Friday, 7 April 2023

April 2023 meeting of Urban Sketchers Luxembourg at the Luxembourg Learning Centre in Belval/Esch

 On 2 April 2023 the Urban Sketchers Luxembourg met to sketch at the magnificent university library in Belval/Esch - the Luxembourg Learning Centre.

You can see the results of that fine afternoon in this short film  (thank you Ekaterina for the initial film shots, and thank you all participants for your sketches).

The library is an extraordinary place to sketch, inside and outside. Maybe a Sunday afternoon during the Easter holidays is not really the best time to see the library in full swing. But we could appreciate the calm atmosphere to concentrate on our sketching. Definitely a place to go back!

Here the sketches:

Leonor

Leen

Sylvain

Agnes

Manoel

Elif

Jean-Pol

Leen

Ekaterina

Elif

Beliza

Leen

Malou

Pedro

Isabelle

Gérard

The library closes at 5 pm on Sundays, so we went for a drink&share&draw at the Monument’s cafe. We mostly did the drink&share part though…;-)

See you at our next meeting on 7 May!


Leen

Sunday, 12 March 2023

Sketchcrawl in the old fortress Thüngen - visiting the Dräi Eechelen museum

The old fortress of Luxembourg is classified as a UNESCO world heritage. The only remaining fortress outside of the old city is Fort Thüngen that today hosts the Dräi Eechelen museum. We sketched inside and outside the museum that contains items and documents from the history of Luxembourg. 


Katia sketched the building... 


...as did Lawrence...


...and Pedro



Vanessa sketched old Luxembourg


The gruesome guillotine caught the attention!

Annie


Katia


Marcelle


The museum had a lovely collection of old uniforms, you can see some in Marcelle's drawing above. More are here:

Kasra


Sylvain

Our young sketchers!


More views from the museum:

Ebba



Lawrence



Jean-Pol (and Veronica)

Alex

Ebba


Ebba




Roger





Alex, in the underground tunnels the 'casemats'


Vanessa

Lawrence

We rounded off with a drink at the nearby Mudam museum. Thanks to all who came (around 20 people, 2023 record!).







Monday, 27 February 2023

Next sketchcrawl is 5 March @14 at the Dräi Eechelen museum

For our March sketchcrawl, we will meet at the Drëi Eechelen museum inside the Fort Thüngen, behind Mudam.


When: Sunday March 5 at 14-17H.

The museum is impressively big with a permanent exhibition and a temporary one, celebrating the first 10 years of the museum. You can go up in the tower and out on the terrace on the roof of the building, or down in the basement to walk in the old tunnels under the fort. The building from outside is also beautiful to sketch, have a look at Pedro's sketch below.


Pedro

Some of the items in the  museum

On the roof top


Inside the museum, only dry methods for drawing and sketching are allowed, no watercolors inside this time. Benches and foldable chairs are available. Lockers are downstairs (you need a 1 euro coin) and there is a coffee machine in the little cafeteria at the entrance floor.

When you are done sketching, let’s meet in the Mudam cafeteria at 16:45 to take photos of our work. The light is great there and those who want can have a drink. The cafeteria is accessible without paying the entrance fee of Mudam.

Public Transport : tram stop Philharmonie, train Kirchberg-Pfaffenthal, bus Route-Bréck – Pfaffendall.

Welcome!








Sunday, 19 February 2023

Sketchcrawl at the Tramsmusée, February 2023

We met at the Museum of Trams and Buses of the Luxembourg city on 12 February, a day when the sun almost came out from behind the clouds. Most sketchers choose to work indoors however; I was the only one to sketch the museum from the outside this time. 

We welcomed two newcomers, who came for the first time to our sketchcrawls!

Don't forget to email photos of your sketches to the usk.luxembourg(a)gmail.com account after the meeting. For those who use Instagram, there are two films on the account USkLuxembourg with our works, and many of our sketches are reposted there. Use the hashtag #uskluxembourg to get reposted!

 

Sketchers at work









Ebba


The trams were fun to draw and paint.


Geneviève


Kasra


Pedro


Gerard


Lawrence


Ebba


Other objects were also interesting in the big museum


Annie 

Ekaterina


Lawrence

Lawrence




Sketchers on 12 February



Some sketches of 12 February

Putting the USk Luxembourg stamp on our sketches!



Thanks everyone for coming and see you next time!

Ebba