yummy yummy blueberry pancakes.












































Rick and Chandler

March Sketch

We met at Court Square this month. It was rainy and cold so we didn't get to sketch outside like we had hoped :( We sketched at the Blue Plate Cafe instead. We all sat at one big round table. I had already eaten breakfast, but I got a cup of coffee & sketched it. The table cloth pattern was fun to sketch:

(hand book watercolor journal + prismacolor col-erase pencil in brown)

Then I sketched a tea bag, creamer & sugar packet:

(moleskine pocket sketchbook + mechanical pencil)

My last sketch was of a salt shaker:

(moleskine pocket sketchbook + Faber-Castell Pitt Artist Pens + Lamy fountain pen w/ noodlers ink + a borrowed sharpie pen?)

I wished I had gotten to sketch this:

Maybe another day??? :)

Sketching Indoors on a Rainy Day

The plan was to sketch around downtown, but it was cold AND rainy, so we went in the Blue Plate Cafe instead.



























Lindsay working on a coffee cup.


























Everything.





















Mmmmm... blueberry waffles.


























Sujata drawing a honey bear with watercolors.





















Jordan drawing lemons.





















This is where we were going to sketch - at Court Square.





















This is where we went instead - they were very hospitable to our group!

If It Rains This Saturday...

Bring an umbrella! And meet under the pavilion at Court Square.