A splash of red here, a dab of white there, some fine lines in black, followed by a sweep of yellow…. At the end of two-and-a-half hours, the watercolours on the white paper take on the shape of the iconic clock tower in Jew Street. A work in pen and ink focusses on the street itself; a sketch in pencil maps the façade of the Paradesi Synagogue; a pen work details the colonial features of the architecture.
“We celebrate every aspect of the city through art, no location is left unsung” says Pratheek Sudhakaran, an architect, who founded the Kochi chapter of Urban Sketchers(USk), in November 2020. Since then the group of 250 plein air artists from different walks of life have been sketching and painting different locations of Kochi.
A global community of artists, Urban Sketchers(USk) practise drawing on location they live in or travel to.
