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  8/14/25 Los Angeles (photo reference) When I visited my nephew Jason at his newish home in L.A. last April, I took photos with the intent...

10/25/23 Ravenna neighborhood While I enjoy sketching pumpkins and other Halloween decorations at Swansons Nursery , I find I rarely sketch ...

  9/25/23 Metro Market parking lot, Wedgwood neighborhood The slender parking-lot maples at Metropolitan Market are on my annual leaf-peepin...

  8/8/23 The Little Beautiful Bridge, Montlake neighborhood Running an errand in the Montlake neighborhood, I drove under an old bridge flan...

7/30/23 Wedgwood neighborhood   While working on a sketch reportage project (which will likely be revealed soon), I have been doing some res...

7/4/23 Green Lake As a Seattle native who remembers many Fourths of July watching fireworks dressed in a raincoat or fleece parka, I still l...

  7/3/23 Northgate This type of apartment/condo building is all over Northgate – modern, boxy, and generally not of much interest to me to d...

  6/17/23 Columbia City South Seattle’s Columbia City neighborhood has traditional clocks and globe lamps on the sidewalks. The very first t...

5/22/23 Green Lake Bar & Grill, Green Lake neighborhood It’s been years since I last ate at the Green Lake Bar & Grill, mainly becau...

4/19/23 Green Lake neighborhood “When is a sketch done?” On her blog, Suhita Shirodkar recently asked that question and tried to answer it ...

  2/23/23 Maple Leaf neighborhood It was 31 degrees and overcast on trash day. I had no intention of sketching outdoors, but on my way home ...

2/21/23 Top Pot Doughnuts, Wedgwood neighborhood Fat Tuesday was a good excuse to have a donut. The Wedgwood Top Pot was almost as quiet as...

  2/18/23 Derwent Lightfast pencils in Stillman & Birn Zeta sketchbook  After making that portrait of Gabi with a secondary triad (whic...

2/15/23 Green Lake Park Although this is one of my simplest compositions of them, I’ve sketched these trees at Green Lake Park many times. T...

  2/16/23 Gabi on Zoom talking about sketch reportage Since last summer, Gabi Campanario has been publishing a Substack newsletter called O...

2/14/23 Green Lake My weekly walking partner and I had been touring other neighborhoods the past couple of months, but we’re back on track n...

  New walking-bag sketchbook: A6 Hahnemuhle Way back in April, I started using a 5 ½-inch square Hahnemühle sketchbook . The way I work wit...