Urban sketchers find the sublime in the city block

Portland’s Union Station, captured in watercolor and pen by an artist at the Urban Sketchers Portland event. Deena Prichep

Deena Prichep

Great landscape art can take you into a world: the majestic hills of Georgia O’Keeffe’s  Southwestern sublime;  the pastoral calm of Monet’s water lilies. But for years now, groups of amateurs have been gathering with sketchbooks in cities across the world to turn their artistic gaze to the everyday sights of skyscrapers and sidewalks