Urban Sketchers

(image from Virginia Hein.  All Rights Reserved)

The good people at land8lounge tipped me off to Urban Sketchers, a great blog dedicated to sharing user-generated sketches from around the world.  As their website explains,

Urban Sketchers is a nonprofit organization dedicated to raising 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.

The site features an impressive stylistic diversity, and its content is updated daily for a regular dose of inspiration.  For LA residents, check out the work of Virginia Hein, one of the site's featured correspondents.  Virginia is a Pasadena-based toy designer, illustrator, and drawing and design instructor with a great collection of watercolors and sketches from around Los Angeles.  Her inspiration?  She is "drawn to places that feel like the “old” Los Angeles (which is relative of course!). I never tire of the effects of atmosphere (what some unkindly call smog!), the verticals of the palm trees and horizontals of freeways… and the many brush-covered hills."