The mechanism of painting society camp, which requires a continuous sophistication on urban-sketching skills, is easy for everybody to follow. First, there is a stable source of income from the collective contribution of membership fees for hiring exhibition venues at City Hall or Central Library. Second, you do not need to care about the unpredictable game of contemporary-art award schemes that you must grasp the creative gimmick, as you just need to simply focus on the refinement of your landscape or urban descriptions. Third, the corresponding painting societies are pro-China which easily obtain fundings from the Mainland cultural authorities. Fourth, people no matter for whatsoever backgrounds can easily perceive the aesthetic pleasures from your artworks because they do not need to imagine or think at all. Firth, even though you do not have brilliant creative concepts all the time, you can still paint and produce artworks regularly. Sixth, urban sketchers can easily get the help from the press media for column-writing reports because the works easily connect with our daily basic-class livelihoods.
Moreover, the selected "urban sketching" masters tend to develop a wholesome communication with the district residences and commuters. They prefer a conservation of old heritages, whereas they do not mind practicing the liaison philosophies of Confucian ethics.
2. 「urban sketcher」之由來及定義
The Urban Sketchers movement was started on Flickr in 2007 by a Spanish
journalist Gabriel Campanario. In 2009 Campanario established Urban
Sketchers as a nonprofit organization. The Urban Sketchers Manifesto has been
translated into several languages …… Campanario started a group to support
and promote journalistic drawing depicting real life as it happens in front of
the artist.
The USk motto is “We show the world, one drawing at a time!”
A year later in 2008 Campanario created the Urban Sketchers blog.
Participation in the Urban Sketchers blog is by invitation and is limited to a
hundred artists. The term Urban Sketchers Correspondent was created.
Correspondents are invited by Campanario and commit to contribute
journalistic sketches on a regular basis. The sketches are accompanied by
stories providing a background for the sketch: when and where the sketch was
created and some details about content – words and narrative that go with
pictures. The Urban Sketchers blog gained popularity between 2008 and the
present, attracting hundreds and soon thousands of visitors daily.
In December 2009, Campanario established Urban Sketchers as a nonprofit
organization. A board of directors was elected. The organization’s task is to
raise the artistic, storytelling and educational value of location drawing,
promoting its practice and connecting people around the world who draw on
location where they live and travel.
3. 「urban sketcher」之由來及定義
Urban Sketchers has a manifesto
which reads:
1. We draw on location, indoors or out,
capturing what we see from direct
observation.
2. Our drawings tell the story of our
surroundings, the places we live and
where we travel.
3. Our drawings are a record of time and
place.
4. We are truthful to the scenes we
witness.
5. We use any kind of media and cherish
our individual styles.
6. We support each other and draw
together.
7. We share our drawings online.
8. We show the world, one drawing at a
time.
4. 「urban sketcher」之由來及定義
Urban Sketchers is a diverse group of people united by a passion for
sketching. Discussions, for example about supplies and materials, take
place when sketchers meet in real life or virtually.
Sketching in public creates opportunities for interaction. The majority of
these interactions are positive and good-natured. In some instances,
sketching in a café has produced a free coffee from a proprietor,
and on a rare occasion sketching produced an invitation to sketch
a cultural event that otherwise would be closed to an outsider. For
example, a group of aspiring musicians, Flon Flon en Musette, were
performing a street concert that was documented by an Urban Sketcher
who happened to be on site. The sketch then made it onto the face of
the group’s compilation CD and the sketcher was invited to a private
concert.
In 2011, Campanario published a book, The Art of Urban Sketching,
highlighting hundreds of the best Urban Sketchers members' work.
25. 慧惠:鍾情於油麻地果欄情懷
個人畫展
07/29/2018 - 09/17/2018
Vintage Shops with Love 講港情・繪小
店/ Eslite Spectrum Tsim Sha Tsui 誠品
生活尖沙咀店, Hong Kong
06/23/2018 - 7/22/2018
Ten Thousand Miles Ahead 前面尚有一
萬里/ The MUSE, Hotel Stage, Hong
Kong
12/02/2017- 12/30/2017
A Love Letter to Yau Ma Tei 給油麻地的
情書/ Kubrick, Hong Kong
08/13/2016- 08/28/2016
Vintage Shops with Love 講港情・小小
店/ Silver Stationery Shop 銀の文房具,
Hong Kong