Saturday 16 March 2024

Join us for the International Urban Sketchers Week 2024

From 1- 7 May every year, we will be showcasing the activities of our community and the many different ways that urban sketching brings people together & changes lives around the world.


International Urban Sketchers Week is a global celebration of on-location drawing. Urban Sketchers Luxembourg will start an exhibition of sketches made in the Musée de Calèches Grande-Duchesse Charlotte . The exhibition will be in the museum, more information will follow.


Anyone anywhere can take part in International Urban Sketchers Week! Join us and use the hashtag #uskweek2024 to share your sketching stories – let’s show the world what urban sketching means to you!

Thursday 7 March 2024

Ein, Zwei, Polizei… Results of the March meeting of USkLux at the Policemusee

 Our visit to the police museum was a real discovery. We were warmly welcomed by a very friendly policeman, one of the volunteers who run the museum. 




The large sous-terrain contains a wealth of props illustrating the history of Luxembourg's police and gendarmes. But there are also a large number of objects from foreign corps.



You can sniff the atmosphere of the afternoon in this youtube video 

Quite a lot of people turned up, eager to to draw - familiar faces and some newcomers too (welcome to our group!)

It was extremely difficult to choose an item or scene to sketch. Way too much choice! Shall we sketch a remarkable scene, a mannekin in a fantastic costume or a shiny detail?

Here the (partial) harvest of the afternoon. It does not show all the sketches made that afternoon as some participants had to leave early.





And here some individual results:



Pedro

Marcelle



Ivan

Samantha

Samantha

Cristina



Francis

Elisabeth



Leen

Leen




Our sympathetic host volunteered to take the group photo:



See you next month!


Leen Van Bogaert








Sunday 25 February 2024

March 2024 meeting of Urban Sketchers Luxembourg at the Policemusee


(FR)


Pour notre réunion de mars, nous allons dessiner quelque chose d'inhabituel ! Nous plongons dans l'univers de Luc Capitani et Elsa Ley et nous allons explorer l'histoire des services de police au Luxembourg au Policemusée ( 
 Remontez le temps de 1797 à 2000 avec cette collection d'environ 520 casquettes de police, 80 uniformes, 2.500 insignes de police, diverses photos, films, documents historiques, etc. Sur une surface de 220 m², le musée donne un aperçu de la gendarmerie et de la police du Luxembourg et du reste du monde.

Rendez-vous le SAMEDI 2 MARS 2024 à 14h à l’entrée du Policemusée, 51 route d’Arlon (Centre Culturel) à Capellen.

(EN)

At our March meeting, we will draw something unusual! We will dive into the world of Luc Capitani and Elsa Ley and explore the history of police services in Luxembourg at the Policemusée (

Go back in time from 1797 to 2000 with this collection of about 520 police caps, 80 uniforms, 2,500 police badges, various photos, films, historical documents and more. In an area of 220 m², the museum gives an overview of the gendarmerie and police of Luxembourg and the rest of the world.
Let’s meet on SATURDAY 2 MARCH at 2pm at the entrance of the Policemusée, 51 route d’Arlon (Centre Culturel) in Capellen.



Sunday 11 February 2024

Fabulous results from the February sketchcrawl at Sofitel Grand Ducal

Our February sketch meeting on a grey Sunday in February was a great success! A large group of happy urban sketchers spent the afternoon in the bar L'Observatoire, overlooking Luxembourg city. The bar is on the 8th floor of the Sofitel Grand Ducal. Thanks to the barman Antonio and his team for their patience with us taking over the bar!

We sketched the view from the large windows as you can see below:

Elisabeth

Francis

Roger

Simone

Vanessa

We also included other sketchers in our drawings: 

Ebba

Kasra




Mauro


Ebba


Here you can see a bit of our glorious view:

Pol



This sketch captures perfectly the February weather:


Leen


Other things in the bar and hotel also caught our attention:

Cristina

Ebba



Ekaterina


Isabelle

More beautiful views of Luxembourg below:

Daniela



Isabelle

Leen

Marcelle

Mauro

Daniela


Ebba

Gérard



All you need to be an urban sketcher:

Pol



Here is our friendly group of Urban Sketchers Luxembourg! Feel free to join us for the next meeting in March!



Saturday 13 January 2024

Discovering the Nationalmusée um Fëschmaart

A large group of sketchers came for the first sketch meeting on 2024. We were in the national museum of archaeology, history and art. We spread out in the underground galleries, which are used to display the very significant archaeological collections of the museum. From prehistorical items to Roman times!


By Leen, seen in the photo below while sketching this portrait!


Vanessa sketching. Scroll down to see her final work!





Here comes a selection of all the drawings that were made this day in the museum!


Vivi

Veronica


Erik

Sabrina




Alex

Alex

Marcelle

Marcelle

Luc

Luc

Leen

Lawrence

Aleksandar


Lawrence

Vanessa

Ebba

Aleksandar

Cristina



Ebba

And you can see many more sketches in the videos below! Visit also our Instagram USkLuxembourg or Facebook accounts.