Thoughts and sketches on humans, nature, running, and the end of the world
You can’t unsee what you have truly seen
We were in Friday Harbor again for Thanksgiving, and I had some time to sketch. This sketch is from a photo that I took during a walk on Wednesday. The next days were rainy and windy and we spent most of our time relaxing in the house....
In the last couple of days, husband and I have been traveling. My fiercely independent mother-in-law, S., fell and broke her arm, and we helped with transportation and doctor appointments. There was a lot of waiting, and I did a lot of sketching. I first sketched a toy truck that was in S. living...
Real, in-person fall leaves in my backyard! I’m working through my very large pile of sketchbooks in search for incomplete or unused ones to use up. This is a tiny (3 1/2” by 5 1/2”) portrait hand•book sketchbook, several years old. It seems that they have changed paper on these sketchbooks a few times,...
Pete, the oldest gorilla at the Woodland Park Zoo in Seattle, and one of the oldest western lowland gorillas in North America, died 2 days ago. He was 50 years old and had been in Woodland Park since 1969. He was the great great-grandfather of Yola, the youngest gorilla at the zoo. I had...
Today Google employees staged a 11:10 AM walk out in many offices around the world. The trigger was the report that a senior executive who left Google a few years ago had been accused of sexual harassment. The reason why he left the company was never disclosed, and he received a $90 million exit bonus...
A few months ago, I took a class offered by Roz Stendahl on bookbinding (high recommended), and I created a few sketchbooks with Fabriano Artistico hot press watercolor paper. For some reason I had several sheets of this paper and I wanted to get to use it. So in the past week I started to...
