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Nanaimo BC - Bastion

A defensive monolithic timber (that's tiMber with an M, unlike my spelling error on the...

Uploaded on Sep 28, 2011

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The Art of Urban Sketching book cover

The final cover design for the upcoming Urban Sketchers book. Should be in bookstores soon. Looking...

Uploaded on Sep 24, 2011

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Victoria - looking up Wharf Street

Looking up a curving wharf street. Part of the preserved old part of the city.

Uploaded on Sep 10, 2011

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Victoria - camper truck

It would be great to have a rig like this for a road trip to the Yukon / Northwest Territories / Alaska.

Uploaded on Sep 10, 2011 | Map

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Victoria - Christ Church Cathedral

Like many cathedrals, this one lacks spires atop the two front towers. I always thought it would be...

Uploaded on Aug 20, 2011

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Alberta - Rocky Mountain Sheep

From a photograph I took in Kananaskis Park in Alberta. Drawn at the Victoria "Drink and Draw" held at the Bent Mast Pub.

Uploaded on Aug 12, 2011

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Victoria - Store Street Chinatown

A pleasing block of Store Street in Chinatown with the Swans Hotel to the right, and a few restaurants...

Uploaded on Aug 8, 2011

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Seattle - Olympic Sculpture Park - The Eagle

I love this sculpture by Alexander Calder, "The Eagle". It really does have the presence and...

Uploaded on Aug 6, 2011

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Seattle - Art Museum (South Hall)

I like this space, the slight curve along it's length, the steps, the statues, the decorative ceiling...

Uploaded on Aug 6, 2011

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Django lino block print #2

Django Reinhardt, the great French gypsy jazz guitarist. With a smoke in his mouth and his knarly...

Uploaded on Aug 1, 2011

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Edward Hopper - The City

I've never copied a painting before, I just had this postcard laying around and I started by drawing...

Uploaded on Jul 31, 2011

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Victoria - Looking down View Street

Streetscape looking up View Street towards this excellent old stone building and the...

Uploaded on Jul 28, 2011

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Victoria - Sketching in View Street

A really friendly Mexican couple stopped to look at the sketch and we got into a conversation. Turns...

Uploaded on Jul 28, 2011

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Victoria - Totems

A couple of totems in the display lobby on the ground floor of the museum. The bottom head on the left...

Uploaded on Jul 27, 2011

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Victoria - Point Hope Shipyard

Uploaded on Jul 26, 2011

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Victoria - Ocean River Sports and Capital Iron Building

I've been meaning to do this sketch for a while - a view towards the 2 buildings down on Store...

Uploaded on Jul 24, 2011

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Victoria - Hook Sin Tonic Charity Building

A bit out of the way on a side street off of Chinatown. The glassy building to the right is bloody awful.

Uploaded on Jul 24, 2011

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Victoria - Looking up Swift Street

Another sketch looking uphill. Obviously the streets rise from the water, most steeply closest to the...

Uploaded on Jul 20, 2011

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