Greetings from Minnesota
March 1, 2013
Seattleites who normally plan mid-winter trips to Palm Springs or Hawaii may have a hard time understanding why I went to Duluth, Minn., of all
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NYT op-art by Jason Polan
December 30, 2012
The New York Times includes contributions from artists in its Opinion pages, a practice I wish many newspapers followed. These contributions are called “Op-Art” and
Goya: ‘I’m still learning’
November 4, 2012
Reading Goya’s biography by Robert Hughes, I came across this exceptional black chalk drawing by the Spanish painter. Goya made the drawing not long before
Artists & Illustrators Magazine
September 28, 2012
Fellow urban sketcher James Hobbs asked me a few questions for an article he published in the summer issue of Artists & Illustrators magazine. Mainly, he wanted to know
Sketching workshop at corrections center in Gig Harbor
August 15, 2012
Last week, a group of Seattle urban sketchers and I visited the jail where these women are incarcerated, the Washington Corrections Center for Women in
Portraits of Santo Domingo
July 23, 2012
Santo Domingo’s Colonial Zone, home to the oldest European settlement in the Americas, reminded me a lot of my native country of Spain. First you
The BBOOOOOOKKKK!!!
February 1, 2012
The title of this post comes from the subject line of an e-mail I received yesterday from my sketcher friend Teresa Lawson in Port Townsend,
Dibuja Caracas
December 12, 2011
I never thought the practice of on-location drawing, especially as a group, could have a social purpose, but a recent experience in Caracas proved me
The art of Paul Madonna
November 4, 2011
San Francisco-based artist Paul Madonna is the author of “All Over Coffee,” a drawn feature that runs every Sunday in the San Francisco Chronicle. His beautiful drawings of
Sylvia Plath, urban sketcher
October 27, 2011
I’m not familiar with Sylvia Plath‘s writing, but I just learned that the acclaimed American poet was also an urban sketcher. The Telegraph announces that a selection of
61 ways to put your life into a Moleskine
October 19, 2011
People use Moleskine notebooks for all sorts of things. They take notes, doodle, glue receipts and even create three-dimensional paper sculptures out of their pages. Many artists
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