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95 percent totality, 100 percent wow
There is something magical and powerful about a vast group of people gearing up to witness a solar eclipse together at the same time. My partner and I…
Apr 15
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Sanika Phawde
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An astronomical family reunion
All morning, the sun dipped in and out of clouds over Grand Prairie, a suburb of Dallas where my family had found an ideal house to rent for the long…
Apr 15
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Tina Koyama
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Reportage News: Mereida Fajardo, Joan Chiverton, Chip Sullivan, Luís Simões, plus a new Sketcher Press book!
Hello readers, Here’s a new bulletin of sketching and reportage news. If you like what you read, please share so others can learn about On the Spot and…
Apr 10
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Gabi Campanario
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What 600 walruses were doing in costumes and bathing suits
Poland comes out of winter slowly, especially in its northern parts. It wouldn’t be a huge surprise if snow decided to fall in April. Luckily, the Poles…
Apr 1
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Dominika Wróblewska
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March 2024
Walking in the footsteps of trailblazing women
London, February 23, 2024 — Today I am being a tourist in my own city. I am booked on a “Women of London” walking tour. It is a sharply cold morning…
Mar 6
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Lis Watkins
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February 2024
Reportage News: Simo Capecchi in Adesso magazine; Paul Madonna's All Over Coffee; Substack Reads features On the Spot
Hello readers, Some housekeeping: On the Spot has a new tagline: the Magazine of Reportage Illustration. This slogan better reflects my original goal…
Feb 21
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Gabi Campanario
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Tractors as far as the eye can see
Gdańsk, Feb. 9, 2024 — It’s a frosty and foggy morning in my hometown on the Baltic coast of Poland. Everything is strangely quiet. Noises are stifled…
Feb 12
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Dominika Wróblewska
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January 2024
Rewind: Marielle Durand on drawing inside the French Parliament and around her Paris 13 neighborhood
The guest of my January Live Zoom was Marielle Durand, an artist, author and urban sketcher based in Paris. Durand belongs to a very small group of…
Jan 29
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Gabi Campanario
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Sketching News Roundup: Rolf Schroeter; Christina Wald; Sketchers on the Road; Calendar
Hi readers, It felt good to kick off On the Spot in 2024 with a contributed article by Houston based artist Judith Dollar. Next, I announced this…
Jan 24
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Gabi Campanario
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Meet my guest for January's Live Zoom
French artist Marielle Durand has been sketching for more than 20 years, but when she started her career as a professional artist she never imagined the…
Jan 12
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Gabi Campanario
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It's blue, purple and gold all over Houston
Thousands of out-of-town football fans started arriving in Houston over the weekend to attend today’s game between the University of Michigan Wolverines…
Jan 8
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Judith Dollar
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December 2023
5 takeaways from 2023
In 2023 we learned that AI can generate striking images as fast as anyone can type a well-worded prompt. But, fellow artists and sketchers, let’s not be…
Dec 31, 2023
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Gabi Campanario
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