Discovering this article and video in El País today was like unwrapping a Christmas gift that got lost under the tree. What a nice surprise to end the year! Ana Alfageme, a veteran journalist at the largest Spanish daily and…
I’ve taken a little bit of the Northwest to the Northeast. Some of my Sketcher pieces are part of the exhibit “On Location: Drawing Every Day,” at Montserrat Galleries in Beverly, Mass., where I travelled recently for a 3-day artist residency at Montserrat College of…
I’m not what you would call a car aficionado, but cars run in my family. My dad was an autoworker for 35 years in Spain and I married the daughter of a retired GM autoworker who also collects classic cars,…
I did the sketch you see above the last day of the Symposium. We were sketching right outside PNCA, the art school that hosted the event. Just a block up the street, a band played at a restaurant and we could hear…
Seattle videojournalist David Albright shot and edited this video for the Capitol Hill blog. You can see me sketching and interviewing people for my newspaper feature Seattle Sketcher.
Last Sunday was the first official sketchcrawl organized by USk Seattle. The turnout was great with 14 people getting together at 11 a.m. at Fishermen’s Terminal. We are planning to meet every third Sunday of the month to sketch together in the…
My former college professor Juan Antonio Giner, who runs the newspaper consulting firm Innovation and is the lead editor of the World Association of Newspapers annual report, asked me to write an article about innovative news illustration for this year’s issue, which…
Sunday was the 20th World Wide Sketchcrawl and a true group of Seattle sketchers met at Pike Place Market to go out and sketch. I had a blast. Go to the forums at SketchCrawl.com for more drawings from sketchers around the world.
Talented artist-correspondents from around the globe will share their sketchbooks starting Nov. 1 at www.urbansketchers.com, a new group blog that will showcase drawings from the city streets on at least four different continents. From dynamic cities like London, Moscow, Barcelona, New…
Houses at 1206 and 1210 Republican St. Fellow local blogger Cliffe, from Vintage Seattle, tipped me about the demolition of these two houses starting Tuesday. The one on the left is probably one of the oldest in the Cascade neighborhood. According…
It’s been a month or so since I started the Flickr group urban sketches. So far, we’ve got more than 100 members and near 400 drawings have been submitted from places as diverse as Tokyo, León in Spain, or Santa Fe in New Mexico, U.S., and many other…