


Lynnwood Heritage Park
Hi, hi. If you are in the Seattle area, this might interest you. I’m calling it the Great(er) Seattle Sketching Tour. It works like this:

London urban sketchers anniversary
The London Urban Sketchers group (@urbansketcherslondon) celebrated its 10th Anniversary with a fantastic series of sketchwalks, lectures and workshops. They also presented an impressive book

A research workhorse
A boat parked on a trailer may not be as picturesque as the waterfront scenes that most people are drawn to, but living in the

Kirkland’s Heritage Hall turns 100
If you walk along Market Street in downtown Kirkland, Heritage Hall will definitely catch your eye. A striking example of neoclassical architecture, the building serves

U-District boarded-up house
My first 11 x 14 sketch since I stopped The Seattle Times column. Perfect weather. Interesting subject. And good company sketching with Mack Schroer, a


An old rail bridge and a bat box
It’s a chilly January morning, but this picturesque bend along the Sammamish River Trail is busy with Sunday walkers and quite a few cyclists. My

King Street Station on a chilly morning
Dec. 12, 2021. Brrrrr! Cold morning with @uskseattle at King Street Station. Yet I couldn’t help but choosing to draw outside, which I haven’t done

Amazon vs. Mother Nature
On New Year’s Eve, I went out for a walk hoping to make a sketch that would lift up my dwindling creative spirits. The scene

Boston Old State House
Oct. 10, 2021. I’m here to run the marathon Monday morning, but how could I not make at least one sketch! This city is an

Talk, workshops (and a few runs!) at Xacobeo 2021 in Santiago de Compostela
I spent a wonderful weekend in Santiago de Compostela participating in “Historias de Cadernos de Viaxe,” a conference on travel sketchbooks included in the official

Light rail is coming
Aug. 15, 2021. I’ve joined my pals Roy and Dave for a Sunday morning of fun sketching around the future Mountlake Terrace light rail station.

Even on a hot summer day, these golfers are up for some clubbing
THE SUN IS beating down hard on Beacon Hill at the start of summer, a prelude to even warmer days ahead in the forecast. But

Montaña de Oro State Park
The travel sketchbook is out again! First vacation of the “post-pandemic” times took me to the beautiful California Central Coast, where I sketched the rugged
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