
Fall workshop in Bothell
The Fall Edition of the weekend-long workshop that I started teaching at Cloud 9 Art School in Bothell back in March wrapped up with lots

The Fall Edition of the weekend-long workshop that I started teaching at Cloud 9 Art School in Bothell back in March wrapped up with lots
Glacials melt directly into this alpine lake in the North Cascades. The water is ice-cold. But that didn’t stop my friends Ahmed and Ben from jumping

Red tiles. Blue tiles. Iron bridges. Baroque churches. Towering monuments. Refreshing fountains. Sweet wine. A magic bookstore. Civic pride. Porto. Ponto.

All these years in the Pacific Northwest have taught me never to let rain dampen my sketching plans. Unless is cold and windy, there’s always


The Castle of Montemolín, “el castillo” as I’ve called it since I was a kid, is one of more than 300 medieval fortresses embedded in

Had a lot of fun teaching “urban sketching on foot” today with a fantastic group of students. The class was part of the School of Visual Concepts summer program.

My urban sketching workshop at View Park was part of the Summer Events program organized by the First Hill neighborhood. Special thanks to Alex Hudson

The workshop I just taught at #USkPorto2018 was about using a pocket-size notebook for urban sketching. That format may seem small, but there’s a lot

I had the privilege of teaching my Pocket Urban Sketching workshop to three groups of international sketchers during the 9th Urban Sketchers Symposium held in Porto a few

June gloom has spilled a bit into July. But I’m OK with that. It still looks beautiful by the Puget Sound.
Here’s a nice souvenir from the workshop I taught in Bothell this past weekend: a video-collage shared by workshop participant Karen Hoelscher, of Bellingham. The

The summer edition of my Cloud 9 Art School urban sketching workshop in charming Bothell, WA., attracted a great group of participants. They came from
Inspired by the #30x30DirectWatercolor2018 online challenge going around. Good weather sure helps when you are painting with watercolors outdoors. DANIEL SMITH: Artists’ Materials watercolors on
Hey, fans of the Procreate app, did you see the major update to Pocket Procreate that just happened a few days ago? Now the iPhone version of