


Portraits of Santo Domingo
Santo Domingo’s Colonial Zone, home to the oldest European settlement in the Americas, reminded me a lot of my native country of Spain. First you
The BBOOOOOOKKKK!!!
The title of this post comes from the subject line of an e-mail I received yesterday from my sketcher friend Teresa Lawson in Port Townsend,

Dibuja Caracas
I never thought the practice of on-location drawing, especially as a group, could have a social purpose, but a recent experience in Caracas proved me
The art of Paul Madonna
San Francisco-based artist Paul Madonna is the author of “All Over Coffee,” a drawn feature that runs every Sunday in the San Francisco Chronicle. His beautiful drawings of
Sylvia Plath, urban sketcher
I’m not familiar with Sylvia Plath‘s writing, but I just learned that the acclaimed American poet was also an urban sketcher. The Telegraph announces that a selection of
61 ways to put your life into a Moleskine
People use Moleskine notebooks for all sorts of things. They take notes, doodle, glue receipts and even create three-dimensional paper sculptures out of their pages. Many artists
Interview on Portuguese TV show
During the 2nd Urban Sketching Symposium in Lisbon in 2011, I was interviewed for Espaços e Casas, a Portuguese TV broadcast about real estate, architecture,
Q&A with drawing professor Frank Ching
During our monthly sketchcrawls in Seattle, Frank Ching is just another drawing enthusiast, passing his sketchbook around, giving feedback, asking questions and sharing the jovial atmosphere. But
Interview with El País: Cómo mirar a través de un lápiz
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

‘On Location: Drawing Every Day’ exhibit at Montserrat College of Art
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

Car talk in Columbia City
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

Portland memories of sketching with Gérard Michel
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
Seattle Sketcher
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

Meet my fellow Seattle sketchers
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.
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