A Couple Sketches from Great Basin National Park

There are lots of cool things at Great Basin National Park, but the trees are amazing. Twisted by the wind and stunted by altitude, they are like living sculptures.

August - Gray Sketchbook Finished

August was a good month for sketching. I made it to several Urban Sketcher outings, including the 4th Annual West Coast Urban Sketchers Sketchcrawl in Tacoma, Washington. About 150 sketchers from the US and Canada attended the three day event!
I also finished the Strathmore gray toned book I have been using, which is my 3rd sketchbook this year. That is a record pace for me, and I am hoping to complete 4 by the end of the year. Clearly, I do more sketching than blogging...
I finished this book with a variety of techniques from quick ink sketches, compositional value studies and more finished drawings with colored pencil and collage on the gray paper. As usual, more at my Flickr site.

July Sketchbook Pages

July was the month that I finally settled in with this Strathmore gray toned sketchbook. I still wish the paper was a touch darker or lighter. It is such a perfect middle gray that neither black nor white really seems to pop on it. It is a terrific paper, however. Ink, graphite, color pencil and collaged materials all go down nicely. I think I will do another post with the collage drawings. So here are a few more pages of studies from July - just quick practice drawings.

Where Did June Go?

Well, I went camping - and the van did not break down.



I drank coffee, and I sketched my fellow caffeine addicts. And I went sketching with Seattle Urban Sketchers at Fisherman's Terminal. I have been dabbling with collage in this gray Strathmore sketchbook, and I used that in the sketch I did there.

May Sketches

King Street Station with Urban Sketchers.



Went to New York City. Ate at the Pastrami Queen TWICE.



Hello, contour line drawing.

Sketches from April

Went camping.



Drank coffee.



Oh, yeah. Florida.



Drew trees.

For anyone in the area who may be interested, I will be teaching 2 drawing classes at the Daniel Smith store on June 11 and June 18. The classes are part of a series offered by Daniel Smith this summer. For information on the classes visit the Daniel Smith Events page and click the "June" tab. http://seattledanielsmithevents.blogspot.com/

Marker Sketches from Costa Rica

Aagh! When I checked my poor, neglected blog, I realized how far behind I was in posting sketches. I never even finished up the ones from Costa Rica that I did in January!! So this is IT for Costa Rica. Moving on. If you want to see the rest of them, you will need to get yourself over to Flickr where I have every last little scribble that I did there. Hint: there is a handy button on the sidebar that will take you right to my photostream.