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Bellingham’s ‘Acid Ball’

October 1, 2024

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

La Push

September 17, 2024

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

Point No Point Lighthouse

January 6, 2024

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

Orcas Island

July 28, 2023

Light rail is coming

August 19, 2021

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

Even on a hot summer day, these golfers are up for some clubbing

August 1, 2021

THE SUN IS beating down hard on Beacon Hill at the start of summer, a prelude to even warmer days ahead in the forecast. But

It’s Happy sails for this empty-nester couple who took to the sea

June 27, 2021

A GLEAMING sailboat named Happy is making a stop at the Port of Edmonds after a speedy sail at 11.2 knots from Bainbridge. It doesn’t

From pencil to ink

December 22, 2020

If you aim to make ink sketches with a certain degree of accuracy, it helps to block out the composition in light pencil first. I

Edmonds Car Show

September 9, 2019

Urban sketching crash course in drizzly Bellingham

August 28, 2018

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

Cool Northwest hues at Meadowdale Beach

July 2, 2018

June gloom has spilled a bit into July. But I’m OK with that. It still looks beautiful by the Puget Sound.

Line to Color workshop at WSU

April 22, 2014

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

Gabriel Campanario