The Daily Sketch Journal Process

 

2/24/26 Alexa's Cafe, Bothell

I’ve already mentioned two animal portrait workshops I’ll be offering at ArtSpot this spring (one with brush pen and the second with colored pencils). I’m also teaching one this summer called Keeping a Daily Sketch Journal. After years of sporadic sketch journaling attempts that eventually lapsed, I finally figured out a process that “stuck,” and I’m excited to share it.

2/25/26

As I began pulling together a variety of sketch journal pages to show in the class handout, I started thinking about which types of pages might make the best examples. Developing a sketch journaling process is very personal; I don’t know which of my pages, if any, would resonate with others.

3/4/26 Cloudy Cafe, Ballard neighborhood

The main message I want to convey is simply this: What I’m showing here is just the way I do it – not the way it should be done. The only thing matters is finding one’s own way of doing it, and that only happens by trying different things.

3/20/26 documenting new glasses

9/28/25 photo reference