Wayne's coffee!

Tuesday! USK Lunch at Wayne's coffee in Eskilstuna.
 Minus 6 degrees Celsius. Not nice, but it'll soon get worse!
Fortunately, we have a lot cafés in Eskilstuna.

Consequently, once again a coffee and sketching meeting!

Sven's image shows the grey and cold outside and the nice and warm inside!

Lasses sketch!

Björn managed to sketch Wayne (the owner) himself.

Juhas's sketch.

Jennies sketch! 

Karl's sketch!

Coffee and sketching, a great combination!

Due to the success last week, USK-ESKILSTUNA decided once again to sketch at a local café´. This tuesday we went to Espresso House. Great coffee – and great sketching!

Sven's sketch!

Juha's sketch!

Björn's (done with great help from his japanese pens. He wishes to thank all of Japan!)

Julia's sketch.

Henrik (our photographer) and Begonia, one of the sketchers (We headhunted her from Malaga, in Spain)

Juha! (who ate and sketched simultaneously!)

Begonia sketches the lamp!

Sven (who is a fast sketcher, and therefore ate most of the time…)

Björn and Juha.

Julia at work

Sven at work

Coffee and sketching but no training!

Tuesday meeting at the recently opened Amarant Café (close to the main hotel, Stadshotellet).
Moreover, the café is really close to a gym (it is in the basement, actually). Isn't that a great idea?

Well, Amarant offer great coffee and pastries, of course – but – we went there to do some serious sketching. So we did. And also, we took the opportunity have a series "fika"!

Sven's sketch

Björn's sketch!

Karl's sketch!

Jenny's sketch!

Part of the USK-ESK-team!

Thanks for visiting.

Life and death!

This tuesday we went to the Elim church, a baptist church close by. Håkan Karp, a colleague and a friend of Sven, let us in.

Swedes seldom visit church (except when getting married, baptized or during a funeral)…or when they are sketching the place, of course. However, most swedes tend to appreciate the calm atmosphere inside a church. This was especially true today, when we sketched different parts of the Elim church.

However, here are today's images (some of them, more will come later).

Sven's

Peter L's

Björn's

Karl's (also a sketch from last time)

Furniture all over!

Due to autumn weather, we once again decided to sketch something inside our premises. Theme of the day: furniture in our building.

 

Sven's sketch of our Steinway (well, sort of; it's an August Förster).

Björn's sketch of a chair. Design by our design department. Somewhat useless, bit nice to look at.That goes both for the chair itself and the sketch (I hope). I had forgot my winsor and newton-box at home and put on colours while cooking my evening spaghetti.

The final result is found below. The spaghetti is unfortunately all finished.

Juha (new member!) sketched our patio.

Anders' (new member!) sketch of the chair made of concrete (also in the patio).

Guest sketchers from Volvo (Anders and Juha)

Sketch it again, Sven!

More images to published any time!

Why do we live here?

Why the heck did our ancestors stay up here in the far north while the others – the ones equipped with fully functioning brains, probably – went back to the south (sun, drinks with small umbrellas, sunny beaches, hula-hula)? 

Well, there is nothing to do about that now. We are stuck here in Eskilstuna, in Sweden.

However, our USK-meetings are great relief – our happy pills – during this depressing season.

Well, due to the bad weather mentioned above, we stayed in our premises to sketch this tuesday.

The theme of today was: "Odd places in our building".

Sven ended up by our piano (under the stairs). 

Julia's sketch

Björn stayed in his room, looking out his window. Crying at the rain.

Karl's image of the Xerox machine.

Mattias' sketch from our exhibition area.

More images to be published any time...

Thanks for visiting!

/Björn

Be quiet!!!

Yes, it should be really quiet inside a library, but what about outside? Sven's sketch shows the construction work going on outside our city library. It is not easy to to focus, not even when reading Alice Munro's razor sharp novels...

Yes, this tuesday we went to the city library in Eskilstuna. Again. Books are amazing, even from the outside, so to speak. Also, our city library is equipped with an extraordinary café. Perfect for us, Urban Coffee Drinkers!

We did not have much time (as always...), nevertheless, we all accomplished today's mission: to sketch anything from the library, or close by. And still have time for some coffee!

Picture 1: The USK-ESK team are discussing and having coffee. And cake.

Björn ended up by the table here...

...and completed this sketch. More or less..

(Note the urban sketcher to the left!)

Julia's sketch of an art work in the library.

Ida's sketch of Julia (who also is sketching).

Karl's sketch of the garden outside the library.

More images will arrive shortly!

Thanks for visiting!

Machines!

Mr. Munktell himself

Johan Theofron Munktell, the technical genius had a lot of ideas. Some of them resultated in the company Volvo BM.

Today, USK-ESK went to The Munktell Museum in order to sketch some of Johan's (and the Bolinder brothers') machines.

Entrance to the museum

The exhibition hall

Sven's sketch

Björn's

Jenny's

Karl's

Lasse Frank's

Ida's sketch! (New member, welcome Ida!)

/Björn