[Meetup Info] Let's Sketch on Granville Island with Steven Reddy

Let’s meet and sketch on Granville Island with the guest artist, Steven Reddy!

📍Off the Tracks Cafe
https://maps.app.goo.gl/f8qHdFJREF3LAztC9

📆 Saturday, November 1st, 2025
Meetup 🕐 1 pm
Sketch Throwdown 🕐 3:15 pm

*We will update closer to the date if anything changes.

LET’S MEET UP just outside Off the Tracks Cafe (1363 Railspur Alley) at 1:00 p.m. You can remain there or go elsewhere to draw. Then we will gather again, at the same place at 3:15 p.m., to share our work and chat.

We will also have an out of town guest joining us. Steven Reddy is a well known Seattle-based urban sketch artist, illustrator and author.

Granville Island has ample subject matter both inside and out: the Public Market, the Net Loft, under the bridge, around industrial-looking Ocean Cement, the little ferries, and of course lots of people.

Useful link for getting to Granville Island.

https://granvilleisland.com/directions-and-parking

Don’t forget your sketching supplies. Some people might like to bring a portable stool too, so they can sit anywhere.

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