I took my iPad and pencil out for sketching in Procreate at yesterday! It works pretty well, not awkward to hold while drawing and it fits in my sketching bag with my watercolor supplies, here is a very tall Hybrid Tea Rose I saw!

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Summer sketchbook: the old Knights of Pythias Lodge (1896) in Glen Rose, currently the visitors' bureau. One of those humid Texas afternoons where you're just trying to keep sweat out of your painting.




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Summer sketchbook: The sloop Friends Good Will at her berth at the Michigan Maritime Museum in South Haven. Replica and namesake of an 1810 sloop that participated in the War of 1812 on Lake Michigan.





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Realism and abstraction - from Point Lobos State Natural Reserve

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Drawing an old public bathing facility with the Amsterdam in the so called 'diamond' neighbourhood

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CityDance in last night, hosted by featuring samba music by

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Eleven years ago today the first Urban Sketching Symposium opened in Portland, a really fun and exciting few days, for me the first time I'd met my online urban sketching friends in person, plus meeting many new friends too.

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Thirteen years ago today (13!!!) I sketched Alamo Square in San Francisco, where I finally returned and sketched again last Saturday. A few new buildings in the background have sprung up in those intervening years.

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