Urban Sketchers blog captures city life around the world

Talented artist-correspondents from around the globe will share their sketchbooks starting Nov. 1 at www.urbansketchers.com, a new group blog that will showcase drawings from the city streets on at least four different continents. From dynamic cities like London, Moscow, Barcelona, New…

Bye, bye, Republican Street houses

Houses at 1206 and 1210 Republican St. Fellow local blogger Cliffe, from Vintage Seattle, tipped me about the demolition of these two houses starting Tuesday. The one on the left is probably one of the oldest in the Cascade neighborhood. According…

Capturing the urban life around you

It’s been a month or so since I started the Flickr group urban sketches. So far, we’ve got more than 100 members and near 400 drawings have been submitted from places as diverse as Tokyo, León in Spain, or Santa Fe in New Mexico, U.S., and many other…

Urban sketches at Flickr

I enjoy drawing the streets and the people of Seattle. And I enjoy seeing other artists’ sketches of their own cities just as much. So I started a Flickr group as a one-stop place for all the urban scenes that…

San Lucas Road house

A painting I did in 2001 of the first house Michelle and I rented while we lived in Palm Springs. The painting was done from a photo. I am more of a drawer than a painter and this is one…