Hello, S&D fans!

It has been too long since I posted, mostly because I was trying to cram science and algebra knowledge into the heads of uninterested 6th and 7th graders. I’ve learned (or re-learned, I should say) more about gravity and friction and point-slope formulas and intercepts than I ever really wanted to. ANYWAY. It’s June now, and SCHOOL IS OUT FOR SUMMER! While this is bad for my wallet it is excellent for my sketchbook, because it is SKETCHCRAWL TIME, PEOPLE!

Something about this reminds me of Harold and the Purple Crayon

You’ve heard of PubCrawls/BarCrawls, where one travels from place to place getting progressively drunker. SketchCrawls have the same concept, but replacing drunkenness with crippling hand pains. Or, you know, adding it onto the drunkenness. You can go it alone (which is sad to do with a PubBarCrawl) or in a group, visiting places you frequent or areas previously unknown. Enrico Casarosa, the founder of the SketchCrawl, puts it like this:

The basic idea: to record nonstop everything I could around me with my pencil and watercolors. A drawn journal filled with details ranging from the all the coffee I drank to the different buses I took. After a whole day of drawing and walking around the city the name seemed quite fitting: ‘SketchCrawl’ – a drawing marathon.

Bicycles and puppies; two of my favorite things!

Drawings can be super fancy or quick thumbnails, black and white or full-blown Technicolor Marvels done in fancy fancy sketchbooks or on napkins you steal from each location you visit. Enrico Casarosa, the founder of the SketchCrawl, has compiled a list of suggested materials in this here fancy drawing:

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For more information visit the Official SketchCrawl Site. The next planned worldwide SC is on July 31st, 2010, so you can visit the forums to meet up with other Crawlers or just go for it now!

There’s even an official t-shirt! That is crazy!

<3 Ambrrr

PS – Check out this Flickr stream of photos tagged “SketchCrawl.” They’re outstanding!

PPS – Here’s one more for the road:

This is simply bananas. BANANAS!

All photos from the official SketchCrawl website.

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