Generated by All in One SEO v5.0.0.1, this is an llms.txt file, used by LLMs to index the site.

# Gabriel Campanario

urban sketcher

## Sitemaps

- [XML Sitemap](https://gabrielcampanario.com/sitemap.xml): Contains all public & indexable URLs for this website.

## Posts

- [blog](https://gabrielcampanario.com/blog/)
- [Jimothy](https://gabrielcampanario.com/illustration/jimothy/) - Download
- [Laguna Beach](https://gabrielcampanario.com/travel-sketchbook/laguna-beach/)
- [Mission San Juan Capistrano](https://gabrielcampanario.com/pocket-sketchbook/mission-san-juan-capistrano/)
- [Drawing in Pencil Workshop at Cole Art Studio in Edmonds, Sept. 9, 2023](https://gabrielcampanario.com/pencil/drawing-in-pencil-workshop-at-cole-art-studio-in-edmonds-sept-9-2023/) - Here's a workshop I’ve been looking forward to teach for a long time. It’s a back-to-the-basics workshop, focused on pencil drawing techniques. You see, in my early years as an urban sketcher, I didn’t want to waste time studying the fundamentals of drawing. I thought I knew better. Oh, how I wish I had mustered
- [Drawn to graphite](https://gabrielcampanario.com/talks/drawn-to-graphite/) - What’s your favorite pencil lead grade? 3B is pretty perfect for me. That is what I used yesterday evening during my “Drawn to graphite” art talk and demo at Graphite Arts Center in Edmonds, Washington. It was an honor to kick off this year’s series of talks at this wonderful artists’ hub that some of
- [Dibuja Caracas](https://gabrielcampanario.com/talks/dibuja-caracas/) - I never thought the practice of on-location drawing, especially as a group, could have a social purpose, but a recent experience in Caracas proved me wrong. I had the opportunity to visit the capital of Venezuela earlier this month as a guest speaker of "Dibuja Caracas," (“Draw Caracas,” in English) an event sponsored by Faber-Castell as part
- [Back to my roots in Badajoz](https://gabrielcampanario.com/talks/back-to-my-roots-in-badajoz/) - Badajoz is a little known city even to Spaniards, but if you decide to visit, you won’t be disappointed. It’s located almost at the border with Portugal in the region of Extremadura. The historic city center is walled by an ancient Moorish citadel overlooking the Guadiana river. On Sept. 28, Urban Sketchers Badajoz members rolled
- [Talk and sketching with the Seattle Google Employees Art Group](https://gabrielcampanario.com/talks/talk-and-sketching-with-the-seattle-google-employees-art-group/) - This afternoon I hopped on the light rail to go meet and sketch with the Seattle Google Employees Art group. Big thank you to fellow urban sketcher @inkroop for the invitation and the opportunity to talk about urban sketching and how the @urbansketchers movement started. I had a blast!
- [Coal Drops Yard](https://gabrielcampanario.com/sketchwalks/coal-drops-yard/) - I really enjoyed discovering this part of London today with @urbansketcherslondon. Coal Drops Yard (@coaldropsyard) was a hub where coal from mines in North England was delivered through canals and by rail in the 19th century. The site eventually fell into decay and became a wasteland, a place known for prostitution, drugs and illegal clubs. Since
- [Back to my roots in Bellvitge](https://gabrielcampanario.com/urban-sketching-demos/back-to-my-roots-in-bellvitge/) - Hoy ha sido muy especial hacer una demo de sketching en Bellvitge, el barrio donde crecí. Gracias al estupendo grupo de sketchers que os habéis apuntado por compartir este rato conmigo y por vuestro interés en la historia de este rincón de L’Hospitalet. (Y gracias a @yoymispinturas y @elibiosca por las fotos!)
- [Talk and sketch walk in Barcelona](https://gabrielcampanario.com/talks/talk-and-sketch-walk-in-barcelona/) - In 2007 I started an online group where users could share what I considered to be “urban sketches,’ then a blog of invited “artists-correspondents” and then an educational nonprofit, @urbansketchers, that has sparked a sketching movement with more than 500 chapters all over the world. On Sept. 25, I shared how and why I felt compelled
- [Urban Sketching demo of the Neptune Fountain in Berlin](https://gabrielcampanario.com/urban-sketching-demos/urban-sketching-demo-of-neptune-fountain-in-berlin/) - On Sept. 19, I gave an urban sketching tour/demo at the Neptune Fountain near Alexanderplatz in Berlin. This striking baroque-revival fountain is one of the places I visited in Berlin Sept. 1990, just a few days before Germany’s reunification following the fall of the Berlin Wall 10 months earlier. My sketcher friend @surrey_sketches helped me recreate a
- [‘On Assignment’ workshop in Ischia Island](https://gabrielcampanario.com/workshops/on-assignment-workshop-in-ischia-island/) - I was the invited guest artist at the latest edition of the Naples Urban Sketchers Workshop hosted by Italian architect and illustrator Simo Capecchi. Photos by Enzo Rando originally published in La Repubblica.
- [Sketching the Virginia V](https://gabrielcampanario.com/on-location/sketching-the-virginia-v/) - Watch me make a pen drawing of the Virginia V steamship on my pocket sketchbook. The video is a 2-minute time-lapse of 20 minutes of real sketching time.
- [Apple Tower Theatre](https://gabrielcampanario.com/urban-sketching-demos/apple-tower-theatre/) - I had a blast leading this sold-out sketching tour in downtown Los Angeles with a fantastic group of participants. The tour focused on the Apple Tower Theatre in Los Angeles Broadway Theater District. Angelenos came this theatre in the late 1920s to watch silent films and the first ever “talking pictures.” In 2021, Apple’s CEO
- [Walt Disney Concert Hall](https://gabrielcampanario.com/urban-sketching-demos/walt-disney-concert-hall/) - Frank Gehry’s Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao blew me away when I first saw it many years ago. The Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, his hometown, is just as spectacular. I'm glad I was able to lead a sketching tour here. During the tour, I demonstrated sketching the building from a few different street
- [The ‘Yah Bus’](https://gabrielcampanario.com/pocket-sketchbook/the-yah-bus/) - Eventful sketchwalk with @uskseattle in Beacon Hill this morning. An old Volkswagen van painted with a colorful graffiti of flowers and a night skyline caught my eye. Half way through my sketch a man with the biggest smile walked over and said: “Let me move it around so you can see the other side!” That
- ['Drawn to Seattle' exhibit at Museum of History and Industry](https://gabrielcampanario.com/exhibits/drawn-to-seattle-exhibit-at-museum-of-history-and-industry/)
- [Easton's Books](https://gabrielcampanario.com/pocket-sketchbook/eastons-books/) - First time stepping into Easton’s Books in Mount Vernon. Scored two gems for my sketching library and celebrated with a quick sketch.
- [Jellyfish fun at Pier 58](https://gabrielcampanario.com/pocket-sketchbook/jellyfish-fun-at-pier-58/) - Have you been to the new Pier 58 yet? I visited last Sunday with the Urban Sketchers Seattle Group. It was hot, 86 degrees! But that didn't stop anyone from having some fun sketching. The jellyfish playground was a big hit. Dozens of kids jockeyed for a turn to climb inside. So much energy! Parents
- [Keynote speech at Urban Sketchers Symposium in Chicago](https://gabrielcampanario.com/videos/usk-chicago-keynote/) - The 2017 Urban Sketchers Symposium in Chicago celebrated 10 years since I created the online group where the global community of urban sketchers began to form. In my keynote speech, I described how it all started and what we have accomplished together so far.
- [Ampersand Live](https://gabrielcampanario.com/videos/ampersand-live/) - Watch my 5-minute presentation on urban sketching around Seattle as part of Ampersand Live, a yearly event where Pacific Northwest storytellers discuss topics related to place, people and how to create a sustainable future for the region.
- [Talk at Callison Architects](https://gabrielcampanario.com/videos/talk-at-callison-architects/)
- [Talk at USk Symposium in Auckland](https://gabrielcampanario.com/talks/talk-at-usk-symposium-in-auckland/)
- [Sketching in Hamburg](https://gabrielcampanario.com/travel-sketchbook/sketching-in-hamburg/) - A ferry ride along the Elbe River led to a good sketching spot.
- [Meetup at King Street Station to join global sketchwalk marking 10 years of Urban Sketchers online community](https://gabrielcampanario.com/sketchwalks/king-street-station/) - Sketchers all over the world went out to draw to celebrate 10 years of Urban Sketchers today. Don't miss all the sketches shared with the hashtag #USkGlobal24hrsketchwalk. In Seattle, I joined the local group at King Street Station. It was a classic gray and cloudy day, but hanging out with fellow sketchers made the time
- [Montaña de Oro State Park](https://gabrielcampanario.com/travel-sketchbook/montana-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 seascape at Montaña de Oro State Park and the impressive haystack-shaped rock at the entrance of Morro Bay.
- [Friedrichstadt's architecture, people and nature](https://gabrielcampanario.com/workshops/friedrichstadts-architecture-people-and-nature/) - You know urban sketching is a big deal when the mayor of the town where you are teaching a workshop comes out to greet you and reads a prepared statement to welcome you. That’s what Christiane Möller-v. Lübcke, the mayor of Friedrichstadt, did Saturday — I’m the guy in the green t-shirt standing next to
- [Summer in Bothell](https://gabrielcampanario.com/workshops/almost-summer-in-bothell/) - Final group photo in front of Bothell City Hall.
- [Urban sketching class in Bothell attracts sketchers from near and far](https://gabrielcampanario.com/workshops/urban-sketching-class-in-bothell-attracts-sketchers-from-near-and-far/) - Three times a year, I've been teaching a weekend-long urban sketching workshop in downtown Bothell, WA., a charming river town 15 miles north of Seattle. The March group included sketchers from Redmond, Seattle, Lynnwood, Edmonds, Lake Forest Park and one who traveled all the way from Alaska. In June, participants came from as far as
- [Pen and Wash class at Gage Academy of Art](https://gabrielcampanario.com/workshops/pen-and-wash-class-at-gage-academy-of-art/) - 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 planning a new class (also via Zoom) devoted to “Pen and Wash” sketching. Would you like to join me? See description below, and link to schedule and registration here. Pen
- [Talk, workshops (and a few runs!) at Xacobeo 2021 in Santiago de Compostela](https://gabrielcampanario.com/workshops/talk-and-workshops-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 programming of #Xacobeo2021. What an honor to be invited to teach a few workshops and share my experience as the founder of Urban Sketchers.
- [Drawing and writing under a bridge in New Zealand](https://gabrielcampanario.com/workshops/auckland/) - With all due respect to the souls buried by this bridge in downtown Auckland, you could not make a horror movie set look more authentic than this cemetery. Moss-covered burial sites and cracked tombstones fill a slope under the historic bridge. The place was wonderfully peaceful. I sketched in the company of some pigeons while
- [New York workshop at the Oculus Transportation Hub](https://gabrielcampanario.com/workshops/new-york-workshop/)
- [Drawing workshop at Cole Art Studio](https://gabrielcampanario.com/workshops/drawing-workshop-at-cole-art-studio/)
- [Mukilteo Lighthouse](https://gabrielcampanario.com/urban-sketching-demos/mukilteo-lighthouse/)
- [Gas Works Park](https://gabrielcampanario.com/urban-sketching-demos/gas-works-sketching-tour/)
- [Historic Ships Wharf](https://gabrielcampanario.com/urban-sketching-demos/historic-ships-wharf/) - A visit to the historic boats mantained by Northwest Seaport volunteers on Lake Union offers plenty to learn about Seattle's maritime history.
- [Montlake Cut](https://gabrielcampanario.com/urban-sketching-demos/montlake-cut/) - We walk along the scenic Lake Washington Ship Canal Waterside Trail to find a perfect vantage point to draw the historic Montlake Bridge.
- [Downtown Kirkland](https://gabrielcampanario.com/urban-sketching-demos/downtown-kirkland/)
- [Community Art Day at Cascadia Art Museum](https://gabrielcampanario.com/talks/community-art-day-at-cascadia-art-museum/) - I was invited to give a presentation and lead a sketch walk at Cascadia Art Museum.
