The legacy of illustrator Miroslav Sasek
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
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
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
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
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
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
I first heard of a “sinking ship” building in reference to a Seattle parking garage built on a sloping street near the iconic Smith Tower.
I hardly came up with an original name for my sketching journal. A reader who recently travelled to Melbourne emailed me a photo of a
How do you call a sketch of something that is already a drawing or a painting? A meta sketch? If so, I did some meta-sketching
The sketch doesn’t fit on the page? No worries. That happened to me the other day while I sketched longshore workers at The Port of
Ronald Ginther’s watercolors are a rare visual document of the Depression years in the Seattle area. Ginther painted events he experienced in jails, homeless camps
Spring and sketching go hand in hand. I spent a wonderful April weekend co-teaching a sketching workshop in Pullman, Washington. My partners were Frank Ching
As far as drawing techniques go, watercolor can be really frustrating. As soon as the paint hits the paper, it seems to take a life
Joshua Boulet is a comic book artist, illustrator and sketcher originally from Texas whose work I just discovered a few months ago. I was particularly captivated