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Sketching Anywhere

The third Urban Sketching post of the summer aims to take us around the world. If you followed our post about sketching New Brunswick: The Campus and The Town, you are already familiar with the idea. Urban Sketching is a way to create shared experiences by documenting, collecting, and sharing drawings from our daily life. … Read More

Sketching New Brunswick: The Town

If you have never visited Rutgers – New Brunswick, we have some sketches for you to fill in the blanks.  The galleries of Sketching New Brunswick presented New Brunswick in Sketches: The Town with images featuring examples of Urban Sketching, a way to create shared experiences by documenting, collecting, and sharing drawings from our campus and daily life as we … Read More

Persimmons… friend or foe?

In November of 2009 a boy named Brady invited me out to his farm home in Creal Springs, Illinois, which is roughly 45 mins outside of Carbondale, Illinois (SIUC) where I lived at the time, and where we met. Brady’s home was a natural paradise and plant lover’s dream as the farm had once been … Read More

Cite Right – Images

Next in the series is a tough one: images. As noted in the Finding images research guide, the last thing to worry about while writing a paper or preparing a presentation at three in the morning is the credibility and authenticity of the images. Luckily, there is help from Rutgers University Libraries to find and … Read More

Urban Sketching Rutgers New Brunswick

Join a group of talented artists at Rutgers to explore an urban sketching project, a collaboration between the Department of Landscape Architecture at SEBS and the Rutgers University Art Library. Urban Sketching is a movement created in 2007 by Seattle journalist and illustrator, Gabrile Campanario. Although similar to plein air painting (to paint outdoors), a … Read More