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Rewind: Lapin’s journey from drawing Paris commuters to publishing more than 40 books

How do you launch a career as an independent reportage artist or professional urban sketcher?While still working as a graphic designer in Paris in his mid 20s, Lapin honed his drawing skills sketching subway commuters. He also tried to use as much of his vacation time “to go far away, usually alone with a sketchbook.”In […]

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Rewind: Marielle Durand on drawing inside the French Parliament and around her Paris 13 neighborhood

The guest of my January Live Zoom was Marielle Durand, an artist, author and urban sketcher based in Paris.Durand belongs to a very small group of artists who holds a special pass to draw inside the French Parliament, where she has been documenting political debates since October of 2022.We talked about many things during our 75-minute conversation, […]

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Rewind: Louis Netter on Reportage Drawing

Dear subscribers,It was a pleasure to host Irish-American artist and scholar Louis Netter during our December Live Zoom.Netter’s upcoming book, “Reportage Drawing: Vision and Experience” promises to be a must read for any artist and sketcher who wants to harness the full potential of observational drawing. The book is the culmination of the academic research he conducted […]

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