Kumi Matsukawa

Tokyo area sketcher Kumi Matsukawa works as a freelance illustrator and art instructor, specializing in watercolor and pastels. She also works as a courtroom sketcher, a role that draws heavily on her experience of sketching on location. Kumi is a longtime member of the global Urban Sketchers community. She first joined as an international blog correspondent for Japan in 2009. She is the founder and administrator of the Urban Sketchers Japan Facebook group and Flickr group and has participated in several international USk Simposia.