Sketching St. Louis » Michael Anderson

31 Aug

Calvary Cemetery

This is urban sketching with a touch of artifice. On a very warm summer afternoon in June my sketch group met up at Calvary Cemetery, one …

20 Jun

Metaphysical Dream

Gateway to the West This sketch is a studio piece commissioned for a private collection and is drawn a bit larger than my usual on-location sketchbook pages. On …

17 Jun

Shakespere Glen

Warm-up to Hamlet Fire breathers, sword swallowers and belly dancers are only a part of the troupe that entertain audiences prior to Hamlet in Forest Park. …

01 Jun

Roll over Beethoven…

Tell Tchaikovsky the news! Busts of famous composers on granite columns surround the red-roofed Music Pavilion in Tower Grove Park. It is one of the park’s thirteen Victorian pavilions …

19 May

From the rooftop…

6th Street Last week’s theme on the Urban Sketchers Discussion group was “From the rooftop”. The group moderator wrote that he was “heading to the roof …

17 May

Cafe Ciocollato

Chocolate, coffee, art The highlight of the St. Louis World Wide SketchCrawl was the visit to Cafe Ciocollato. It was the perfect respite from the rainy outdoors with …

16 May

World Wide SketchCrawl #27

Citygarden, rainy day The weather was not artist-friendly but that didn’t stop the St. Louis Drawing & Painting Meetup Group sketchers from participating in Saturday’s international …

07 May

Pecha Kucha St. Louis #3

PKSTL#3 Pecha Kucha Night is an event for designers and other creatives to meet, network, and show their work in public. Drawing its name from the Japanese term for the …

04 May

Chasing Shadows

Grand Basin, Forest Park Walkers, golfers and even a few artists got to enjoy some mid-morning sunshine on Sunday in Forest Park. Cast shadows made zebra …

03 May

Spivey Building, East St. Louis, IL

Tallest building in southern Illinois Now a crumbling, vacant shell the twelve-story Spivey Building towers over East St. Louis, IL. From time to time fragments of …