Sad farewell to ‘bohemian rathole’ from more affordable times
August 13, 2016
No deposit. No background check. Monthly rent of $350, in cash, for a room within walking distance to work. Back in 2013, Skyler Wister, a
Discovery Park lighthouse
July 19, 2016
An experiment: I clipped a loose sheet of watercolor paper to the front and back covers of a gutted sketchbook. The result after adding watercolor
A taste of California in the U-District
February 7, 2016
International burger chain CaliBurger opened its first Seattle location last fall. It’s on University Way Northeast, the popular U-District arterial better known as the Ave.
The little steamboat that could …
October 16, 2015
Sketched June 11 and Oct. 6, 2015When I arrived at the Center for Wooden Boats North Lake Union Workshop and Warehouse back in June, Team
Extremadura via iPad
September 1, 2015
I made these sketches just a couple of weeks ago while visiting family in Spain. They show the 900-year-old ruins of a castle in Montemolin,
Live from the ballpark
July 10, 2015
In this day and age of high-tech, instant tweets and Facebook posts, does sharing sketches live matter? Last night, I typed this post from the
Drawing among chickens
June 10, 2015
Bothell Country Village is a quirky outdoor mall in the Seattle suburbs where you can easily get lost wandering from store to store, especially if
Triangle house: a slice of weird Seattle
March 20, 2015
Sketched March 12 and 17, 2015 Welcome to the Egan House, the latest addition to my list of delightfully weird Seattle. The $2,300 month-to-month rental
Vintage machines come alive at computer museum in Sodo
February 27, 2015
My tech-loving son has set an ambitious goal for his sixth-grade “passion project” at school: to build his own PC. While he tries to get
Back to my old stomping grounds in SoCal
November 23, 2014
A recent family vacation in Southern California included a day hike in Joshua Tree National Park and an evening dinner at a nearby In-N-Out, a
Seattle Sketcher, in book form
November 22, 2014
Here’s a peek inside my Seattle Times book, in case you don’t have your own copy yet. My favorite thing about it: The sketches appear
Veterans among us
November 11, 2014
“Breaking news: there are Veterans among us!” When my friend Sean posted that on Facebook this morning, I was immediately reminded that every November 11
Quick impression of São Paulo
October 13, 2014
A passerby took some photos of me while I sketched at Avenida Paulista and emailed them to me within hours. How nice is that! That
Sketch of Pacific Northwest painter Henry Stinson
October 1, 2014
Henry Stinson is a well-known Pacific Northwest figurative painter based in Pullman, WA. Back in April I was teaching a sketching workshop there and I
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