- [The little steamboat that could …](https://gabrielcampanario.com/the-seattle-times/the-little-steamboat-that-could/) - Sketched June 11 and Oct. 6, 2015When I arrived at the Center for Wooden Boats North Lake Union Workshop and Warehouse back in June, Team Puffin volunteers looked at me like I just dropped from another planet. “You haven’t taken a ride on the Puffin?” Puffin, a little steam launch built in 1906, is one
- [Time to put a lid on the I-5 canyon?](https://gabrielcampanario.com/the-seattle-times/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 taking in the views from the Pine Street and Boren Avenue overpass. Covering up the lanes like at Freeway Park and the Convention Center seems such a relatively low-cost no
- [Beware the Beard Papa’s cream puffs at Uwajimaya’s food court — you can’t eat just one!](https://gabrielcampanario.com/the-seattle-times/beware-the-beard-papas-cream-puffs-at-uwajimayas-food-court-you-cant-eat-just-one/) - Sketched Feb. 26, 2019 If I lived or worked closer to the Chinatown International District, I’d have trouble staying away from the Uwajimaya food court. Especially from Beard Papa’s bakery and its delicious cream puffs. The name of the pastry couldn’t be any better to describe the soft explosion of sweet taste that happens in
- [The Yesler Trolley Viaduct is now just a nostalgic bridge to our past](https://gabrielcampanario.com/the-seattle-times/the-yesler-trolley-viaduct-is-now-just-a-nostalgic-bridge-to-our-past/) - THE URBAN RUINS of the Yesler Trolley Viaduct in Leschi Park frame a leisurely scene of cyclists cruising up and down Lake Washington Boulevard South. To the naked eye, the iconic bridge might appear as a solid unit, but the triangular shape adorned with embossed arches is just a decorative wall. Its original purpose: to
- [Bellevue Wilburton Trestle](https://gabrielcampanario.com/pocket-sketchbook/bellevue-wilburton-trestle/) - For International @urbansketchers Week, I joined my sketching pals @davermorris, @dchammy, @macklinart11 and @roy.oblate for a fun outing in Bellevue, Washington. We drew an impressive historic railway trestle that has stood the test of time since it was built in 1904. These days, @kingcountyparks crews are fixing it up with a new deck and seismic
- [The House of Paul Revere](https://gabrielcampanario.com/pocket-sketchbook/the-house-of-paul-revere/) - After using my legs to run my best Boston marathon time yesterday, this morning I used my hands to make a sketch of the house of Paul Revere, the American patriot whose legendary midnight ride to alert that “the British are coming” on April 18, 1775 may be one of the most told stories of
- [Las Vegas](https://gabrielcampanario.com/travel-sketchbook/las-vegas/) - The New York New York Hotel Casino in Las Vegas. I can't really describe how unbelievable the sight of this place is. The buildings here are not just a facade, they are the real hotel towers where guests stay. I also came later in the day with some colleagues from the conference and we went
- [Point Fermin Lighthouse](https://gabrielcampanario.com/travel-sketchbook/fermin-point-lighthouse/) - Los Angeles is full of suprises. Point Fermin Park in coastal San Pedro is one of them. Sitting on a bluff overlooking the Pacific Ocean, a well-preserved lighthouse dating from the late 1800s presides over the grounds.
- [GRADA conference in Barcelona](https://gabrielcampanario.com/talks/back-where-i-grew-up/) - Meetup with urban sketchers from all over greater Barcelona. We sketched around my childhood stomping grounds in L’Hospitalet de Llobregat. An emotional encounter for me, felt like being among family. Thank you all! / Trobada amb urban sketchers de tot arreu Barcelona al carrers de la meva infància a L’Hospitalet de Llobregat. Ha estat emocionant,
- [Celebrating 10 years of Urban Sketchers Portugal](https://gabrielcampanario.com/talks/celebrating-10-years-of-urban-sketchers-portugal/) - Urban Sketchers Portugal invited me to join their 10th anniversary celebrations in Lisbon last week. About 150 sketchers from all over the country attended. And like any time you are with fellow urban sketchers, the shared enthusiasm for on-location sketching made the occasion unforgettable. Or, as I learned to say in Portuguese, “inesquecível.” Here are
- [Clermont-Ferrand Travel Sketchbooks Festival](https://gabrielcampanario.com/exhibits/clermont-ferrand-travel-sketchbooks-festival/) - I’m back in Seattle after a whirlwind trip to Clermont-Ferrand, a city in central France boasting the picturesque (medieval churches), the industrial (Michelin), the outdoorsy (snowcapped volcanoes!) and the best-known travel-sketchbooks festival in the world, Rendez-Vous Carnet de Voyage. Thousands of visitors come to this three-day event every November for a chance to meet invited
- [London urban sketchers anniversary](https://gabrielcampanario.com/sketchwalks/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 of fabulous London sketches (get your copy!). It was thrilling to be in such a major world capital in the company of so many fellow sketchers, especially after the past
- [Krider Prize honor from the University and College Designers Association (UCDA)](https://gabrielcampanario.com/talks/krider-prize-honor-from-the-university-and-college-designers-association-ucda/) - Here’s something exciting —and humbling— I’ve been meaning to share. A few weeks ago I was a speaker (and award recipient!) at #UCDA2019, the annual gathering of professional in-house graphic designers who work at colleges and universities in the U.S. The event was held in Portland. The University and College Designers Association (UCDA) was founded
- [Ballpoint pen sketches in Lisbon](https://gabrielcampanario.com/pocket-sketchbook/ballpoint-pen-sketches-lisbon-sept-2019/)
- [Victoria, B.C. Parliament](https://gabrielcampanario.com/on-location/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 iPad.
- [Mailbox Peak](https://gabrielcampanario.com/travel-sketchbook/mailbox-peak/) - This morning I joined my fearless trail-running buddies Ben and Ahmed for a power hike and trail-run to legendary Mailbox Peak near North Bend. It was my first visit to this popular hiking destination, and I was excited to squeeze in some sketching time when we reached the snowcapped mountain top. We went up the
- [Hot-dog stand sketch: a behind-the-scenes look at the process](https://gabrielcampanario.com/process/hot-dog-stand-sketch-a-behind-the-scenes-look-at-the-process/) - 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 Street in downtown Seattle. Read the full column: For the owner of Deez Dogz, it's all about connection (and cream cheese).
- [Sketcher Fest workshop 'Small is Beautiful'](https://gabrielcampanario.com/workshops/sketcher-fest-workshop/) - My workshop at Sketcher Fest was aimed at sketchers who want to capture their travel experience using a small sketchbook and very few tools. To embrace this minimalistic sketching lifestyle you need to travel light so you can whip out your sketchbook at any given moment. You need to learn to draw while standing up,
- [When a page is not enough to fit a sketch](https://gabrielcampanario.com/process/when-a-page-is-not-enough-to-fit-a-sketch/) - The sketch doesn't fit on the page? No worries. That happened to me the other day while I sketched longshore workers at The Port of Seattle. I drew the person quickly first, but made her too big in relation to the whole scene. As I continued drawing after she had to get back to work,
- [Sketch of Pacific Northwest painter Henry Stinson](https://gabrielcampanario.com/uncategorized/henrystinson/) - Henry Stinson is a well-known Pacific Northwest figurative painter based in Pullman, WA. Back in April I was teaching a sketching workshop there and I met him by chance at a coffee shop. Truth is, I didn't know who he was, but his wife, who was sitting next to him, quickly brought me up to
- [R.I.P. Chris Cornell](https://gabrielcampanario.com/uncategorized/may-19-2017/)
- [It's going to be an artful Thursday](https://gabrielcampanario.com/exhibits/its-going-to-be-an-artful-thursday/) - I have works on view (and for sale!) at two collective art shows opening this Thursday in Seattle. If you are around, it'd be great to see you at the artist receptions! Here's the info: Original Hits by Original Artists. An exhibit of totally fake album covers.May 4 – May 31, 2017 at 108 Cherry
- [Discovery Park lighthouse](https://gabrielcampanario.com/process/discovery-park-lighthouse/) - An experiment: I clipped a loose sheet of watercolor paper to the front and back covers of a gutted sketchbook. The result after adding watercolor in the studio:
- [Live from the ballpark](https://gabrielcampanario.com/pencil/live-from-the-ballpark/) - In this day and age of high-tech, instant tweets and Facebook posts, does sharing sketches live matter? Last night, I typed this post from the stands at Safeco Field, where the Seattle Mariners were winning 7-1 against the Angels in the top of the ninth inning. I used binoculars to make the sketch so I
- [Tsuga Art Gallery](https://gabrielcampanario.com/exhibits/tsuga-art-gallery/) - My sketcher pal Roy De León documented the exhibit opening at Tsuga Art Gallery in the best possible way.
- [Sketching the University of Washington oceanographic research ship](https://gabrielcampanario.com/process/sketching-an-oceanographic-research-ship/) - 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 process: Light drawing with H pencil; ink line with Carbon Desk Fountain pen on 11 x 14 inches sheet of 140lb Hot Press Arches watercolor paper; portraits done on pocket
- [Summer sketching workshop in Bothell](https://gabrielcampanario.com/workshops/summer-sketching-workshop-in-bothell/) - 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 all over the region and beyond: Seattle, Edmonds, Kirkland, Redmond, Gig Harbor, Bellingham, Whidbey Island, Berkeley and Boston. The weekend-long workshop included a private tour of the historic Hannan House
- [Sad farewell to 'bohemian rathole' from more affordable times](https://gabrielcampanario.com/the-seattle-times/sad-farewell-to-bohemian-rathole-from-more-affordable-times/) - No deposit. No background check. Monthly rent of $350, in cash, for a room within walking distance to work. Back in 2013, Skyler Wister, a young social worker desperately looking for affordable housing downtown, couldn’t believe his luck when he found this boardinghouse at 413 Minor Ave. N. in Seattle’s Cascade neighborhood. For three years,
- [Elephant Car Wash sign gets its own portrait](https://gabrielcampanario.com/process/elephant-car-wash-sign-gets-its-own-portrait/) - See full post in The Seattle Times: Passersby pay their respects as the beloved Pink Elephant packs its trunk.
- [A meta-sketching experience](https://gabrielcampanario.com/process/a-meta-sketching-experience/) - How do you call a sketch of something that is already a drawing or a painting? A meta sketch? If so, I did some meta-sketching for my latest column. As you can see in my "trophy shot," above, the subject of my sketch was a pretty big painting: a "tromp l'oeil" mural that welcomes visitors
- [San Lucas Road house](https://gabrielcampanario.com/uncategorized/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 of my very few attempts ever at working on canvas, which is something I really
- [Portraits of Santo Domingo](https://gabrielcampanario.com/travel-sketchbook/portraits-of-santo-domingo/) - Santo Domingo's Colonial Zone, home to the oldest European settlement in the Americas, reminded me a lot of my native country of Spain. First you have the churches from the 1500s and whitewashed facades. It's as if you were strolling a village in Andalucía or Extremadura. Then you have the friendly character of Spanish-speaking Dominicans.
- [Sketchbook memories from Highway 101 road trip](https://gabrielcampanario.com/travel-sketchbook/sketchbook-memories-from-highway-101-road-trip/) - The number of amazing scenic locations along the Pacific coast between Seattle and San Francisco is too many to count. How do you even start planning a road trip? For our week-long vacation, my wife, Michelle, and I decided to make stops in Newport, Ore., and McKinleyville, Calif., before arriving to our destination, a hotel
- [Macchiatto at Cafe Ladro](https://gabrielcampanario.com/uncategorized/may-11-2017/)
- [Pocket urban sketching at the Amazon campus](https://gabrielcampanario.com/workshops/pocket-urban-sketching-at-the-amazon-campus/) - On Feb. 11, 2017 I taught a Pocket Urban Sketching worskhop at the Amazon Campus in Seattle. The class kicked off the #USk10x10 series of workshops that Urban Sketchers is organizing across the globe in 2017. Urban Sketchers is a non-profit organization dedicated to fostering the art of on-location drawing and inspiring people to "show
