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
I see sinking ships
August 18, 2014
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.
The Australasian Sketcher periodical reported “with pen and pencil” in the late 1800s
August 13, 2014
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
A meta-sketching experience
August 11, 2014
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
When a page is not enough to fit a sketch
August 4, 2014
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 of the Depression
May 7, 2014
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
Line to Color workshop at WSU
April 22, 2014
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
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