Drawing with the Urban Sketchers Berlin at Hamburger Bahnhof on Sunday. It was wonderful to meet so many sketchers! Thanks to Isabelle Spicer for organizing it! Installation (and text) by Petrit Halilaj. #Urbansketchers #urbansketches #urbanskeching

May the New Year 2026 be a good and peaceful one! Health, wonderful projects, and many moments of happiness, big and small, for all of you! Let’s go!

Sketching together with Urban Sketchers Bremen in the Übersee Museum. Very nice get-together with interesting talks in the museum café afterwards. Thank you, Urban Sketchers Bremen! #urbansketching #urbansketchers #uskbremen

Das Urban Sketchers Deutschlandtreffen 2026 findet in Bremen (18.-20.09.) statt! Toll, liebe Bremer, dass ihr das wuppt! Alles Gute bei der Orga ... wir freuen uns drauf und kommen gerne! Viele Grüße aus Berlin! #urbansketching #urbensketchers #uskgermany #uskgermany2026 #uskbremen2026

EXIL Podcast launch event, Nov 10, #staatsbibliothekberlin.
Episode 1 is dedicated to Lily Renée (1921–2022) Forced to flee Vienna in 1939 -in the 1940s known as a successful female #comicartist.
EXIL =collaboration between the Leo Baeck Institute NYC | Berlin #lbi and the @bpb.de #urbansketching

Meeting Urban Sketchers Vienna in the Naturhistorisches Museum, sketching together dinosaur skeletons and having a nice drink and chat afterwards. Thank you Vienna! And thank you, Oliver Hoeller for being such a patient and entertaining guide to Vienna! #Urbansketchers #urbansketching #sketchbook

East Germany 1986. In an old sketchbook, I discovered sketches from 1986 of a guided tour to VEB Schwarze Pumpe, GDR, organized by SEW Westberlin. It was quite a peculiar experience at the time. #urbansketching #ddr #schwarzepumpe You can view it on my sketch blog: sketches.surrey.de/1986/11/17/v...

Humboldt Forum Berlin October sketching meetup of Urban Sketchers Berlin on Sunday at the Humboldt Forum, followed by chat and drawing at Café Lebenswelten. Very nice, as always. Thank you Eva Hoefflin for organizing! #urbansketching #urbansketchers #sketchbook #drawingonlocation

Every day, a lone barrel organ player sings in front of the Russian House in Berlin, Friedrichstraße , protesting against the war and Russian aggression against Ukraine. #reportagedrawing #urbansketching #berlinusk #urbansketches #reportageillustration #standwithukraine

The @seattletimes-rss.bsky.social on @urbansketchers.bsky.social founder Gabi Campanario @gabrielcampanario.com -> www.seattletimes.com/pacific-nw-m...

Rettet die Bäume am Tempelhofer Damm! Kundgebung am 27. September 2025 um 12.30 Uhr, gegen die Fällung von knapp 200 Bäumen und den Verlust weiterer 100 Bäume am T-Damm durch Wurzelschädigungen während der Sanierungsphase 2027 bis ca. 2037. Es sollen nur etwa 28 Bäume übrig bleiben!

Meeting with Gabi Campanario from Seattle, the founder of Urban Sketchers, (who vitited Berlin to participate in the Berlin Marathon) at Neptunbrunnen fountain. It was great to meet and sketch and talk together! ¡Hasta la próxima! :-). #uskberlin #urbansketchers #urbansketching

Sketching with Gabi Campanario (great to meet you in Berlin!) from Seattle. Neptunbrunnen fountain, with Marienkirche and Fernsehturm TV tower. #uskberlin #urbansketchers #urbansketching #sketchbook #sketchingonlocation 

Sketches from the Urban Sketchers Germany Meeting 2025 in Stuttgart. View from the town hall onto the market square. Schlossplatz. #uskstuttgart2025 #urbansketchers #uskstuttgart #urbansketching

Sketches from the Urban Sketchers Germany Meeting 2025 in Stuttgart. Opening and closing events with the exhibition at the Stadtpalais and drink & draw at the Theaterhaus Stuttgart. It was superbly organized by the USK Stuttgart organizing team! :) #uskstuttgart2025 #urbansketchers #urbansketching

Sketches from the Urban Sketchers Germany Meeting 2025 in Stuttgart. The "Palast der Republik" on Börsenplatz is an extremely lively place, where hundreds of guests gather every evening to chat and have a drink. @uskstuttgart2025 @urbansketchers @uskstuttgart #urbansketching #uskdeutschlandtreffen

Urban Sketching made the CBS Evening News! youtu.be/gmDF2hKpDnI?...

