


Time to put a lid on the I-5 canyon?
Sketched Dec. 15 and 17, 2015Can you imagine putting a lid over downtown Interstate 5 and building a park on top? I can. Especially after
Veni, vidi, sketched it
Hoping for a colorful mountain scene during this morning’s trail run with Ben and Ahmed, I decided to carry my iPad in my backpack. Unfortunately,

Victoria, B.C. Parliament
With not much time available before boarding my ferry back to Seattle, I did a quick line drawing of the impressive Parliament building on my

Why I quit fountain pens (for a while) and picked a Bic pen
Earlier in my urban sketching years, I thought I had discovered the holy grail when I saw people drawing with fountain pens. That’s how it’s
IKEA scenes sketched with Procreate Pocket app
Here are a couple of sketches I made at IKEA using a Wacom Stylus and the Procreate Pocket app on my iPhone. I took license

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
Jumping into a drawing while my friends jump into a lake
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

Porto. Ponto. A travelogue in ten sketches and twenty-one words.
Red tiles. Blue tiles. Iron bridges. Baroque churches. Towering monuments. Refreshing fountains. Sweet wine. A magic bookstore. Civic pride. Porto. Ponto.

Urban sketching crash course in drizzly Bellingham
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


El Castillo de Montemolín
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

Urban Sketching on foot class at the School of Visual Concepts
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.

First Hill community workshop
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
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