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Urban Sketchers is a network of artists around the world who draw the cities where they live and travel to. We have this blog, which is by invitation, and a 
If you want to start your own USk blog and connect all urban sketchers in your city, here's how to go about it:
1. Get a group of a minimum of 3 sketchers together interested in launching an USk blog for your city. 2. Send your names and e-mail addresses to urbansketchers at gmail dot com with a brief paragraph stating your interest in launching the blog and how you plan to keep it fresh and engage your community. You will be the blog's administrator and will be expected to run it following the rules of the group. A blog that becomes a showcase of drawings made from photos or doodles will obviously not fly. 3. We'll create the blog and give you full access to it. You'll be able to invite people to participate, personalize it with your own flag, add links and more. So, what are you waiting for? Get your fellow citizens out to sketch!
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The New York New York Hotel Casino. These buildings are not just a facade, they are the real hotel towers where guests stay. I came here with some colleagues from the conference and we went on the roller coaster, which goes in and out of the building and turns you upside down a couple of times. Then we watched the Cirque du Soleil show Zumanity, the top entertainment offering at the casino.
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The Paris Hotel is further north on Las Vegas Boulevard. The restaurant at street level happens to be called Mon Amí Gabi.
What do you think of the blatant copies of these beloved landmarks? I find them surreal but quite entertaining.
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personally i love them! I got married in Vegas, we had our honeymoon at the Venetian. Well, we got engaged in the real Venice so it was fitting. If anything, the Venetian was less touristy!
Excellent drawings as usual!
I love that views, I would like to visit vegas too.
I love them - totally kitsch, tongue-in-cheek - they make me smile! Fantastic drawings too.
I think they're great fun! Your sketches show how much delight you take in them.
Great sketches Gabi.
Great going Gabi. This place must be a sketcher's heaven. Vegas is at the top of my must-see list... now that I've check off Spain, Italy and downtown Newark.
These are great, Gabi! I've never been to Venice in Las Vegas, but I have been in EPCOT and also there is a gondola ride you can take in Central Park - and I love the city in all its incarnations!
These are great Gabi, I was there two years ago but it was way to hot to draw. Your sketches capture exactly all the craziness. I'm in a better mood for having seen them.
Just alive, and your comment is wonderful... like the sketches !!!
Spectacular drwaings!
What's entertaining, Gabi, are your drawings!!!
You have captured- and commented- on exactly what Vegas is about!
They are wonderful....
Wow Gabi....I can't believe how well you were able to transfer the excitement of Vegas onto paper!!! When I was there in August our hotel window looked right out onto the scene you've shown from New York, New York! but I was too timid to draw it....
Wow! Just love these.
Wild sketches! Now I´ll have to add Vegas to my list of places to go...
Never been to Vegas, would love to go...so LOVE these sketches! Fantastic color and detail. Congrats too on the success of this fantastic site! Wonderful....
Spectacular!
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