The summer edition of my Cloud 9 Art School urban sketching workshop in charming Bothell, WA., attracted a great group of participants. They came from all over the region and beyond: Seattle, Edmonds, Kirkland, Redmond, Gig Harbor, Bellingham, Whidbey Island,…
Inspired by the #30x30DirectWatercolor2018 online challenge going around. Good weather sure helps when you are painting with watercolors outdoors. DANIEL SMITH: Artists’ Materials watercolors on Stillman & Birn Zeta series pocket sketchbook.
Hey, fans of the Procreate app, did you see the major update to Pocket Procreate that just happened a few days ago? Now the iPhone version of the app is very similar to the iPad app. You can’t use the Apple Pencil…
Hing Hay Park is just a small square. It only takes a half-a-block in the heart of Seattle’s Chinatown/International District. But the colorful place lives up to what its name means: Park of pleasurable gatherings. I recently spent a pleasant…
This bell tower is a landmark in Ballard, a Seattle neighborhood that was its own independent city back in the early 1900s. The bell was salvaged from the town’s city hall building way back when it was demolished. The timing…
Summary: A crash course in urban sketching with a basic tool kit consisting of a pocket sketchbook, pencil, pen and watercolors. If you are interested in becoming a better artist and urban sketcher like I was more than a decade…
I recently redrew one of my pocket sketchbook drawings to illustrate one of my Seattle Times posts. Here’s the sketch, done on location and colored afterwards from memory. And here’s the new version drawn on the iPad with the Procreate…
Spent the afternoon hiking to the Linville Falls in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina. Then, sketching heaven happened.
Sitting on the grass in front of my father-in-law’s house. Bic pen and watercolor on Zeta Series Stillman & Birn pocket sketchbook. 1 minute 10 seconds time-lapse video.
A weekend-long sketching class in a walkable urban setting with an interesting mix of architecture, history and nature. That’s the basic idea behind the workshop I have started teaching in Bothell, Washington, a charming little river town 15 miles north of Seattle.…
Watch me make a pen drawing of the Virginia V steamship on my pocket sketchbook. The video is a 2-minute time-lapse of 20 minutes of real sketching time.