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Sketching with the Urban Sketchers at Keg & Case, St Paul, Minnesota

jimsketcher: Jim Lammers’ book, Capture the Moment: An Architect’s Guide to Travel Sketching is published by ORO Editions and can be ordered from Amazon. With sketches form around the world, this book takes you on a journey starting with the definition of sketching and an introduction to right-brain drawing. You get a discussion of black and white and color sketching with a focus on colored pencil as an. Perspective drawing is demystified and you then take side trips to understand shade and shadow, reflections, landscapes, streetscapes, sky and skyline. Jim was trained as an architect back when freehand sketching and perspective were an integral part of the curriculum. Jim guest lectures in the Architecture Program at Iowa State and teaches sketching at Marine Mills Craft School. An inveterate world traveler, persistent writer and relentless sketcher, Jim has been published in professional journals and on a number of websites. When not traveling, writing or teaching he enjoys working as arborist on his 18-acre farmstead in Minnesota.

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