Felix Scheinberger, an author of six books on the art of urban sketching, including a beginner guide to watercolor sketching, has noticed that more people, tired of staring at computer screens ...

Claus Janssen, left, and Glenn Jansen, members of Port Townsend Urban Sketchers, sketch the fountain at Manresa Castle in Port Townsend. The group chooses a different location every month and meets at ...

Urban Sketchers Twin Cities meets regularly at coffee ... from pen and ink to gouache paint and watercolors. Seasoned sketchers may offer to sit with new participants, and some attendees bring ...

and art making. Sketching groups can be a couple of friends, or an international force. Urban Sketchers was started in 2007 by a journalist in Seattle, but grew to hundreds of chapters around the ...