- [Pocket Urban Sketching at Hing Hay Park](https://gabrielcampanario.com/workshops/pocket-urban-sketching-at-hing-hay-park/) - Summary: A crash course in urban sketching with a basic tool kit consisting of a pocket sketchbook, pencil, pen and watercolors. If you are interested in becoming a better artist and urban sketcher like I was more than a decade ago, there’s nothing like drawing on a pocket sketchbook to fuel your motivation and sharpen
- [Workshop rewind: Sketching weekend in Bothell](https://gabrielcampanario.com/workshops/workshop-rewind-sketching-weekend-in-bothell/) - A weekend-long sketching class in a walkable urban setting with an interesting mix of architecture, history and nature. That’s the basic idea behind the workshop I have started teaching in Bothell, Washington, a charming little river town 15 miles north of Seattle. It is hosted by Cloud 9, an all-ages art school run by super-organized and talented local
- [Pocket Urban Sketching workshop booklet](https://gabrielcampanario.com/workshops/pocket-urban-sketching-workshop-booklet/) - 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 you can fit on every spread if you know how to simplify a scene. To illustrate some of my tips, I created a flyer with real-size reproductions of a variety
- [Lincoln Park troll](https://gabrielcampanario.com/pocket-sketchbook/lincoln-park-troll/) - Bruun Idun is holding a twisted piece of driftwood and playing an Orca song. The whimsical troll sculpture, one of six installed in the PNW by Danish recycle artist Thomas Dambo last year, is tucked away under big trees near the Lincoln Park shoreline in West Seattle. The other trolls are in Vashon Island, Bainbridge
- [Portland memories of sketching with Gérard Michel](https://gabrielcampanario.com/uncategorized/urban-sketching-symposium-in-portland/) - I did the sketch you see above the last day of the Symposium. We were sketching right outside PNCA, the art school that hosted the event. Just a block up the street, a band played at a restaurant and we could hear the music as we sat silently, concentrated in our drawings. It was a great moment.
- [Bye, bye, Republican Street houses](https://gabrielcampanario.com/pocket-sketchbook/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 to the Department of Neighborhoods it dates back to 1890.
- [24 hours in Rome](https://gabrielcampanario.com/travel-sketchbook/24-hours-in-rome-2/) - An overnight stay in Rome is enough to get a couple of sketches done.
- [Linville Falls, North Carolina](https://gabrielcampanario.com/travel-sketchbook/linville-falls/) - Spent the afternoon hiking to the Linville Falls in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina. Then, sketching heaven happened.
- [Fall workshop in Bothell](https://gabrielcampanario.com/workshops/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 of smiles, including mine! The first day I taught how to break down a complex scene into simple shapes, and how to insert the complexity back into the drawing. I
- [Sketching workshop at corrections center in Gig Harbor](https://gabrielcampanario.com/workshops/sketching-workshop-at-womens-jail-in-gig-harbor/) - Last week, a group of Seattle urban sketchers and I visited the jail where these women are incarcerated, the Washington Corrections Center for Women in Gig Harbor. About 30 inmates participated in our workshop and we shared a lot of laughs during the drawing exercises, which included blind-contour portraits -- drawing each other without looking at
- [Urban Sketching on foot class at the School of Visual Concepts](https://gabrielcampanario.com/workshops/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](https://gabrielcampanario.com/workshops/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 for the invitation.
- [Sketching Cascadia at Graphite Art Gallery](https://gabrielcampanario.com/exhibits/sketching-cascadia/) - For Immediate ReleaseContact: Tara ShadduckEmail: graphite.tara@gmail.comPhone: 425.510.1097 “A sketch drawn from life is one of the most authentic forms of visual expression.”– Gabi Campanario, artist A collection of more than 100 sketches by regional sketch artists capture a sense of place and time in the Pacific Northwest in the exhibit Sketching Cascadia on display at Graphite Arts
- [Car talk in Columbia City](https://gabrielcampanario.com/the-seattle-times/car-talk-in-columbia-city/) - I’m not what you would call a car aficionado, but cars run in my family. My dad was an autoworker for 35 years in Spain and I married the daughter of a retired GM autoworker who also collects classic cars, like this old Ford for example. I thought of both of them this week as I sketched
- [Architecture, People, and Nature sketching workshops in Victoria B.C.](https://gabrielcampanario.com/workshops/architecture-people-and-nature-sketching-workshops-in-victoria-b-c/) - Some rain, wind and colder than usual weather didn’t dampen the enthusiasm of participants who attended my urban sketching event in Victoria B.C. over the weekend. Here are some photos from the final sketchwalk and from the three workshops I offered about different urban sketching subjects: Architecture, People and Nature. Big thanks to my local
- [Workshop rewind: Small sketchbook, big scene at Hing Hay Park](https://gabrielcampanario.com/workshops/workshop-rewind-small-sketchbook-big-scene-at-hing-hay-park/) - Hing Hay Park is just a small square. It only takes a half-a-block in the heart of Seattle's Chinatown/International District. But the colorful place lives up to what its name means: Park of pleasurable gatherings. I recently spent a pleasant Saturday morning there teaching my pocket urban sketching class, a 3.5 hour crash course in
- [Greetings from Minnesota](https://gabrielcampanario.com/travel-sketchbook/greetings-from-minnesota/) - Seattleites who normally plan mid-winter trips to Palm Springs or Hawaii may have a hard time understanding why I went to Duluth, Minn., of all places, just a week ago. (That’s one of the reasons there’s no Sketcher column in the paper Saturday!) The occasion was to speak about my work as a sketch artist,
- [Living Desert Zoo and Gardens, Palm Desert, Calif.](https://gabrielcampanario.com/travel-sketchbook/palm-desert-california/) - You don’t get to sketch camels and giraffes every day.
- [Jimi Hendrix statue](https://gabrielcampanario.com/process/jimi-hendrix-statue/)
- [Lynnwood Heritage Park](https://gabrielcampanario.com/urban-sketching-demos/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: I meet a small group of registered participants at unique Seattle-area locations on Saturday mornings (Photos are from the event’s soft launch last Saturday at Lynnwood Heritage Park). ✔️ The
- [The Bean](https://gabrielcampanario.com/travel-sketchbook/the-bean/)
- [Marina Beach](https://gabrielcampanario.com/on-location/marina-beach/) - A glorious late afternoon at Marina Beach in Edmonds.
- [Line to Color workshop at WSU](https://gabrielcampanario.com/workshops/line-to-color-workshop-at-wsu/) - Spring and sketching go hand in hand. I spent a wonderful April weekend co-teaching a sketching workshop in Pullman, Washington. My partners were Frank Ching and Gail Wong and our host was professor Bob Krikac, of the Washington State University School of Design and Construction. Here are some photos.
- [Group sketch of 360-degree view](https://gabrielcampanario.com/pencil/group-sketch-of-360-degree-view/) - My portion of the group panorama.
- [Quick impression of São Paulo](https://gabrielcampanario.com/on-location/quick-impression-of-sao-paulo/) - A passerby took some photos of me while I sketched at Avenida Paulista and emailed them to me within hours. How nice is that! That gesture from a complete stranger left me with a great memory of my short passing through São Paulo.
- ['On Location: Drawing Every Day'  exhibit at Montserrat College of Art](https://gabrielcampanario.com/exhibits/at-montserrat-college-of-art/) - I've taken a little bit of the Northwest to the Northeast. Some of my Sketcher pieces are part of the exhibit "On Location: Drawing Every Day," at Montserrat Galleries in Beverly, Mass., where I travelled recently for a 3-day artist residency at Montserrat College of Art. I met students of the illustration program, attended the exhibit's artist reception and led
- [Transportation museum](https://gabrielcampanario.com/travel-sketchbook/transportation-museum/)
- [Penang, Malaysia](https://gabrielcampanario.com/travel-sketchbook/penang-malaysia/) - My first trip to Asia starts with a stop in Penang.
- [Summer of Seth](https://gabrielcampanario.com/travel-sketchbook/summer-of-seth/) - Family and friends rarely visit us in Seattle. Most of them live just too far away, either on the East Coast or Spain. But this summer, we hit the jackpot with a special guest. Our nephew Seth, a 19-year-old journalism student at Ohio University, stayed with us for almost three months. He spent his time
- [Puente de Gallicanta, Montemolín](https://gabrielcampanario.com/pocket-sketchbook/puente-de-gallicanta-montemolin/)
- [Historic Shell Gas Station in Issaquah, WA](https://gabrielcampanario.com/pocket-sketchbook/historic-shell-gas-station-in-issaquah-wa/)
- [1967 Chevy pickup under the rain](https://gabrielcampanario.com/pocket-sketchbook/1967-chevy-pickup-under-the-rain/) - 1967 Chevy C-10 pickup truck on my father-in-law's driveway. It started raining but I'm glad I didn't give up. Ink on #stillmanandbirn softcover Zeta series pocket sketchbook.
- [The Australasian Sketcher periodical reported "with pen and pencil" in the late 1800s](https://gabrielcampanario.com/inspiration/the-australasian-sketcher-periodical-reported-with-pen-and-pencil-in-the-late-1800s/) - I hardly came up with an original name for my sketching journal. A reader who recently travelled to Melbourne emailed me a photo of a much, much older instance where the word "Sketcher" featured big in newsprint. It shows a page from an illustrated periodical of the late 1800s called The Australasian Sketcher. (He stumbled
- [Vancouver skyscrapers](https://gabrielcampanario.com/pocket-sketchbook/vancouver-skyscrapers/)
- [Porto. Ponto. A travelogue in ten sketches and twenty-one words.](https://gabrielcampanario.com/pocket-sketchbook/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.
- [35 hours in Rio de Janeiro](https://gabrielcampanario.com/travel-sketchbook/35-hours-in-rio-de-janeiro/) - My stay in Rio during my recent trip to Brazil for the Urban Sketching Symposium was very short, just about 35 hours, but quite memorable nonetheless. Here are some moments I recorded in my sketchbook. Exuberant locals strutting down the endless sidewalk along Ipanema beach. It was elbow-to-elbow at the mountaintop with the iconic statue
- [Ronald Ginther's watercolors of the Depression](https://gabrielcampanario.com/inspiration/ronald-ginthers-watercolors-of-the-depression/) - Ronald Ginther's watercolors are a rare visual document of the Depression years in the Seattle area. Ginther painted events he experienced in jails, homeless camps and demonstrations. I'm not sure how much he drew on the spot, but his works sure carry a level of emotion only a witness could convey. They remind me a
- [Small Sketchbook, Big Drawings (in Amsterdam)!](https://gabrielcampanario.com/workshops/small-sketchbook-big-drawings/) - Too big to draw. Too little time. Those thoughts may stop an urban sketcher from attempting to capture awesome scenes. Yet it can be done quickly if you learn to scale things down properly. That's the gist of the workshop I just taught at the 10th Urban Sketchers Symposium in Amsterdam, titled "Small Sketchbook, Big Drawings."
- [Ballard through the back door](https://gabrielcampanario.com/pocket-sketchbook/ballard-through-the-back-door/) - From the Ballard Locks to the bell, an illustrated tour. The Seattle Times, March 26, 2024
- [Bellingham’s ‘Acid Ball’](https://gabrielcampanario.com/travel-sketchbook/bellinghams-acid-ball/) - Bellingham’s Waypoint Park feels a bit like Gas Works Park in Seattle. A giant boiler from the old pulp mill that once occupied the site has been repurposed as the park’s centerpiece. While I sat to sketch it under cloudy skies, I saw some grownups posing for photos and little kids ran underneath the belly
- [World Wide SketchCrawl at Pike Place Market](https://gabrielcampanario.com/sketchwalks/world-wide-sketchcrawl-at-pike-place-market/) - Sunday was the 20th World Wide Sketchcrawl and a true group of Seattle sketchers met at Pike Place Market to go out and sketch. I had a blast. Go to the forums at SketchCrawl.com for more drawings from sketchers around the world.
