dinosaurs, vintage cars and cool planes…

2 weeks ago, I participated to the first sketchkon in pasadena organized by the online school sketchbook skool.
imagine 500 hundreds sketchers together during 4 days listening to talks and participating to workshops about hundreds way to fill a sketchbook: urban sketching, lettering, food sketch, live drawing, reportage…
it was super inspiring, a pure dose of creativity meeting lots of old and new friends.
here are some of the sketches I managed to do during the convention, between my "all you can see" workshop, my 2 talks "my life in sketchbooks" and "lost poblenou: a record of change" and my "big head portrait" demo. that was quite a busy week-end.
I would never thank you enough koosje, danny and all the sketchbook skool team for putting together such a nice community!












while in LA, I enjoyed meeting the local urban sketchers such as stef kardos, shiho, virginia or phoebe… we met in zhorian's ranch and downtown:





and why not passing by denver, to teach at the university, meeting paul heaston and sketching dinosaurs?
quite colder then LA over there, I enjoyed the day at the denver museum…






to finaly had a few hours to kill at LAX airport.
thanks shiho for telling me about the proud bird restaurant. the perfect way to enjoy my last hours in the US.

grooarrr!

I'm on my way to the 8th international urban sketchers symposium in chicago.
I will teach how to sketch dinosaurs at the field museum, that host "sue": the largest, most complete, best preserved T.rex ever discovered. what a feast!

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the intrepid

air and space museum in nyc.

the guggenheim museum in nyc

smithsonian castle

stegosaurus

one of my favourite dinosaurs at the smithsonian national museum of natural history in washington dc.

lincoln memorial

enola gay

I did not know how to feel in front of "enola gay", the B-29 super fortress that dropped the first atomic weapon on hiroshima the 6th of august 1945. this big bird is lost into the multitude of planes in the museum, a short note telling its mission. I was shocked that most of the visitors were passing in front of it without any consideration - its place would be perhaps more appropriate in a memorial…

smithsonian

more from the air & space museum in washington dc.

smithsonian

air & space museum in washington dc.

a spaceship for real!

I sketch my first spaceship, it's like a child dream, yeah!
and discovery is not just a spaceship, it's the space shuttle that made the most earth-orbital missions, and spent a total of 365 days in space.
it's big, its skin is a mess of small pieces full of numbers, geometrical signs, textures… it looks like a handmade over scale model.
and how the hell could it fly back to earth, it's as aerodynamic as an iron.
anyway, I could have spent days and days sketching it, but the smithsonian air and space museum of washington dc was full of many other cool or legendary stuff - soon some more!

sketchcrawl with the nyc sketchers

I was lucky to sketch with some of the urban sketchers in nyc during my trip there last month.
we met on the high line in chelsea, which give a great view above the streets of manhattan's west side across a floating garden.

I love the advice that danielle gave me ;)


thanks veronica for making it happen!

by the way, it was great to meet greg for his birthday, cheers!