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Two views of the Lachine Canal
How fortunate that Urban Sketchers Montreal picked the nicest day of the year so far for our April outing. When we met around 10 a.m. it was looking like it might just be the perfect spring day and as...
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St Joseph’s Oratory
I hope everyone has been able to take advantage of the great weather and do some sketching. This is mine from yesterday at the foot of St Joseph’s Oratory. Besides the obvious architectural features,...
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A preview
Although our Sunday sketching got post-poned until next weekend, I did manage to get a sketch of the tam tams this Sunday. There is a lot to sketch on the site – the statue, from many angles, people,...
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Where’s Waldo?
From yesterday’s sketching at Place d’Armes, I sketched the monument to Paul de Chomedey. Extra points if you can correctly identify the urban sketcher in the image…
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Postcard from Calgary
This was sketched along the Bow River. As you remember, it was only in June that the floods had the water almost touching the underside of the bridge (completely submerging that lower deck of...
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Summer sketches
I hope everyone is enjoying this last bit of summer, and with luck, getting a few more sketches in. This summer I managed to do some sketching at Marché Jean Talon – a location that has been on my...
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Twelve plus tax
I went to the market in Pointe Claire looking for the first signs of pumpkins to sketch. Even filled up a well in my palette with cadmium orange. But when I pulled in to my parking spot the rows of...
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Oratoire St. Joseph
There are so many drawing options at the Oratoire St. Joseph, or The Shrine as we used to call it as I was growing up. It’s the big green dome that you can see from almost everywhere in Montreal and...
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Painting & Eating ::: Peinture & bouffe
You little dumpling… So fluffy and endearing, floating on that sea of brown, appearing as a bloated whale. I won’t be interfering with your buoyancy. Won’t even be peering into the pan. I’m waiting...
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Sunday Sketching, Stewart Hall in Pointe-Claire on July 10th
On Sunday July 10th the Montreal Urban Sketchers have been invited to a Picnic Vernissage Day at Stewart Hall’s Cultural Centre in Pointe-Claire. Stewart Hall is situated in a gorgeous historic...
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