From San Diego, California

"Lydia Velarde hovers over her sketchbook outside of a bustling Starbucks, pen grasped, recreating the flurry of the coffee shop onto paper with quick strokes of her hand and a vigilantly observing eye.

Velarde, a San Diego native for 25 years, is one of 100 artists from more than 50 cities invited to contribute work to The Art of Urban Sketching, a collection of on-location drawings compiled by Seattle Times staff artist and illustrator Gabriel Campanario." —San Diego City Beat

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