13th Urban Sketchers Symposium 2025 in Poznań. Some of my sketches ... #usksymposium #usk2025poznan #usksmposiumpoznan2025 #urbabsketchers #urbansketching #carnetdevoyage #sketchbook #skizzenbuch

Humboldtforum Berlin, Festival "Durchlüften". Saturday Jul, 9, Son Rompe Pera. #usk #urbansketching #urbansketchers #uskberlin

Three days in Strasbourg on my way back from Urban Sketchers Lyon to Berlin. A very nice afternoon with Strasbourg sketchers Lolo Wagner and Nathyi Regner, who taught me how to say “cheers” in Alsatian: “S’gilt!” 🙂 #urbansketching #urbansketchers #travelsketch #sketchbook

Some more sketches from 12e Rencontre Urban Sketchers France - Lyon 2025, June 7-9. Merci beaucoup, USK Lyon !! #usklyon2025 #urbansketching #urbansketchers #sketchbook #carnetdevoyage #usklyon

12e Rencontre Urban Sketchers France, Lyon 2025 USK Lyon hosted the 12th USK France meeting 2025 in Lyon, June 7-9. 1000 sketchers captured their impressions the of the beautiful city. Merci Lyon, c'etait super !! #urbansketching #urbansketchers #usklyon2025 #sketchbook #carnetdevoyage

Amsterdam sketches. On a short trip to Amsterdam I meet Haarlem sketcher and friend Anne Rose Oosterbaan to chat and draw together. Thank you for the great afternoon!

Skizzentage Weimar - A motivated group of sketchers from Weimar invited us again this year to sketch together, create, eat together, exchange ideas and explore Weimar!

Visiting an old friend in Wallersdorf, Germany. Enjoying an after work drink in his carpenter’s workshop. #urbansketch #urbansketching #sketchbook #onlocarion

I will have the pleasure to be part of the 13th International USK Symposium in Poznań ! My Lecture: „The Wall Revisited – Search For Traces with my Sketchbook“ (LS 02) It will take place on Saturday. August 23rd. Hope to see you there! 🙂

Berlin, Brandenburger Tor, March 9, 2025. Demonstration in support of Ukraine in the fight against the Russian war of aggression. @campact #standwithukraine

Stand with Ukraine! #standwithukraine #urbansketches #urbansketchers

“Island of Youth” in Berlin-Treptow. #urbansketches #urbansketchers #sketchbook

Sketches from Bern, Switzerland. 3rd Swiss Urban Sketchers Symposium 2021. #urbansketches #urbansketchers #uskswitzerland

Wiesbaden - Weinstube "Der Eimer". Traditional pub in the old town. #urbansketches #urbansketchers #locationdrawing

Sketching people on Admiralbrücke in Berlin. #peoplesketches #urbansketching #uskberlin

THE WAIT IS OVER! We are delighted to unveil the faculty lineup for this year’s Urban Sketchers Symposium in Poznań, Poland from 20–23 August 2025. 😍 Registration opens on March 15th! #urbansketching urbansketchers.org/2025/02/10/a...

Sketches from Cádiz. -> sketches.surrey.de/2024/10/26/c...

Demonstration "Lichtermeer gegen Rechts" - "A Sea of lights against right-wing extremism, at the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin today. #urbansketches #urbanskerters #uskberlin

I had the pleasure of accompanying the Świdnica #urbansketchers Festival 2024, as a reportage illustrator.
Great atmosphere and lots of enthusiastic sketchers!
Thank you, USk Poland! sketches.surrey.de/2024/08/19/u... Looking foreward to the Urban Sketchers Symposium 2025 in Pozńan! #urbansketching

My 2024 Best 9 sketches on CARA. Visit my profile on CARA app -> cara.app/detlefsurrey #urbansketchers

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Hi! I'm an illustrator and urban sketcher based in Berlin, Germany. Follow my work -> surrey.de