Urban Sketching at Mitre Tavern

About 40 Urban sketchers met in Melbourne at the Mitre Tavern on a hot Summer day.

Mitre Tavern is the oldest pub in Melbourne (1837) and has quite a history!

I arrived before 11 and started sketching and chatting with some others who were also early.

We had just over an hour of outside sketching before it started to rain and then pour. Plans were quickly changed and we moved under the awnings of the Mitre Tavern for an early throwdown and group photo. So many different styles of mark making and interpretations of the space.

Many of us all moved inside into the Private Room at the Mitre Tavern and ordered lunch. It was quiet as many Melbournians and tourists were at the Australian Open tennis. A lovely menu – great fish and chips and a half pint of cider.

It was a great day with many new sketchers and I met some familiar online sketching names. The weather worked in our favour today.

Melbourne Urbane sketchers meet once a month on the second Sunday. The location is somewhere in Melbourne CBD. We will never run out of places to sketch.

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