Bellingham’s ‘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…
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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.
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.
Orcas Island
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…
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…
It’s 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…
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…
Edmonds Car Show
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…
Urban sketching crash course in drizzly Bellingham
All these years in the Pacific Northwest have taught me never to let rain dampen my sketching plans. Unless is cold and windy, there’s always a place to take shelter: an entryway, a store awning, a covered passage. And sometimes…
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.