Urban sketching: Brussel Bad - Bruxelles les bains

Last week we went sketching in Brussels...on the beach of Brussels!! A real urban beach is installed along the Canal of Brussels. People come to have a drink, eat something, dance, enjoy music... the ideal place to sketch people!!

 

for the ones that wonder what's going on in that sketch... it's a couple, the girl is lying in his arms, her hand rest ons his stomach... I wanted to sketch him, but a flamenco dance started and they jumped up!... and me too...

The yellow house in the middle will be destroyed soon... a pitty, it's the only one with a soul...

Charleroi

Veerle Vercruysse organised a sketchday in Charleroi, that is a big industry town. But almost all big factories are closed down. There's a lot of unemployment and visable poverty. We met with Nicolas Buissart who brought us to a beautiful sketh location. 

Nicolas  organises safaris in his town and he can show you his home like you have never seen it before!! A real recommendation!

http://www.charleroiadventure.com/index.php?page=home

(pictures: veerle vercruysse)

Place Ste Catherine, Brussels, Miriam's last day in Brussels... no better way to wish her all the best than with a sketchcrawl. We're going to miss her!!!

Place Ste Catherine

Maison du spectacle, La Bellone

Urban sketching in Oostende

My husband and I went to Ostend for two days and stayed in the magnificent but very old (and in need of some DIY) Thermae Palace, opened in 1933.

This is the thermae Palace from the beach

this is the frontside of the Thermae Palace  with view on the Wellington race-track, built in 1947

Sketchcrawl in Blankenberge, at the Belgian coast

Last week I took the train to the belgian coast, this sketch is made during the first 10 minute train ride to Louvain

This was an old couple in red on the train to Blankenberge

Herman Dewit invited us for a sketchcrawl in Blankenberge, at the Belgian coast. There were de harbourfeasts.

He's a gifted watercolourartist.

With a bunch of friends they started a big project and made this replica of an old fishingboat, the 'scute' The idea started in the garden of Herman.

the lighthouse and harbour of Blankenberge

The beginning of a new project, restoring an old rescueboat.

Blankenberge has some beautiful art nouveau houses

Urban skething in Thorn, The Netherlands

Kunstroute 2012 in Tremelo

The last weekend of April and the frist weekend of May, we organised a 'kunstroute' in Tremelo (an art-walk?) We didn't have the best of weather but luckely it didn't rain. Lot's of people visited us and they were very pleased with what they saw. We had a corner with sketchbooks of two art-academies and we had our Urban Sketchers-Belgium corner.

The second saturday it was very cold, so I had the time to sketch...

Our urban sketchers corner...

Gérard Michel and Fabien Denoel came over from Liège.

Outside in the garden you could see the wooden art work of Koen Wisse and we had a café with home made pancakes and pastry.

Thanks to all USK-members that participated: Miriam, Gérard, Fabien, Cato, Geert, Rita, Pascal, Jan...