- [Sketching with Ankrom Moisan architects](https://gabrielcampanario.com/sketchwalks/sketching-with-ankrom-moisan-architects/) - Architect and fellow urban sketcher Andika Murandi recently invited me to do a presentation about urban sketching at the Ankrom Moisan Architects Seattle office. The talk was brief, just an introduction about how I developed a daily sketching habit and how much fun it brings to my life to draw on my pocket sketchbook. Following the
- [Lunch special at Great Wall Mongolian BBQ in Vancouver](https://gabrielcampanario.com/travel-sketchbook/vancouver-bc/) - Denman Street in Vancouver’s Coal Harbor district is packed with Asian restaurants. Great Wall Mongolian B.B.Q. has something that gives it an edge over the rest: a bay window facing the street that allows passersby to see how the food is being prepared. I said passersby, but that would include dogs too, as you can
- [Orcas Island](https://gabrielcampanario.com/travel-sketchbook/orcas-island/)
- [Urban sketching crash course in drizzly Bellingham](https://gabrielcampanario.com/workshops/bellingham-urban-sketching-crash-course/) - 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 a place to take shelter: an entryway, a store awning, a covered passage. And sometimes these locations offer views that can be more interesting to sketch than the picture-perfect angles
- [Workshop in Porto](https://gabrielcampanario.com/workshops/workshop-in-porto/) - 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 days ago. The scenic rivertown in North Portugal is known for its wine industry and historic city center. For sketchers, it couldn’t be a better playground. From iron bridges to Baroque
- [Cool Northwest  hues at Meadowdale Beach](https://gabrielcampanario.com/pocket-sketchbook/cool-northwest-hues-at-meadowdale-beach/) - June gloom has spilled a bit into July. But I’m OK with that. It still looks beautiful by the Puget Sound.
- [UW greenhouse](https://gabrielcampanario.com/pocket-sketchbook/uw-greenhouse/) - The nice folks at the @uwbiogreenhouse hosted a recent @uskseattle sketch outing. I hope I don’t get in trouble for coloring all my plants blue!
- [Steam clock](https://gabrielcampanario.com/travel-sketchbook/steam-clock/) - A must-see spot in Vancouver, B.C.
- [The Bean and the Corn Cob Towers](https://gabrielcampanario.com/travel-sketchbook/the-bean-and-the-corn-cob-towers/)
- [Puy de Dome](https://gabrielcampanario.com/travel-sketchbook/puy-de-dome/) - When in Clermont-Ferrand, a little hike to Puy de Dome is always a good way to start the day, especially in the company of good sketcher friends like @cyrille_briand and his wife Claudie. Did the same last year with @jameshobbsart but it was so blustery at the top that we couldn’t sketch. My fountain pen
- [Point No Point Lighthouse](https://gabrielcampanario.com/travel-sketchbook/point-no-point-lighthouse/) - First sketch of 2024 during a family walk to Point No Point Lighthouse on the northern tip of the Kitsap peninsula. Beautiful January day. Micron PN on #hahnemuehle pocket size travel journal.
- [Vintage machines come alive at computer museum in Sodo](https://gabrielcampanario.com/the-seattle-times/vintage-machines-come-alive-at-computer-museum-in-sodo/) - My tech-loving son has set an ambitious goal for his sixth-grade “passion project” at school: to build his own PC. While he tries to get creative with sourcing parts on an 11-year-old’s budget, we decided to visit the Living Computer Museum in Sodo for an educational tour of the history of computers. What makes the
- [Between global voyages, this oceanographic research ship docks at Portage Bay ](https://gabrielcampanario.com/the-seattle-times/between-global-voyages-this-oceanographic-research-ship-docks-at-portage-bay/) - 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 weeklong research trip off the coast of Oregon. It’s rare to see the impressive oceanographic research ship in Seattle these days. After a midlife overhaul, she spent more than two years
- [Passersby pay their respects as the beloved Pink Elephant packs its trunk](https://gabrielcampanario.com/the-seattle-times/passersby-pay-their-respects-as-the-beloved-pink-elephant-packs-its-trunk/) - 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 set in, I notice that half of its neon tubes are dark. But the day is still light enough to see trash strewn all over, and the poignant word tagged
- [Ballpoint pen sketches, Montemolín](https://gabrielcampanario.com/travel-sketchbook/ballpoint-pen-sketches-montemolin/)
- [For the owner of Deez Dogz, it's all about connection (and cream cheese) ](https://gabrielcampanario.com/the-seattle-times/for-the-owner-of-deez-dogz-its-all-about-connection-and-cream-cheese/) - 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,” says Betty Aklilu, the friendly food vendor at Deez Dogz on Fifth and Pike. At a time when life downtown is eerily quiet due to the pandemic, Aklilu’s stand reminds us
- [Back to my old stomping grounds in SoCal](https://gabrielcampanario.com/travel-sketchbook/back-to-my-old-stomping-grounds-in-socal/) - A recent family vacation in Southern California included a day hike in Joshua Tree National Park and an evening dinner at a nearby In-N-Out, a very popular burger chain that you can only find in California and a few other Western states. Southern California, or SoCal, as people call it sometimes, is very familiar to
- [Veterans among us](https://gabrielcampanario.com/pocket-sketchbook/veterans-among-us/) - "Breaking news: there are Veterans among us!" When my friend Sean posted that on Facebook this morning, I was immediately reminded that every November 11 in the U.S. is Veterans Day. The holiday honors people who have served in the armed forces, and is not to be mistaken with Memorial Day, a day to remember
- [Urban Sketchers Nantes](https://gabrielcampanario.com/travel-sketchbook/urban-sketchers-nantes/) - I had the most wonderful time meeting urban sketchers in Nantes during the 10th anniversary of the local group. The event was spearheaded by the super welcoming and super friendly Nicolas Loustalot.
- [Drawing among chickens](https://gabrielcampanario.com/travel-sketchbook/drawing-among-chickens/) - Bothell Country Village is a quirky outdoor mall in the Seattle suburbs where you can easily get lost wandering from store to store, especially if you like to browse antiques and handmade arts and crafts. You can get lost sketching, too! During a recent meetup of the Seattle Urban Sketchers group there, I was so
- [Gas Works](https://gabrielcampanario.com/pocket-sketchbook/gas-works/)
- [New York City treasures](https://gabrielcampanario.com/travel-sketchbook/new-york-city-treasures/) - My trip to New York last month had lots of highlights. I ran the marathon with my friend Ahmed, a fellow Mill Creek runner. I reconnected with Melanie Reim and Veronica Lawlor, two dear sketchers I've known for years — Melanie also introduced me to Steve Brodner, one of the most brilliant editorial cartoonists in
- [Easter in Mexico](https://gabrielcampanario.com/travel-sketchbook/mexico/) - 4 de Abril, 2023. Primera dibujada con @urbansketchers_qro. Los compañeros @demian_chavez (fotoperiodista y videógrafo excepcional autor de todos estos vídeos), @emececroquis, Jorge Escobar, Daniela Quintanilla y Noemí Ramírez me han recibido con los brazos abiertos y me han llevado a la plaza Jardín Guerrero. Emocionado por la calurosa acogida que he recibido y maravillado por
- [Canon Beach Haystack on pocket sketchbook](https://gabrielcampanario.com/pocket-sketchbook/canon-beach-haystack-on-pocket-sketchbook/)
- [Chicago in Your Pocket Sketchbook](https://gabrielcampanario.com/workshops/chicago-in-your-pocket-sketchbook/) - A pocket-size sketchbook and simple drawing tools are all you need to start recording impressions of your city or the places you visit. I shared this handy approach to urban sketching at the Urban Sketchers Chicago Sketch Seminar. The imposing lions outside the Art Institute of Chicago had some fun posing for sketching exercises and
- [Amsterdam Oosterdok](https://gabrielcampanario.com/on-location/amsterdam-oosterdok/) - Ballpoint pen sketch on a hot summer day while attending the 10th Urban Sketchers Symposium in Amsterdam.
- [Sketch of South Lake Union before Amazon](https://gabrielcampanario.com/pocket-sketchbook/sketch-of-south-lake-union-before-amazon/)
- [El Castillo de Montemolín](https://gabrielcampanario.com/pocket-sketchbook/el-castillo-de-montemolin/) - 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 the landscape of Badajoz, the Spanish province where my ancestors hail from. It started as a Muslim fortification in the XII century and it later became a Christian outpost when
- [Evening light on Montemolín castle](https://gabrielcampanario.com/process/evening-light-on-montemolin-castle/) - I can’t leave Montemolín without a mandatory sketch of “el Castillo.” The ruins of this medieval fortress, which is illuminated at night, are a point of local pride and a symbol of the town’s rich history. These days Montemolín is home to less than a thousand full-time residents, but many more visit every year to
- [Gyeongju's ancient royal tombs](https://gabrielcampanario.com/pocket-sketchbook/gyeongjus-ancient-royal-tombs/) - October 29, 2002. The royal tombs of Gyeongju dot the landscape of this ancient city on the east coast of South Korea. At first glance, they look like giant heaps of earth coming out of nowhere. But under each grassy mound lies a complicated structure of wooden beams and stones and the final resting place
- [Treasure hunters in Edmonds](https://gabrielcampanario.com/pocket-sketchbook/treasure-hunters-in-edmonds/) - “If you run the scanner over this one, it would probably come up as a bottle cap,” said Bob to his detectorist pal Mike. It was very nice to chat with these fellows after drawing them on my pocket sketchbook. They had only found what looked like an old penny covered in sediment and a
- [Boston Old State House](https://gabrielcampanario.com/pocket-sketchbook/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 open book about the American Revolution, with plenty of storytelling (and eye-catching!) landmarks. Outside this building, the Old State House, five civilians were killed in 1770 when British soldiers responded
- [<strong>At a COVID-19 testing site in Renton, driver after driver learns how to properly swab</strong>](https://gabrielcampanario.com/the-seattle-times/at-a-covid-19-testing-site-in-renton-driver-after-driver-learns-how-to-properly-swab/) - 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 wall, I’m standing between the lanes of the former vehicle-emissions station to sketch the scene. Many drivers aren’t swabbing their noses deeply enough. I keep hearing the worker to my
- [Months after protests rocked Capitol Hill, lingering concrete barriers disturb the peace](https://gabrielcampanario.com/the-seattle-times/months-after-protests-rocked-capitol-hill-lingering-concrete-barriers-disturb-the-peace/) - 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 the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis. I remember sketching protesters when the whole area looked very much like a war zone. You couldn’t get anywhere near the building, as streets
- [Seattle Maritime Academy’s floating machine shop is an old vessel with new purpose](https://gabrielcampanario.com/the-seattle-times/seattle-maritime-academys-floating-machine-shop-is-an-old-vessel-with-new-purpose/) - 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 to repair Army patrol boats during the Vietnam War. The bulky barge has been permanently docked at the Seattle Maritime Academy campus near the Ballard Bridge since 2010, when the school acquired it
- [Sketching Climate Pledge Arena](https://gabrielcampanario.com/pocket-sketchbook/sketching-climate-pledge-arena/) - 38-degrees is colder than usual in Seattle this time of the year. But I came well-equipped with my finger-less gloves to join the @uskseattle sketch outing at Seattle Center this afternoon. I also warmed up a bit walking all around @climatepledgearena before finding the point of view for my sketch. The venue, originally designed by architect Paul Thiry for
- [Green Lake, Seattle](https://gabrielcampanario.com/on-location/pencil-sketches-on-my-pocket-sketchbook/) - I like to fill pockets of time here and there drawing on my pocket sketchbook. Above are recent spreads done with a good-old 2B pencil. 1. Trees and geese near Green Lake. Sketched while sitting for a break after a walk with my daughter. 2. Old house in the neighborhood stands empty in a lot
