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,…
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…
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,…
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…
In the spirit of the season, one of the exercises during my latest iPad Drawing and Painting workshop at Cloud 9 Art School involved drawing…
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…
The Fall Edition of the weekend-long workshop that I started teaching at Cloud 9 Art School in Bothell back in March wrapped up with lots…
Glacials melt directly into this alpine lake in the North Cascades. The water is ice-cold. But that didn’t stop my friends Ahmed and Ben from jumping…
Red tiles. Blue tiles. Iron bridges. Baroque churches. Towering monuments. Thirsty lions. Sweet wine. A magic bookstore. Civic pride. Porto. Ponto.
All these years in the Pacific Northwest have taught me never to let rain dampen my sketching plans. Unless is cold and windy, there’s always…
