Even on a hot summer day, these golfers are up for some clubbing
August 1, 2021
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
July 30, 2021
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
It’s Happy sails for this empty-nester couple who took to the sea
June 27, 2021
A GLEAMING sailboat named Happy is making a stop at the Port of Edmonds after a speedy sail at 11.2 knots from Bainbridge. It doesn’t
June gloom over Gas Works Park
June 14, 2021
June 13, 2021. This morning the @uskseattle group gathered to sketch in person for the first time in 16 months. It was a typical June-gloomy day of
An arms race: A vaccine clinic works swiftly to inoculate a diverse crowd in Kent
June 13, 2021
“THIS IS GOING to be quick. Just take a deep breath.” HealthPoint worker Bao-Yen Tran must have repeated those words dozens of times today. She
Seattle Maritime Academy’s floating machine shop is an old vessel with new purpose
June 11, 2021
THE VULCAN, one of three floating machine shops built for the U.S. Army in the 1950s, still is filled with old tools that were used
Months after protests rocked Capitol Hill, lingering concrete barriers disturb the peace
March 14, 2021
BACK IN EARLY June, the old building that houses the Seattle Police Department East Precinct on Capitol Hill became a focal point of protests after
At a COVID-19 testing site in Renton, driver after driver learns how to properly swab
January 24, 2021
A TEAM OF ABOUT 20 medical assistants staffs a busy COVID-19 testing site in Renton on a recent soggy morning. Like a fly on the
Hot-dog stand sketch: a behind-the-scenes look at the process
January 13, 2021
I can’t believe it took me so long to try a cream-cheese-slathered “Seattle dog” from Betty Aklilu’s Deez Dogz stand at Fifth Avenue and Pike
For the owner of Deez Dogz, it’s all about connection (and cream cheese)
January 10, 2021
THE TOASTED BUN is slathered with cream cheese, and the hot dog is split in half and covered with sauteed onions. “That’s the Seattle Dog,”
From pencil to ink
December 22, 2020
If you aim to make ink sketches with a certain degree of accuracy, it helps to block out the composition in light pencil first. I
Pen and Wash class at Gage Academy of Art
November 22, 2020
These are some demo sketches from an online class I taught last month through Seattle’s internationally-known Gage Academy of Art. For the winter quarter I’m
Passersby pay their respects as the beloved Pink Elephant packs its trunk
November 15, 2020
THE POOR PINK Elephant. It doesn’t spin all the way around anymore. It just nudges back and forth with the wind. As dusk begins to
Between global voyages, this oceanographic research ship docks at Portage Bay
November 8, 2020
THE R/V THOMAS G. Thompson has just returned to its home port at the University of Washington School of Oceanography in Portage Bay after a
Sketching the University of Washington oceanographic research ship
October 23, 2020
A few behind-the-scene snapshots from a wonderful time sketching the University of Washington scientific research vessel Thomas G. Thompson and some crew members. Main sketch
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