Creating Visual Shortcuts: Sketchwalk with Rita Sabler

​A relaxed sketchwalk led by Rita Sabler in Granville Island, exploring how to balance speed against details when sketching quickly.

​Rita Sabler is a visual journalist, artist, and educator based in Portland, Oregon, USA. She teaches Drawing, Urban Sketching and Visual Journalism courses at the Parsons School of Design, Pacific Northwest College of Art, and Portland State University and gives lectures and workshops all over the world. In between teaching she works on drawing reportage projects. Rita Sabler has served as the Education Director on the board of the global Urban Sketchers organization since 2019. 

​Rita’s main areas of expertise are Reportage Illustration, Travel Sketching, and Visual Storytelling, but she is often seen on street corners capturing busy markets, festivals, protestors, musicians, and regular citizens living their life in both ordinary and extraordinary ways. When not drawing or teaching she is a busy parent and a tango pianist.