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Brier still riding high in the saddle
Sketched Aug. 15 and 22, 2012 If you go to this city park in Brier, bring your skateboard and your tennis rackets, and don't forget your horse. Carlos García rides his Mexican dancing horse at Brier...
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Pocket notebook: Olympic Sculpture Park, sketching with friends
A couple of 7.5" x 5.5" spreads from my pocket sketchbook, drawn with that 0.4 Pilot G-Tech-C4 pen I showed you last week. Olympic Sculpture Park: The opportunity to sketch great sculptures like these...
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Feasting on scenery at Ballard Locks
Sketched Sept. 2, 2012 Not many Seattle locations are as visually stimulating as the Ballard Locks. Just think of everything you can see there: fine engineering in action, boats of all shapes and...
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All dressed up for the wrecking ball
Sketched Aug. 29, 2012 Since the Tubs Sun Salon closed five years ago, its empty shell has become an eye-stopping display of graffiti in the middle of Seattle's U District. The collective artwork,...
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Sketching field notes: Selective color at Tubs
When you draw on location, you have the ability to decide what to put in and what to leave out. (No need to draw every single window!) That's one of my favorite things about sketching. You can...
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Thoughts of 9/11 at Garden of Remembrance
Sketched Sept. 11, 2012 [Click sketch to enlarge] The Garden of Remembrance in front of Benaroya Hall is dedicated to more than 8,000 Washington State war dead since World War II. On a day like today,...
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View of Mount Rainier from Emerald Downs
Sketched Sept. 3, 2012 [Click on sketch to enlarge] Remember that mini pocket sketchbook I blogged about recently? I'm really enjoying it. You'd think a 5" x 4" spread is too small to draw wide open...
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Space Needle contest should go for the gold
Sketched Sept. 7, 2012 [Click on sketches to see larger versions] Are you used to Galaxy Gold yet? That bright orange paint atop the Space Needle has grown on me, so much that now I don't want it to...
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Colorful days on the campaign trail
Politics is often not a very visual subject, but come election season, there's enough red, white and blue in the air to captivate anyone's attention. Campaign volunteers wave signs at football games...
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Sketching field notes: Visual context matters
It's unusual that a sketching assignment yields more drawings than I would want to include in a blog post. The extra material I'm talking about is the equivalent of what photographers would call...
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If bus drivers can stay patient, so can we
Sketched Sept. 20 and Oct. 9, 2012 Driving isn't my cup of tea, much less driving other people around, be it my kids to their school-bus stop every morning or anyone else. That's why I have special...
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Busing to the food bank on Metro Route 124
Sketched Sept. 20, 2012 You'll remember Metro bus rider Reginald Millender from last Saturday's post. The first day I met him, he was assigned to bus route 124, which goes from 3rd Avenue and Pike...
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A new purpose for 'Edith's House'
Sketched Oct. 16, 2012 The door of the gutted house was cracked open, but I didn't see Edith Macefield's ghost roaming around. You may remember her story. When Macefield died at age 86 in 2008, a...
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Must-see park in Tacoma teaches a history lesson
Sketched Oct. 14, 2012 Earlier this month I set foot in downtown Tacoma for the first time since moving to Seattle six years ago. I know, about time, huh? (Faithful readers of this blog may remember...
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Dinosaurs of the ivy league
Sketched Oct. 16, 2012 For most of the year, the Fremont topiary dinosaurs blend with all the greenery along the Burke-Gilman Trail. But as fall comes and the poplar trees nearby shed their leaves,...
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Next stop in Tacoma: Fort Nisqually
Sketched Oct. 14, 2012 That quick excursion around Tacoma I was telling you about last week sure turned out to be educational. Another highlight of the unplanned drive towards Point Defiance Park was...
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'Tis the season for urban logging
Sketched Oct. 24, 2012 [Click on sketches to view larger versions] Seattle arborist Jean-Luc Bengle sports long dreadlocks that swing in the air as he chainsaws a 110-foot Douglas fir growing...
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Retired fisherman not caught up in party lines
Sketched Oct. 30, 2012If you've seen Brian Mullen driving his little Ford Festiva around Seattle lately, you know who has his vote. The retired Seattle fisherman picks candidates, not parties, to...
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Invisible injuries grip young veterans
Veteran Timm Lovitt takes a moment of silence by a monument that welcomes veterans to Edmonds Community College. As an Invisible Wounds Trainer for the Washington Department of Veterans Affairs, Lovitt...
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Sketching field notes: Drawing and listening
[Click to see larger version]The young war veterans I wrote about in my last post were very gracious about being drawn and sharing their stories. While every sketching experience is memorable in its...
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