Wes Douglas

Wes Douglas, a suburban Chicago resident for more than 50 years, has been an active member (and former co-administrator) for USk Chicago since 2013. Wes was selected as the Sketch Correspondent for the 2023 Chicago Sketch Seminar. In addition to reporting on Seminar events, he will be posting daily sketches to the USk Chicago Facebook and Instagram pages by capturing vignettes from the workshops. “I know this role pretty well,” Wes said. “I love to sketch people on location; I am a lifelong illustrator and in 2017 I was selected as one of the Sketch Correspondents for the International Symposium in Chicago.” Also in 2017 he was responsible for getting a feature article in the Metra newsletter called “Urban Sketchers Tell Metra Stories Through Art” featuring the commuter sketches from such artists as Don Colley, Mary Jo Ernst, Brian Wright and others.

Wes has appeared on WGN Morning News with Liz Steel and WGN Radio AM 720 “Outside The Loop” program to share his passion of urban sketching with Chicago listeners and to promote the USk Chicago Sketch Seminars and the 8th International Urban Sketchers Symposium.

The Sketch Correspondent’s goal is to bring attention to the storytelling possibilities of urban sketching, especially in covering the event. Wes is a design graduate of Northern Illinois University and was a founding member of the innovation firm Maddock Douglas in Elmhurst. An instructor at past Sketch Seminars, Wes now teaches students at the DuPage Art League about the secrets of urban sketching.

Find Wes online at:

Facebook:  Wes Douglas

Instagram:  @wheels317

Web:  sketchnography.blogspot.com