- [Rhody Ridge Arboretum](https://gabrielcampanario.com/pocket-sketchbook/rhody-ridge-arboretum/) - This arboretum just around the corner from our street is very much a hidden gem in our neighborhood. It gets its name from large rhododendron trees that are hard to find elsewhere. On this summer day, I sat on a bench along the path and had enough time to make this sketch with a fountain
- [Sketch of green house in Greenwood](https://gabrielcampanario.com/process/sketch-of-green-house-in-greenwood/) - Spending a few hours working on a big sketch can be very gratifying, but it’s the small drawings I make during unexpected pockets of time that I often enjoy the most. I drew this charming little house in the Greenwood neighborhood from the car while my son checked out a clothing shop nearby. H pencil
- [June gloom over Gas Works Park](https://gabrielcampanario.com/on-location/june-gloom-over-gas-works-park/) - 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 drizzle and clouds but everyone seemed really excited for the return of the regular monthly sketch outings. (Seattle is the first major U.S. city to reach 70% COVID-19 vaccination rate
- [Edmonds Car Show](https://gabrielcampanario.com/pocket-sketchbook/edmonds-car-show/)
- [It’s Happy sails for this empty-nester couple who took to the sea](https://gabrielcampanario.com/the-seattle-times/its-happy-sails-for-this-empty-nester-couple-who-took-to-the-sea/) - 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 take long for the sleek Moody Decksaloon 45, a German-built vessel owned by Hugh and Lynn Creasy, to draw the attention of a few passersby walking along the waterfront on
- [Even on a hot summer day, these golfers are up for some clubbing](https://gabrielcampanario.com/the-seattle-times/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 the scorching temperature — 89 degrees — isn’t keeping people from hitting some balls at the neighborhood’s storied Jefferson Park Golf Course, one of the city’s best-known public golf courses, established
- [From pencil to ink](https://gabrielcampanario.com/process/from-pencil-to-ink/) - 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 like to use an H pencil for that part of the process. The pencil marks are like the safety net that prevents the tightrope walker from hitting the ground if
- [Kenneth Hahn State Recreation Area](https://gabrielcampanario.com/pocket-sketchbook/kenneth-hahn-state-recreation-area/) - Oil rig in motion across Kenneth Hahn State Recreation Area in Los Angeles.
- [A research workhorse](https://gabrielcampanario.com/process/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 Seattle area, a land of beautiful lakes and waterscapes, has heightened my curiosity for ships of any kind, whether they are moored at the marina or sitting in a parking
- [Meet my fellow Seattle sketchers](https://gabrielcampanario.com/sketchwalks/meet-my-fellow-seattle-sketchers/) - Last Sunday was the first official sketchcrawl organized by USk Seattle. The turnout was great with 14 people getting together at 11 a.m. at Fishermen's Terminal. We are planning to meet every third Sunday of the month to sketch together in the spirit of Urban Sketchers. Below is one of the drawings I did.
- [Ballard Bell in pencil and pixels](https://gabrielcampanario.com/pencil/ballard-bell-in-pencil-and-pixels/) - This bell tower is a landmark in Ballard, a Seattle neighborhood that was its own independent city back in the early 1900s. The bell was salvaged from the town's city hall building way back when it was demolished. The timing to share this drawing couldn't be any better. Today is Norway Day, and many Ballard residents will
- [King Street Station on a chilly morning](https://gabrielcampanario.com/pocket-sketchbook/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 much lately. My hand was shaking after about 90 minutes sizing, penciling and inking this view of the 115-year-old depot and its singular tower, which was inspired by St. Mark’s
- [Marina Beach Park, Edmonds](https://gabrielcampanario.com/pocket-sketchbook/marina-beach-park-edmonds/)
- [H-Mart food court](https://gabrielcampanario.com/pocket-sketchbook/h-mart-food-court/) - Sketched while getting a delicious Vietnamese beef sandwich and pho at the H-Mart Asian food court in Lynnwood. This is a place I come to with my family from time to time. Always tasty food and a fun experience to record in my pocket sketchbook.
- [An old rail bridge and a bat box](https://gabrielcampanario.com/pocket-sketchbook/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 sketcher pals, Dave and Roy, and I aren’t deterred by the weather either. We are here sketching the old rail bridge that crosses over the river and the pedestrian path.
- [Kirkland’s Heritage Hall turns 100](https://gabrielcampanario.com/pocket-sketchbook/kirklands-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 as a gateway to a beautiful park with breathtaking panoramic views of Lake Washington and Seattle. I love the simple geometry of the Greek revival facade: a triangle (the pediment),
- [Amazon vs. Mother Nature](https://gabrielcampanario.com/pocket-sketchbook/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 of snow-covered houses was beautiful, and I was all bundled up and wearing my fingerless gloves, ready to put pen to paper. But I didn’t draw a thing. The cold
- [U-District boarded-up house](https://gabrielcampanario.com/on-location/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 talented artist and illustrator who recently reached out to learn more about my career trajectory. I hope we'll get to sketch together again soon.
- [Light rail is coming](https://gabrielcampanario.com/pocket-sketchbook/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. After walking around the construction site for 15 or 20 minutes, I'm afraid that no good vantage point will materialize. But, eventually, I find a spot that affords me an
- [An arms race: A vaccine clinic works swiftly to inoculate a diverse crowd in Kent](https://gabrielcampanario.com/the-seattle-times/an-arms-race-a-vaccine-clinic-works-swiftly-to-inoculate-a-diverse-crowd-in-kent/) - “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 is part of a team of health professionals administering a second dose of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine to a diverse crowd at Hillside Church in Kent. The five-hour clinic is
- [La Push](https://gabrielcampanario.com/pocket-sketchbook/la-push/) - A quiet morning in La Push, Washington, listening to the sound of the Pacific Ocean and sketching one of many enormous driftwood logs that fill the beach.
- [A mini-Seafair air show at 'Lake Weaver'](https://gabrielcampanario.com/the-seattle-times/a-mini-seafair-air-show-at-lake-weaver/) - Sketched July 18, 2013 It’s like a miniature Seafair air show. At speeds ranging from 30 to 50 mph, little radio-controlled floatplanes loop and twist over Lake Washington. They are piloted by about a dozen hobbyists standing on the Ferdinand Street Boat Launch near Seward Park. Boeing retiree Dick Weaver, the man squinting to see
- [Triangle house: a slice of weird Seattle](https://gabrielcampanario.com/the-seattle-times/triangle-house-a-slice-of-weird-seattle/) - Sketched March 12 and 17, 2015 Welcome to the Egan House, the latest addition to my list of delightfully weird Seattle. The $2,300 month-to-month rental includes unreachable built-in shelves high on the wall and a door-to-nowhere on the second floor. More oddities: a cantilevered roof over the entrance, a birdhouse crowning the triangular facade and
- [Sketching news roundup: Sevilla opera; Qatar; New York Reawakens book; On the Spot contributors wanted](https://gabrielcampanario.com/uncategorized/1725/) - Hello readers, greetings from Barcelona. I’ll tell you why I am here in a second, but first, here’s a new roundup of inspiring sketching news: Live from the opera On November 4, during a general rehearsal of the opera “Robert Devereux” at the legendary Teatro de la Maestranza in Sevilla, 60 sketchers used small lamps
- [Veni, vidi, sketched it](https://gabrielcampanario.com/uncategorized/bullitt-fireplace-sketch/) - 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, the rain and clouds didn’t cooperate but my running buddies introduced me to a cool historic landmark on Squak Mountain: The fireplace remnants of an old cabin once owned by
- [Why I quit fountain pens (for a while) and picked a Bic pen](https://gabrielcampanario.com/tools/why-i-quit-using-fountain-pens-most-of-the-time-and-picked-up-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 done, I told myself. Fountain pens, especially those with flexible nibs, create thin and thick strokes that can make a sketch more expressive and lively. The problem with fountain pens,
- [IKEA scenes sketched with Procreate Pocket app](https://gabrielcampanario.com/uncategorized/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 with the color, going with the company’s signature blue and yellow, instead of the actual colors. Can urban sketching get any more convenient?
- [Jumping into a drawing while my friends jump into a lake](https://gabrielcampanario.com/pocket-sketchbook/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 for a swim after a 5-mile run up to this gorgeous piece of wilderness. I took a pass on swimming and jumped into sketching instead. As I observed the scene,
- [A sketcher's take from Bothell workshop](https://gabrielcampanario.com/videos/sketchers-take-on-bothell/) - 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 historic tree on Main Street, the vacuum robot outside the Vac Master shop, Hillcrest Bakery and the Bothell Historical Museum are some of the locations where workshop participants got to
- [Direct to watercolor online challenge](https://gabrielcampanario.com/on-location/direct-to-watercolor-online-challenge/) - 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 Stillman & Birn Zeta series pocket sketchbook.
- [Procreate Pocket for iPhone gets major upgrade](https://gabrielcampanario.com/uncategorized/procreate-pocket-for-iphone-gets-major-upgrade/) - 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 the app is very similar to the iPad app. You can’t use the Apple Pencil with it, but still, wow! Here's a link to a story about it and some
- [From sketch to illustration](https://gabrielcampanario.com/process/from-sketch-to-illustration/) - I recently redrew one of my pocket sketchbook drawings to illustrate one of my Seattle Times posts. Here's the sketch, done on location and colored afterwards from memory. And here's the new version drawn on the iPad with the Procreate app. This was an interesting experiment, but I'm unsure I will try it again.
- [Hello Brick House](https://gabrielcampanario.com/videos/hello-brick-house/) - Sitting on the grass in front of my father-in-law’s house. Bic pen and watercolor on Zeta Series Stillman & Birn pocket sketchbook. 1 minute 10 seconds time-lapse video.
- [Adding watercolor to line sketch](https://gabrielcampanario.com/videos/adding-watercolor-to-line-sketch/)
- [My sketching tools](https://gabrielcampanario.com/tools/my-sketching-tools/) - What type of pen do you use to sketch? It's a common question among artists and drawing enthusiasts. If you follow my work, you may also be curious about the tools I use. My answer to the "pen question," as I like to call it, has changed over the years. When I started out, I
- [Up close with the Mayan Queen](https://gabrielcampanario.com/uncategorized/up-close-with-the-mayan-queen/)
- [Taking light and shade for a ride](https://gabrielcampanario.com/uncategorized/taking-light-and-shade-for-a-ride/) - I had a productive evening commute sketching on my iPhone today. This 30-minute portrait with ProCreate Pocket is the result of just a few glances at a fellow commuter sitting at an angle across from me, therefore it doesn't quite resemble what he really looked like. It was mostly an exercise in capturing the contrast
- [Pixels over coffee](https://gabrielcampanario.com/uncategorized/pixels-over-coffee/)
- [Taking ProCreate Pocket for a ride](https://gabrielcampanario.com/uncategorized/taking-procreate-pocket-for-a-ride/) - So I've discovered that the iPad app I use for my digital urban sketching and illustrations (ProCreate) also has a pocket version for iPhone! How could I resist! Here are some of the digital pocket sketches I've done with it so far during my commute. (Sketched with a Wacom Intuos Creative Stylus.)
