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
The legacy of illustrator Miroslav Sasek
September 30, 2014
Miroslav Sasek, a Czech-born artist, was trained as an architect and made a career in children’s literature with books that depict city life around the
Sneak preview of The Urban Sketching Handbook
September 26, 2014
My handbook on Architecture sketching isn’t out until Oct. 15, but here’s a look at an early copy I received from the nice folks at Quarry Books. I
35 hours in Rio de Janeiro
September 14, 2014
My stay in Rio during my recent trip to Brazil for the Urban Sketching Symposium was very short, just about 35 hours, but quite memorable
A treasure trove of Life magazines online
September 9, 2014
I have a bunch of old Life magazines at home that I’ve been browsing recently in search of inspiration. Whenever I find work that catches
Summer of Seth
August 20, 2014
Family and friends rarely visit us in Seattle. Most of them live just too far away, either on the East Coast or Spain. But this
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