
I am so honored and thrilled to be an Urban Sketchers blog correspondent! I am a fairly recent arrival to this amazing, friendly, and supportive community that connects online and around the world, seemingly erasing all boundaries on a map. What a wonderful way to keep drawing-by-hand alive in a digital age. I am inspired and motivated by you all!
For most of us, drawing is a way of seeing and learning. I leaned how to draw in architecture school, worked as an architect in NYC, and now work primarily as an architectural illustrator here in Seattle. I have a passion to travel and learn about the buildings and spaces I see through sketching.
Sketching is my form of meditation. The part of my brain that keeps track of time turns off, and I am transfixed in a time and place, capturing on paper what I see and experience the way no click of a camera ever could. To draw something you have to look so closely, it becomes imprinted in your memory. Looking at a sketch I did 20 years ago, the sights, sounds, the feel of the sun and the air and more, all flood back. Sketching is a powerful way to really SEE our world.
Sketching is my form of meditation. The part of my brain that keeps track of time turns off, and I am transfixed in a time and place, capturing on paper what I see and experience the way no click of a camera ever could. To draw something you have to look so closely, it becomes imprinted in your memory. Looking at a sketch I did 20 years ago, the sights, sounds, the feel of the sun and the air and more, all flood back. Sketching is a powerful way to really SEE our world.
The past few years have provided some amazing opportunities to travel, sketch and paint…trips to Spain, India and Nepal in 2011 followed by architecture fellowships to France (Gabriel Prize) and Italy (NIAUSI) the past two summers. Sketches from those trips were honored with the KRob travel sketch award two years in a row! I am also a signature member of the Northwest Watercolor Society.
Thank you for this opportunity, and I look forward to posting my sketching adventures near and far…see you soon in Singapore!
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