SketchTogether – Museum of Cambridge
Did you catch us on BBC Look East? Cambridge Drawing Society kicked off Cambridge Arts Festival with a special SketchTogether at the wonderful Museum of Cambridge on Monday! For the first time ever, we opened our doors to the public, inviting them to join us…
SketchTogether – Fitzwilliam Museum
We had an amazing SketchTogether at the Fitzwilliam Museum with a record breaking 18 members & friends participating. We were inspired by a spectacular choice of subjects from ancient Mesopotamia to contemporary ceramics. We’re already looking forward to next month’s meet up at the Cambridge…
SketchTogether – Christmas Lights, Cambridge
We had seven hardy sketchers on 14 December – sketching around Lion Yard both inside and outside in the cold (with freezing fingers)! Many thanks to everyone who came to our SketchTogether events this year – see you next year!
SketchTogether – Museum of Classical Archeology
Nine CDS members or friends sketched at the Museum of Classical Archaeology on Saturday 16 November. The museum is full of Greek and Roman plaster casts from 1700 BCE to 400 CE. It was such a lovely place to draw most of the group wanted…
SketchTogether – Whipple Museum
For our October SketchTogether ten of us met up at the Whipple Museum of the History of Science. They could not have been more welcoming, giving us a whistle-stop introduction to the collection that gave us a feel for its breadth – and eccentricity. I…
SketchTogether – Bridge the Gap
This month’s SketchTogether took place at Bridge the Gap, a charity walk around the Cambridge colleges. Eight of us met up and spent several hours in glorious sunshine sketching the event in St John’s, Lucy Cavendish, Westminster & Emmanuel Colleges. Special thanks to Maureen Mace…
SketchTogether – Little St Mary’s Lane
Nine of us met up in Little St Mary’s Lane on a lovely sunny morning. It was idyllic, with so many views to pick from! Afterwards we had a coffee and a bite to eat in the Fitzwilliam Museum cafe. Some of our sketches are shown…
SketchTogether – Cambridge Shakespeare Festival
Men in tights and Russians with big beards dancing to Rasputin in a Fellows’ garden…it can only be the Cambridge Shakespeare Festival. We were very lucky to be allowed in to sketch the actors rehearsing for their production of Love’s Labour’s Lost. It was so…
SketchTogether at Music in the Park on Romsey Rec
We had a super afternoon sketching the singing choirs at Music in the Park on Romsey Park. We hope to see you at the next SketchTogether event next month! Watch out for further updates about SketchTogether – a sketching group for CDS members & friends.
SketchTogether at Quayside
The sun was out last Sunday and so were we. We were spoilt for choice of subjects at Quayside, Cambridge: river, punting, buildings, people, and even paddle boarding. A group of us continued on with lunch followed by a visit to Kettle’s Yard. It was…