- [Same boat, different takes](https://gabrielcampanario.com/uncategorized/same-boat-different-takes/) - I rarely sketch the same subject twice, let alone three times, over a short period of time. But that’s what happened recently when I drew the Arthur Foss, a historic tugboat moored on Seattle’s Lake Union. What does it mean that I drew the same boat three times within just a few weeks!? It’s easy
- [A taste of California in the U-District](https://gabrielcampanario.com/uncategorized/a-taste-of-california-in-the-u-district/) - International burger chain CaliBurger opened its first Seattle location last fall. It’s on University Way Northeast, the popular U-District arterial better known as the Ave. My son and I were around the area a few Sundays ago and gave it a try. The burgers and fries were really tasty. The shakes, not so much. The
- [Extremadura via iPad](https://gabrielcampanario.com/uncategorized/extremadura-via-ipad/) - I made these sketches just a couple of weeks ago while visiting family in Spain. They show the 900-year-old ruins of a castle in Montemolin, a tiny village in Extremadura where my parents were born and returned to after decades living in Barcelona. I used the Procreate app and a Wacom Intuos Stylus on an
- [Seattle Sketcher, in book form](https://gabrielcampanario.com/books/seattle-sketcher-in-book-form/) - Here's a peek inside my Seattle Times book, in case you don't have your own copy yet. My favorite thing about it: The sketches appear much larger and sharper than in newsprint, and many include the marginal notes and color splashes that I usually remove before publication. That's one aspect about the book noted in
- [The legacy of illustrator Miroslav Sasek](https://gabrielcampanario.com/inspiration/the-legacy-of-illustrator-miroslav-sasek/) - Miroslav Sasek, a Czech-born artist, was trained as an architect and made a career in children's literature with books that depict city life around the world. Being an urban sketcher, it's impossible not to find Sasek's charming renditions of buildings, cars and city dwellers so inspiring. According to the fan site "This is M. Sasek"
- [Sneak preview of The Urban Sketching Handbook](https://gabrielcampanario.com/books/2705-2/) - My handbook on Architecture sketching isn't out until Oct. 15, but here's a look at an early copy I received from the nice folks at Quarry Books. I think it looks great! I love how the designers have packaged the book. (A shout-out to Quarry Books' art directors and the designers at StudioInk.) The main six chapters offer my
- [A treasure trove of Life magazines online](https://gabrielcampanario.com/inspiration/a-treasure-trove-of-life-magazines-online/) - I have a bunch of old Life magazines at home that I've been browsing recently in search of inspiration. Whenever I find work that catches my eye, I mark it with a post-it note. Here's an example: An article written and illustrated by Bill Mauldin, the creator of the award-winning "Willie and Joe" cartoon chronicling the
- [I see sinking ships](https://gabrielcampanario.com/uncategorized/i-see-sinking-ships/) - I first heard of a "sinking ship" building in reference to a Seattle parking garage built on a sloping street near the iconic Smith Tower. When you look at it straight on, the building resembles the bow of a ship sinking into the street. The optical effect is the result of a tricky perspective, the
- [Let one watercolor a day flow](https://gabrielcampanario.com/inspiration/one-watercolor-a-day/) - As far as drawing techniques go, watercolor can be really frustrating. As soon as the paint hits the paper, it seems to take a life of its own. Wait for it to dry, and the results may be far from what you intended. Before the frustration makes you reconsider the medium, I recommend that you
- [The awesome sketchbook of comic book artist Joshua Boulet](https://gabrielcampanario.com/inspiration/the-awesome-sketchbook-of-comic-book-artist-joshua-boulet/) - Joshua Boulet is a comic book artist, illustrator and sketcher originally from Texas whose work I just discovered a few months ago. I was particularly captivated by his self-published, 130-page book, Draw Occupy Wall Street, a graphic memoir he inked while living at Zuccoti Park, the epicenter of the Occupy movement in New York City. The best
- [Keys to Drawing](https://gabrielcampanario.com/inspiration/keys-to-drawing/) - I often check out art instruction books from my neighborhood library. But I never spend enough time with any one in particular before they are due back. Keys to Drawing, however, has me hooked from the start. I'm enjoying it so much I may just end up buying a copy to own. Dodson emphasizes a fundamental
- [The journalistic illustrations of Robert Weaver](https://gabrielcampanario.com/inspiration/2649-2/) - The late Robert Weaver is known for his journalistic approach to illustration. The artwork he published in magazines such as Sports Illustrated, Life and Esquire was based on sketches he drew on the field. This week I especially thought of Weaver's work when I was making some behind-the-scenes sketches of Opening Day at Safeco Field
- [The Melton Prior Institute for Reportage Drawing & Printing Culture](https://gabrielcampanario.com/inspiration/the-melton-prior-institute-for-reportage-drawing-printing-culture/) - I recently discovered the existence of an institute dedicated to reportage drawing: The Melton Prior Institute. It is named after Melton Prior, an English artist who worked for the London Illustrated News back in the days before photography, when newspapers relied on artists to produce visual records of news events. The institute's website is a gold mine of resources
- [Urban sketching as creative fuel](https://gabrielcampanario.com/inspiration/urban-sketching-as-creative-fuel/) - Urban sketching is mostly a hobby, but it can also benefit many people in their professional occupations. In his new book, Freehand Drawing and Discovery ($65, Wiley & Sons), urban designer and educator Jim Richards gives urban sketching his stamp of approval as a tool that can help architects, urban designers and creative professionals throughout their careers.
- [The spirit of urban sketching](https://gabrielcampanario.com/uncategorized/the-spirit-of-urban-sketching/) - The way I see it, being an urban sketcher isn't merely about drawing cities, big or small, urban or rural, with a pen or with your fingers on an digital tablet. It's about drawing places that can be put on a map, and everything that happens in those places. It's about showing the world with
- [Rendered Rooms: The Art of Mike Daikubara](https://gabrielcampanario.com/inspiration/rendered-rooms-the-art-of-mike-daikubara/) - Urban sketching enthusiasts relish the opportunity to draw a new city while on vacation or on a business trip. Mike Daikubara, an industrial designer based in Boston, took up the hobby in 2000 and is no exception. But he also likes to add another dimension to his travel sketching. At whatever hotel he stays for
- [NYT op-art by Jason Polan](https://gabrielcampanario.com/inspiration/nyt-op-art-by-jason-polan/) - The New York Times includes contributions from artists in its Opinion pages, a practice I wish many newspapers followed. These contributions are called "Op-Art" and consist of artwork that stands by itself, unlike the usual spot illustrations used to accompany articles. You can say that in the "op-art" pieces, the artist is the columnist. The
- [Goya: 'I'm still learning'](https://gabrielcampanario.com/uncategorized/goya-im-still-learning/) - Reading Goya's biography by Robert Hughes, I came across this exceptional black chalk drawing by the Spanish painter. Goya made the drawing not long before he died in 1828 at age 82. That's an unusual longevity for its time, which makes what he wrote in the drawing even more remarkable: "Aun aprendo." ("I'm still learning.") The drawing
- [Artists & Illustrators Magazine](https://gabrielcampanario.com/inspiration/artists-illustrators-magazine/) - Fellow urban sketcher James Hobbs asked me a few questions for an article he published in the summer issue of Artists & Illustrators magazine. Mainly, he wanted to know what was my original aim creating Urban Sketchers and whether I've been suprised by the rapid growth of the group. Lots of people ask me the same question, so I
- [The BBOOOOOOKKKK!!!](https://gabrielcampanario.com/books/the-bbooooookkkk/) - The title of this post comes from the subject line of an e-mail I received yesterday from my sketcher friend Teresa Lawson in Port Townsend, WA. Her excitement about The Art of Urban Sketching makes me realize that it was all worth the effort! I hope the book will inspire many artists like Teresa to keep sketching
- [The art of Paul Madonna](https://gabrielcampanario.com/inspiration/the-art-of-paul-madonna/) - San Francisco-based artist Paul Madonna is the author of "All Over Coffee," a drawn feature that runs every Sunday in the San Francisco Chronicle. His beautiful drawings of San Francisco's cityscapes, which he makes on location, sitting on a fold-up stool, were one of the things that inspired me to pitch Seattle Sketcher to my art editors at The Seattle Times in
- [Sylvia Plath, urban sketcher](https://gabrielcampanario.com/inspiration/sylvia-plath-urban-sketcher/) - I'm not familiar with Sylvia Plath's writing, but I just learned that the acclaimed American poet was also an urban sketcher. The Telegraph announces that a selection of her drawings will be exhibited for the first time at The Mayor Gallery in London, Nov. 2 through Dec. 16. The slideshow of Plath's sketches posted by the british newspaper shows the
- [61 ways to put your life into a Moleskine](https://gabrielcampanario.com/inspiration/61-ways-to-put-your-life-into-a-moleskine/) - People use Moleskine notebooks for all sorts of things. They take notes, doodle, glue receipts and even create three-dimensional paper sculptures out of their pages. Many artists and sketchers also swear by their Moleskines. Their format and portability makes them ideal for urban sketching. You can whip them out of your pocket at any given moment to
- [Interview on Portuguese TV show](https://gabrielcampanario.com/videos/interview-on-portuguese-tv-show/) - During the 2nd Urban Sketching Symposium in Lisbon in 2011, I was interviewed for Espaços e Casas, a Portuguese TV broadcast about real estate, architecture, interior design and public spaces.
- [Q&A with drawing professor Frank Ching](https://gabrielcampanario.com/inspiration/2714-2/) - During our monthly sketchcrawls in Seattle, Frank Ching is just another drawing enthusiast, passing his sketchbook around, giving feedback, asking questions and sharing the jovial atmosphere. But when you see his work, you realize that Frank is no accidental sketcher. Over 35 years, he has taught generations of architects how to draw and has written numerous best-selling books about
- [Interview with El País: Cómo mirar a través de un lápiz](https://gabrielcampanario.com/uncategorized/interview-with-el-pais-como-mirar-a-traves-de-un-lapiz/) - Discovering this article and video in El País today was like unwrapping a Christmas gift that got lost under the tree. What a nice surprise to end the year! Ana Alfageme, a veteran journalist at the largest Spanish daily and currently their social media editor, interviewed me last month in Valencia, where I was attending
- [Seattle Sketcher](https://gabrielcampanario.com/videos/seattle-sketcher/) - Seattle videojournalist David Albright shot and edited this video for the Capitol Hill blog. You can see me sketching and interviewing people for my newspaper feature Seattle Sketcher.
- [Illustrators as storytellers](https://gabrielcampanario.com/inspiration/illustrators-as-storytellers/) - My former college professor Juan Antonio Giner, who runs the newspaper consulting firm Innovation and is the lead editor of the World Association of Newspapers annual report, asked me to write an article about innovative news illustration for this year's issue, which I just got in the mail. I organized the story into different groups of illustrators
- [Urban Sketchers blog captures city life around the world](https://gabrielcampanario.com/uncategorized/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 York, San Francisco, Lisbon, São Paulo and Tokyo, Urban Sketchers portray metropolitan life — from
- [Capturing the urban life around you](https://gabrielcampanario.com/pocket-sketchbook/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 places. Someone in Moscow who wants to contribute said it's too cold to sketch out
- [Urban sketches at Flickr](https://gabrielcampanario.com/uncategorized/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 we enjoy documenting on our sketchbooks: urban sketches. Thanks to everyone who has already joined in

