GLWSKETCHWORKS

Yesterday was a beautiful day in Seattle.   So this was our first chance at painting outdoors for this season.  It was 74 degrees which is v...

I am taking a watercolor class this spring with Tom Hoffman.  Yesterday we studied how far you can go with soft edges in paintings.  Here i...

  Works from Instructors of the Seattle 10x10 program are being exhibited at the Center for Architecture and Desi...

Get out your sketching gear!  Whether you want to start learning how to sketch or have been a long time sketcher, we have the classes for...

Getting ready for the  Urban Sketchers Symposium in Manchester,  my goal is to try to travel light and reduce the amount of sketching gea...

  The nice thing about being an urban sketcher is always having something to do.  If you have to wait for two hours on a flight or at a g...

The second sketch I did at  Stanford was of the Rodin Gardens at the Cantor Museum.  Did you know that there are many Rodin statues in the g...

Last week I had a chance to sketch in California with sketcher friends Suhita Shirodkar and Laurie Wigham.  We all met up at the Stanford Un...

Next weekend we will be giving the Line to Color Workshop, so I am posting the sketching supplies that students will need for the weeken...

Yesterday I was at Magnuson Park.  I wanted to practice painting with values and light.  Not depending on lines to establish form. When yo...

I just got two new watercolor books.  One by Alvaro Castagnet, "Watercolor Masterclass" and another one by Michael Reardon  "...

I have been tweaking this basic palette for a while.  Trying to  get the essential colors I would have my students get that would give them ...

As many of you know the Light Rail station on Capitol Hill and University of Washington were opened on March 19th. There were free rides on ...

Some fresh spring flowers to celebrate Easter    

Sunday Seattle Urban Sketchers gathered at Suzzallo Library to sketch. The weather was rainy and windy, so the library was a great place...

Seattle Central Library The landscape  5.5 x 8.5 " watercolor sketchbook lends itself rather well to a panoramic view when opened ...

I have taken a bit of a hiatus from my watercolor study.  Just pure watercolor.  I become torn with sketching the pen and ink and watercol...

Today my husband and I drove from Seattle to Buckley, WA to check on his pick up truck that we are having fixed.  I thought it would be a ni...