Seeing.Thinking.Drawing

In the Chinese Zodiac, this is the Year of the Horse, beginning on February 17, 2026 and marking the start of the 16-day Spring Festival.

In July of 2024, to commemorate 15 years of drawing on location, the Seattle Urban Sketchers met where it all began in 2009, at Fishermen’s Terminal, home of Seattle’s commercial fishing fleet, located on Salmon Bay between the Hiram M.

A few fragments of Rome drawn during my last days in Rome in the fall of 2023.

Fosse Ardeatine is a memorial cemetery and national monument located south of Rome where German occupation troops killed 335 civilians and political prisoners on March 24, 1944 in retaliation for an attack by Italian partisans against a German police regi…

When drawing an interior space that is circular or elliptical, such as that of Sant’Ivo alla Sapienza, San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane, or Sant’Andrea al Quirinale it is difficult to convey a sense of being surrounded by the spatial enclosure.

Another set of examples comparing two views of the same subject, this time of the interior of the Church Church of the Gesù, the mother church of the Jesuit order and symbol of the Catholic Counter-Reformation.

Having been fortunate to be able to teach in Rome a few times, I have sketched the same sites on multiple occasions.

A few pages of quick studies done to demonstrate certain drawing principles to students.

A sketch done in the early morning while waiting for students to arrive for a tour of the Vittoriano, an important national monument built between 1885 and 1935 to honor Victor Emmanuel II, first king of a unified Italy.

After a thoroughly enjoyable sojourn in Sicily, I departed for Torino, where I met up with faculty and students participating in the UW Architecture in Rome program.