"The Artist as reporter" is the title of an inspiring book by the late British illustrator Paul Hogarth. I borrowed his title for my talk at the sketching workshop "de vuelta con el cuaderno" that I attended in Spain earlier this month. Here's the text of my class in Spanish. If enough people are interested, I will translate it to English when I get a chance.
This is something I just put together rather quickly using Issuu, a really cool website that turns multi-page PDF files into documents you can flip through online. I'm totally hooked.
I used drawings I do for my son that you may have already seen here or on my flickr before. I think he's going to enjoy browsing through them in the computer. I'll probably try this with some sketchbooks as well.
We went to the beach today. We are lucky to have several great beaches within 30 minutes or so from where we live. For today's outing we chose this one called Picnic Point in the city of Edmonds, which is about 15 miles north of Seattle.
Many people think Seattle is on the Pacific Coast, but it lies on the Puget Sound, a very large salt water estuary of the Pacific.
Photo by Beth Polusladkaia.
Last Sunday was the first official sketchcrawl organized by USk Seattle. The turnout was great with 14 people getting together at 11 a.m. at Fishermen's Terminal. We are planning to meet every third Sunday of the month to sketch together in the spirit of Urban Sketchers.
Above is one of the drawings I did and you can see more in our group blog.
Sketch and page © The Seattle Times. Photo by Steve Shay, courtesy of the West Seattle Herald. Click on images to enlarge.
My sketching gig at the paper keeps getting more interesting by the day. Recently I sketched a bunch of people dressed as pirates landing on a local beach. It's an annual event that kicks off a month-long summer celebration known as Seafair. Fun stuff.
For the first time since I started it, my illustrated column ran as centerpiece of the Local section. And the competition was tough if you know what I mean. Check the photo below the fold of a nudist group trying to set a skinny-dipping world record.
I got an overall positive response to the post except for one commenter on the blog who compared the sketch to a scribble his five year old niece could do. You can read the post and the rest of the comments here and add your thoughts or give comments your thumbs up or down if you'd like.
In the middle of the crazy scene while I was surrounded by pirates I met Steve Shay, a writer and photographer for the West Seattle Herald. He was very nice to let me use one of the photos he took of me that he also included on his slideshow of the event. Thanks Steve!
I usually illustrate Sunday's opinion page guest column as part of my job at the Seattle Times. Even though it always runs in black and white, I like to do a color version of the artwork for the website. In this case, I really wanted to get some green in there as you can imagine. The article was a very interesting read by famous travel journalist Rick Steves about the situation in Iran. Everyone should read it.
Steves lives in Edmonds, so we are practically neighbors. One of these days I'd like to visit his "Europe Through the Back Door" headquarters. I have a tip or two about travelling to Spain, I hope that gets me in.
That's what my daughter told me secretly to my ear Saturday night, just before Father's Day. She meant a "sketchbook" of course. I had sketched her playing with a game in the car earlier. On Sunday we had a nice dinner at a pizza restaurant we usually go to and I also sketched my son on the facing page. I wanted to have a spread with both of them to remember the occasion.
Sketching in Montemolín, Spain.
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