Category Travel sketchbook
Canon Beach Haystack on 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.
Lunch special at Great Wall Mongolian BBQ in Vancouver
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…
Vancouver skyscrapers
Penang, Malaysia
My first trip to Asia starts with a stop in Penang.
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,…
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…
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…
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…