Sponsor highlight — USk Van Sketch Weekend 2025

USk Van Sketch Weekend 2025 is supported by these seven amazing sponsors! This event could not be possible without them. We'd like to express our gratitude here for their generous offers.

Opus Art Supplies
If you are an artist based in Metro Vancouver, you probably have bought art supplies from them. Their Granville Island location is going to provide their gathering space, and even art supplies for the event!

Zameen Art House
The event/workshop venue for artists and creatives on Granville Island will be the place where the event hangout and talks will take place. You can meet our local artists, the USk Executive Board members and fellow sketchers there!

Supply Sponsors

More information about the art supply sponsors and goodie bags will follow. Stay tuned for what you will get at the event!

Legion Paper
Renowned for its high-quality, fine art papers and art supplies, providing an extensive selection of over 3000 premium papers.

Etchr Lab

Australian art company focusing on collaboration with independent artists and dedication to quality and function. Aside from providing art materials such as sketchbooks and paints, they offer online art classes.

Caran d'Ache
Long established Swiss brand that produces produces a wide range of art materials and writing instruments including colored pencils, pastels, fountain pens, ballpoint pens, markers, gouache paints and ink cartridges.

Daniel Smith Artists Materials

Specializing in high-quality, innovative art supplies, particularly known for their watercolors and oil paints. For watercolor sketchers, DS is the dream brand.

Art Toolkit
Manufactures and curates compact and rugged tools for sketching and painting, from urban to wilderness adventures. Their supplies are perfect for sketching!

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#USkVan Sketch Weekend 2025
Granville Island
April 5 (Sat) - April 6 (Sun)

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FAQs — USk Van Sketch Weekend 2025

For those who signed up for USk Van Sketch Weekend 2025, here is the useful information you should know before the event! Q. Can I come only for my event? Is there anything more planned? You are welcome to join on both days of Sketch Weekend! In the morning sessions, we have workshops and sketchcrawls with limited capacity. But afternoon sessions are open to all registered participants. They will be held indoors at Zameen Art House (on Granville Island) from 2pm-5pm on both days. There will be ample opportunities to hang out, listen to inspiring talks, chat with other sketchers, and look through each other’s sketchbooks - all the fun stuff! Q. Will I be able to speak with instructors and visiting Executive Board members? Yes! We made sure to designate some unstructured time for mingling every afternoon. Join our afternoon sessions from 2pm onwards at Zameen Art House. Q. I registered but cannot make it to the event any longer. What should I do? Contact the admin team email...

What an exciting lineup we have! — USk Van Sketch Weekend 2025

Urban Sketchers Vancouver and the Urban Sketchers Global Executive Board cordially invite you to join us in USk Van Sketch Weekend! The event will run between 5 to 6 April 2025! This is going to be USk Vancouver's first big community event, featuring amazing guest instructors and lots of learning opportunities. We have an exciting lineup of esteemed guest and established local artists. The details of each artist and activity will follow soon. Workshops Genine Carvalheira Former President of Urban Sketchers Genine has filled over 85 sketchbooks, recording her life and travels across 30+ countries. Her sketchbook serves as a visual journal, capturing the quiet beauty of everyday moments. Genine is always ready to capture life as it unfolds. Genine will lead the workshop The Full Picture: Sketching Your Entire Experience , showing how to create dynamic story-rich two page spread sketchbooks. Join Genine in capturing a scene in sketches that transcend their physical appearances. Mike...

Event recap: Day 1 — USk Van Sketch Weekend 2025

On April 5 and 6, 2025, Urban Sketchers Vancouver hosted its inaugural Sketch Weekend on Granville Island in collaboration with the Urban Sketchers Executive Board . They selected Vancouver as the location for their annual in-person meeting in spring 2025 and suggested that the local team organize an event in the following weekend. We were so delighted to welcome them and to have this special opportunity to benefit from the global network of Urban Sketchers. The weather in Vancouver during early spring is quite unpredictable. The first day of the event was, however, blessed with clear blue skies! After a few gloomy weeks, the sun finally showed and it made a perfect day for sketching. Here's a recap of the beautiful, sunny Day 1 of USk Van Sketch Weekend 2025. Registration opened at Opus Art Supplies at 10 am. The local art supply shop generously offered their upstairs space for our registration desk. Since it was our first large-scale event and the admission was free, we were wo...

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