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The Lemont Artists Guild is pleased to present Art Director and Graphic Designer Wes Douglas who will demonstrate sketching the environment around us, utilizing the fun of art markers in these sketches. These are sometimes called "Uglies" such as sketching a garbage can, paperclip holder, or even a pencil or pen! Come see what you can sketch right around you and learn about using some markers too!
Wes Douglas, a suburban Chicago resident for more than 50 years, is a design graduate of Northern Illinois University and was a founding member of the innovation firm Maddock Douglas in Elmhurst. Wes loves to sketch people on location and is a lifelong illustrator. An instructor at past Sketch Seminars, Wes now teaches students at the DuPage Art League about the secrets of urban sketching. He also has been an active member (and former co-administrator) for Urban Sketchers Chicago since 2013.
In 2023, Wes was selected as the Sketch Correspondent for that year’s Chicago Sketch Seminar. In 2017 he 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. You can find out more about Wes on Facebook: Wes Douglas, Instagram: @wheels317, or on his website or the DuPage Art League website.
Meetings are open to all; you do not have to be a Lemont Artists Guild member to attend.