## Pages

- [Front](https://gabrielcampanario.com/)
- [Teaching](https://gabrielcampanario.com/teaching/) - Teaching In Seattle and wherever I travel, I draw on my sketchbook to record moments I’d like to remember. If you are looking to sharpen your sketching skills, I’m happy to help.My urban sketching and drawing workshops follow an incremental learning method, starting with composition and line and gradually developing an eye for tonal values
- [Bio](https://gabrielcampanario.com/bio/) - About Welcome!I’m the founder of Urban Sketchers and a former staff artist and columnist at The Seattle Times.As a visual journalist, my newspaper column, Seattle Sketcher, appeared in The Seattle Times from 2009 to 2021 and was the subject of a five-month solo exhibit at the Museum of History and Industry in 2014.As the founder
- [Mailing List](https://gabrielcampanario.com/mailing-list/) - Mailing List Please leave this field emptySubscribe to my Mailing List Check your inbox or spam folder to confirm your subscription. Archive December 22, 2025 December update November 5, 2025 What I’ve been up to since running the Berlin Marathon September 9, 2025 Berlin Sketching Tour – September 19 August 16, 2025 Let's sketch together:
- [GC MailPoet Archive](https://gabrielcampanario.com/gc-mailpoet-archive/) - December 22, 2025 December update November 5, 2025 What I’ve been up to since running the Berlin Marathon September 9, 2025 Berlin Sketching Tour – September 19 August 16, 2025 Let's sketch together: New tours
- [GC Mailpoetpage](https://gabrielcampanario.com/gc-mailpoetpage/) - [mailpoet_page]
- [Manage MailPoet Subscription](https://gabrielcampanario.com/manage-mailpoet-subscription/) - Link to subscription management page is only available to mailing lists subscribers.
- [GC Purchase Summary](https://gabrielcampanario.com/gc-purchase-summary/)
- [Calendar](https://gabrielcampanario.com/calendar/)
- [Elementor Page #8865](https://gabrielcampanario.com/elementor-page-8865/)
- [test workshops page](https://gabrielcampanario.com/test-workshops-page/) - Artist Talks Books Exhibits Inspiration News All
- [tttt](https://gabrielcampanario.com/tttt/) - test test
- [test page](https://gabrielcampanario.com/test-page/) - sdfsadfsdf
- [](https://gabrielcampanario.com/8839-2/)
- [all products](https://gabrielcampanario.com/all-products/)
- [](https://gabrielcampanario.com/8588-2/)
- [Content restricted](https://gabrielcampanario.com/content-restricted/) - [wcm_content_restricted]
- [Store](https://gabrielcampanario.com/store/)
- [Privacy Policy](https://gabrielcampanario.com/privacy-policy/) - Who we are Our website address is: http://gabrielcampanario.com. Comments When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection. An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided
- [Cart](https://gabrielcampanario.com/cart/)
- [Sample Page](https://gabrielcampanario.com/sample-page/) - This is an example page. It's different from a blog post because it will stay in one place and will show up in your site navigation (in most themes). Most people start with an About page that introduces them to potential site visitors. It might say something like this: Hi there! I'm a bike messenger
- [Shop](https://gabrielcampanario.com/shop/)
- [Checkout](https://gabrielcampanario.com/checkout/)
- [My account](https://gabrielcampanario.com/my-account/)
- [The Great(er) Seattle Sketching Tour](https://gabrielcampanario.com/the-greater-seattle-sketching-tour/) - History Talk + Sketching demonstration + Drawing Together with Gabi Campanario Stay tuned for information about the first tour of 2023! ——————— Let's Sketch at Bothell Landing Park! Date: Saturday, Oct. 15, 2022 Time: 10 a.m. to NoonMeeting point: Meet at the park, in front of the historic Hannan House, home of the Bothell Historical Museum. Sign up early
- [](https://gabrielcampanario.com/6997-2/)
- [Sketchbook](https://gabrielcampanario.com/6985-2/)
- [Work](https://gabrielcampanario.com/gallery/) - A selection of columns published in The Seattle Times. An arms raceThe Seattle Times, June 13, 2021 A whole lot of lossThe Seattle Times, Jan. 31, 2021 Frankly speakingThe Seattle Times, Jan. 10, 2021 Books with a boostThe Seattle Times, Dec. 13, 2020 Route changesThe Seattle Times, Feb. 21, 2021 A fishing boat out of
- [Contact](https://gabrielcampanario.com/lets-talk/)

## Landing Pages

- [Elementor Landing Page #9565](https://gabrielcampanario.com/elementor-landing-page-9565/) - Books & Zines
- [Elementor Landing Page #8576](https://gabrielcampanario.com/elementor-landing-page-8576/) - Books & Zines

