Local Lines: A Sketchbook Project

Name: Local Lines: A Sketchbook Project
Start: 2025-09-18T18:00:00-04:00
End: 2025-09-18T19:00:00-04:00
Location: 100 St. André Way, Notre Dame, IN, United States, Indiana 46556

Schedule

Thu Sep 18 2025 at 06:00 pm to 07:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

100 St. André Way, Notre Dame, IN, United States, Indiana 46556 | Notre Dame, IN

Join us for an evening of sketching, community, and inspiration centered around themes found in the exhibition Homecoming: Walter Osborne’s Portraits of Dublin, 1880–1900.
This month’s session will focus on field drawing in the Charles B. Hayes Family Sculpture Park (weather location in the galleries) and will be led by local artist Kelly Harrington. Come ready to share a sketch (sketches should be no larger than 9” x 12”) of your own, created in response to this prompt:
Choose one natural object—either living or inanimate—from your own yard or a location nearby to draw from life. This could be anything that catches your eye: a leaf, a feather, a rock, a branch, a patch of moss, or even an insect or small plant.
Use any drawing medium you’re comfortable with. Your drawing can be quick and expressive or more detailed and precise—but work only while observing the object in real time. Limit your drawing session to no more than one hour to keep the focus on direct observation.
On the same page as your drawing, be sure to include the following:
- The location (where you found or observed the object)
- The time of day
- The name of the object, if you know it
- Any notes or reflections on what you discovered while drawing
Before you finish, take a clear photograph of your subject to bring with you to our next session.
During the program, we’ll share sketches, discuss artistic choices and techniques, find inspiration in each other’s and Osborne’s work, and take on a new sketching challenge inspired by this month’s theme. Local Lines is open to artists aged 15 and up.
This program is part of The Big Draw, the world's largest drawing celebration, which takes place across the globe every year in October. It is for anyone who loves to draw, as well as those who think they can't. The festival promotes drawing as a universal language that has the power to change lives and unite people of any age, background, race, or religion from around the globe.
Parking is available in the Visitor Lot immediately north of the Sculpture Park for a fee during the week (before 4:30 p.m.). Free two-hour parking is available in the Eddy Street Commons Parking Garage or along Angela Blvd. After 4:30 p.m. and on weekends, parking is free and available in any non-gated campus lot. If traveling via South Bend Transpo, take the No.7 bus and use the Eddy St. Commons stop.