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Bridget Deatrick

WS01 – Speed Sketching

Bridget Deatrick, a licensed landscape architect, found her passion for sketching through a semester-long college class called Drawing is Knowing, which included on-location drawing. The lessons about strict perspective and accuracy might not have stuck but the love of getting to know new locations and subjects through artistic exploration did.

Bridget became serious about sketching as she left college and joined USk Chicago in 2015, shortly after moving to the suburbs for work. In addition to participating in the chapter meet-ups, she enjoys completing social media challenges and these daily assignments helped her realize the two important things that have guided her personal practice: A drawing doesn’t have to be a serious work of art to be good and nothing can replace experience. As she completed more of these challenges, she found herself doing a little bit every day by necessity, not stressing over perfection and having fun drawing things for herself. She now has a regular personal habit of drawing something (almost) every day for Urban Sketchers events and personal projects. She also works on commission, creating original artwork for new games in development with her husband and friends.

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