## Products

- [Drawn to graphite](https://gabrielcampanario.com/product/drawn-to-graphite/) - 5.5" x 8.5" 24 pages Black and white zine Side-stitched
- [Sketchbook Souvenir: France (Actual size)](https://gabrielcampanario.com/product/sketchbook-souvenir-france/) - In May of 2024 I spent nine days in France. I visited Paris and a few other places in Brittany and Lower Normandy. All the sketches from the trip are reproduced in actual size in this 24-page zine, including a glimpse of the Mona Lisa I drew at the Louvre while standing elbow-to-elbow with the crowd of fellow tourists. If you or someone you know has ever been to Paris or plans to visit, I think you'll enjoy browsing through this replica of my handy pocket sketchbook.
- [The Urban Setching Handbook: Architecture and Cityscapes](https://gabrielcampanario.com/product/architecture-and-cityscapes/)
- [Northgate Metro Bus Shelter](https://gabrielcampanario.com/product/northgate-metro-bus-shelter/) - When the original Northgate Transit Center opened in 1992, its design surely turned heads. "Not Quite Your Average Bus Stop," read The Seattle Times article announcing its opening. "From Interstate 5, it looks like the Ringling Brothers have pitched their tents just south of the Northgate shopping mall," wrote reporter Bob Lane. Today, the once-bustling shelter stands rather lonesome. Passenger service has shifted to the bus loop next to the new light rail station. Buses still roll through for layovers, but no-one hops on and off anymore. If you ever boarded one of those blue or green streak buses here, you probably have this whimsical bus stop etched into your memory. Sketched Oct. 18, 2025 8" x 10" Ink and watercolor This original will be signed and dated before being mailed to the buyer. The shipping cost is calculated at checkout.
- [SAM Hammering Man](https://gabrielcampanario.com/product/sam-hammering-man/) - The kinetic sculpture by Johnathan Borofsky represents the worker in all of us. It stands 48 feet tall at the University Street entrance of the Seattle Art Museum. Always pounding away, Hammering Man never fails to inspire me. It's a reminder that it takes work to make things happen, and that all jobs are important for society to function. This original will be signed and dated before being mailed to the buyer. The shipping cost is calculated at checkout. Sketched Oct. 10, 2025 8" x 10" Pen and ink
- [Fremont Troll](https://gabrielcampanario.com/product/fremont-troll/) - 8 x 10 inches. Pen and wash High quality archival art print on German Etching paper
- [Brackett's Landing South](https://gabrielcampanario.com/product/bracketts-landing-south/) - 11 x 14 inches. Pen and wash on 300 lb soft pressed Fabriano Artistico extra white watercolor paper.
- [Fremont Troll](https://gabrielcampanario.com/product/fremont-troll-2/) - Original monochrome drawing of Seattle's famous Fremont Troll, a public art sculpture in the Fremont neighborhood. 10 by 8 inches. Ink and wash.
- [Dick's Drive-In](https://gabrielcampanario.com/product/dicks-drive-in-2/) - Pen and ink wash on 300 lb soft pressed Fabriano Artistico extra white watercolor paper. 11 x 14 inches.
- [Fishing Pier](https://gabrielcampanario.com/product/fishing-pier/) - 11 x 14 inches. Pen and wash on 300 lb soft pressed Fabriano Artistico extra white watercolor paper.
- [The Urban Setching Handbook: People and Motion](https://gabrielcampanario.com/product/the-urban-setching-handbook-people-and-motion/)
- [The Art of Urban Sketching](https://gabrielcampanario.com/product/the-art-of-urban-sketching/) - The Art of Urban Sketching is both a comprehensive guide and a showcase of location drawings by artists around the world who draw the cities where they live and travel. Authored by the founder of the nonprofit organization Urban Sketchers (urbansketchers.org), this beautiful, 320-page volume explains urban sketching within the context of a long historical tradition and how it is being practiced today. With profiles of leading practitioners and discussions of the benefits of working in this art form, this inspiring book shows how one can participate and experience this creative outlet through modern-day social networks and online activity. You'll find more than 600 beautiful, contemporary illustrations, as well as artists' profiles and extended captions where these urban sketchers share their stories, how they work, sketching tips, and the tools behind each drawing. With sketches and observations from more than 50 cities in more than 30 countries, The Art of Urban Sketching offers a visually arresting, storytelling take on urban life from different cultures and artistic styles, as well as insight into various drawing techniques and mediums. Format: Trade Paperback 320 Pages ISBN: 9781592537259 Size: 8.50 in x 10.00 in x 1.00 in Published: February 1st, 2012 Imprint: Quarry Books
- [Mukilteo Lighthouse](https://gabrielcampanario.com/product/mukilteo-lighthouse/) - The grounds of the Mukilteo Lighthouse offer a perfect place to relax near the water on a late afternoon. I made this sketch over two days. The second day a couple approached me to ask me to take their photo. "We got married here 12 years ago," said the man. "If you can take our photo, that will give me some points." 8 x 10 inches art print on German Etching paper
- [Sketchbook Souvenir: France (Large size)](https://gabrielcampanario.com/product/sketchbook-souvenir-france-large-size/) - In May of 2024 I spent nine days in France. I visited Paris and a few other places in Brittany and Lower Normandy. This 24-page zine is an enlarged replica of a selection of pages from my 3 x 5" x 5 x 5" travel journal. The sketches include a glimpse of the Mona Lisa I drew at the Louvre while standing elbow-to-elbow with the crowd of fellow tourists, must-see Paris landmarks, views of iconic Mont-Saint-Michel and more scenes in pen and wash captured on the go.
- [Edmonds tide](https://gabrielcampanario.com/product/edmonds-tide/) - A view of the ferry dock in Edmonds. Drawn on location for the 2023 Sketcher Fest Edmonds poster. 11 x 12.25 inches art print on German Etching paper
- [Dick's Drive In](https://gabrielcampanario.com/product/dicks-drive-in/) - The Edmonds location of Dick's Drive In sketched on a summer evening. The original artwork was exhibited as part of the 2023 Edmonds and Beyond Plein Art show at Cole Art Gallery. 11 x 14 inches art print on German Etching paper

## MailPoet Page

- [MailPoet Page](https://gabrielcampanario.com/?mailpoet_page=captcha) - [mailpoet_page]
- [MailPoet Page](https://gabrielcampanario.com/?mailpoet_page=subscriptions) - [mailpoet_page]

## Categories

- [Uncategorized](https://gabrielcampanario.com/category/uncategorized/)
- [Books](https://gabrielcampanario.com/category/books/)
- [Exhibits](https://gabrielcampanario.com/category/exhibits/)
- [Inspiration](https://gabrielcampanario.com/category/inspiration/)
- [On location](https://gabrielcampanario.com/category/on-location/)
- [Pencil](https://gabrielcampanario.com/category/pencil/)
- [Pocket Sketchbook](https://gabrielcampanario.com/category/pocket-sketchbook/)
- [Process](https://gabrielcampanario.com/category/process/)
- [Sketchwalks](https://gabrielcampanario.com/category/sketchwalks/) - Photos and drawings from social sketch outings.
- [Seattle Sketcher](https://gabrielcampanario.com/category/the-seattle-times/) - A selection of columns published in The Seattle Times between 2009 and 2021.
- [Tools of the trade](https://gabrielcampanario.com/category/tools/)
- [Travel sketchbook](https://gabrielcampanario.com/category/travel-sketchbook/)
- [Videos](https://gabrielcampanario.com/category/videos/)
- [Workshops](https://gabrielcampanario.com/category/workshops/)
- [Urban Sketching Demos](https://gabrielcampanario.com/category/urban-sketching-demos/)
- [Talks](https://gabrielcampanario.com/category/talks/)
- [Illustration](https://gabrielcampanario.com/category/illustration/)

## Tags

- [Seattle](https://gabrielcampanario.com/tag/seattle/)
- [California](https://gabrielcampanario.com/tag/california/)
- [Washington](https://gabrielcampanario.com/tag/washington/)
- [Los Angeles](https://gabrielcampanario.com/tag/los-angeles/)
- [Bothell](https://gabrielcampanario.com/tag/bothell/)
- [Edmonds](https://gabrielcampanario.com/tag/edmonds/)
- [Mexico](https://gabrielcampanario.com/tag/mexico/)
- [London](https://gabrielcampanario.com/tag/london/)
- [Germany](https://gabrielcampanario.com/tag/germany/)
- [Boston](https://gabrielcampanario.com/tag/boston/)
- [South Korea](https://gabrielcampanario.com/tag/south-korea/)
- [Montemolín](https://gabrielcampanario.com/tag/montemolin/)
- [Spain](https://gabrielcampanario.com/tag/spain/)
- [Amsterdam](https://gabrielcampanario.com/tag/amsterdam/)
- [Chicago](https://gabrielcampanario.com/tag/chicago/)
- [France](https://gabrielcampanario.com/tag/france/)
- [New York](https://gabrielcampanario.com/tag/new-york/)
- [Portugal](https://gabrielcampanario.com/tag/portugal/)
- [Bellingham](https://gabrielcampanario.com/tag/bellingham/)
- [Orcas Island](https://gabrielcampanario.com/tag/orcas-island/)
- [Vancouver B.C.](https://gabrielcampanario.com/tag/vancouver-b-c/)
- [Italy](https://gabrielcampanario.com/tag/italy/)
- [Rome](https://gabrielcampanario.com/tag/rome/)
- [Brazil](https://gabrielcampanario.com/tag/brazil/)
- [Issaquah](https://gabrielcampanario.com/tag/issaquah/)
- [Penang](https://gabrielcampanario.com/tag/penang/)
- [North Carolina](https://gabrielcampanario.com/tag/north-carolina/)
- [Lynnwood](https://gabrielcampanario.com/tag/lynnwood/)
- [Pullman](https://gabrielcampanario.com/tag/pullman/)
- [Minnesota](https://gabrielcampanario.com/tag/minnesota/)
- [Victoria B.C.](https://gabrielcampanario.com/tag/victoria-b-c/)
- [Lisbon](https://gabrielcampanario.com/tag/lisbon/)
- [Las Vegas](https://gabrielcampanario.com/tag/las-vegas/)
- [Bellevue](https://gabrielcampanario.com/tag/bellevue/)
- [Kirkland](https://gabrielcampanario.com/tag/kirkland/)
- [Mukilteo](https://gabrielcampanario.com/tag/mukilteo/)
- [Auckland](https://gabrielcampanario.com/tag/auckland/)
- [Santiago de Compostela](https://gabrielcampanario.com/tag/santiago-de-compostela/)
- [Friedrichstadt](https://gabrielcampanario.com/tag/friedrichstadt/)
- [Mount Vernon](https://gabrielcampanario.com/tag/mount-vernon/)
- [Berlin](https://gabrielcampanario.com/tag/berlin/)
- [Badajoz](https://gabrielcampanario.com/tag/badajoz/)
- [Barcelona](https://gabrielcampanario.com/tag/barcelona/)
- [Caracas](https://gabrielcampanario.com/tag/caracas/)

## Product categories

- [Books & Zines](https://gabrielcampanario.com/product-category/books/)
- [Art Prints](https://gabrielcampanario.com/product-category/prints/)
- [Original Art](https://gabrielcampanario.com/product-category/originals/)

## Product tags

- [Edmonds](https://gabrielcampanario.com/product-tag/edmonds/)
- [Seattle](https://gabrielcampanario.com/product-tag/seattle/)