Category Workshops

Pocket Urban Sketching workshop booklet

The workshop I just taught at #USkPorto2018 was about using a pocket-size notebook for urban sketching. That format may seem small, but there’s a lot you can fit on every spread if you know how to simplify a scene. To…

Workshop in Porto

I had the privilege of teaching my Pocket Urban Sketching workshop to three groups of international sketchers during the 9th Urban Sketchers Symposium held in Porto a few days ago. The scenic rivertown in North Portugal is known for its wine industry and historic…

Summer sketching workshop in Bothell

The summer edition of my Cloud 9 Art School urban sketching workshop in charming Bothell, WA., attracted a great group of participants. They came from all over the region and beyond: Seattle, Edmonds, Kirkland, Redmond, Gig Harbor, Bellingham, Whidbey Island,…

Pocket Urban Sketching at Hing Hay Park

Summary: A crash course in urban sketching with a basic tool kit consisting of a pocket sketchbook, pencil, pen and watercolors. If you are interested in becoming a better artist and urban sketcher like I was more than a decade…

Workshop rewind: Sketching weekend in Bothell

A weekend-long sketching class in a walkable urban setting with an interesting mix of architecture, history and nature. That’s the basic idea behind the workshop I have started teaching in Bothell, Washington, a charming little river town 15 miles north of Seattle.…

Pocket urban sketching at the Amazon campus

On Feb. 11, 2017 I taught a Pocket Urban Sketching worskhop at the Amazon Campus in Seattle. The class kicked off the #USk10x10 series of workshops that Urban Sketchers is organizing across the globe in 2017. Urban Sketchers is a…

Line to Color workshop at WSU

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 and Gail Wong and our host was professor Bob Krikac, of the Washington State University…

Sketching workshop at women’s jail in Gig Harbor

Last week, a group of Seattle urban sketchers and I visited the jail where these women are incarcerated, the Washington Corrections Center for Women in Gig Harbor. About 30 inmates participated in our workshop and we shared a lot of laughs…