Pedro Loureiro Pedro Loureiro

The stories of public realm objects

The 9th International Urban Sketchers Symposium in Porto is getting closer. Today, participants will get to choose the workshops they’ll be attending in the Summer. In the stories of public realm objects we’ll find out what tales do these ubiquitous everyday objects have to share, and what we can learn from them.

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Pedro Loureiro Pedro Loureiro

In the Symposium team of instructors!

The 9th International Urban Sketchers Symposium is building up momentum! Registration passes for participants were released and sold out, correspondents are soon to be selected and, last week, I was fortunate enough to be selected as one of the 36 workshop instructors. Feels good to be in a list of so many talented sketchers and artists I came to admire these past years.

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Pedro Loureiro Pedro Loureiro

Porto, sketch by sketch

The charming city in the north is the European Best Destination for the third time in a five-year span. But what has been making it so special for us, sketchers, in the past few months since the national Urban Sketchers gathering in 17-18th of September, is the work that was being done to publish the resulting set of sketches in the book “Porto por/by Urban Sketchers”.

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