Faces

Trying a little black.

Merry Christmas!

All the Best for 2014.

Birdhouse

From last August, on our patio.

Richmond Country Farm Market

I did this last August.

Vancouver Usk meetup

At 33 Acres Brewing, needless to say it was fun.

James Hobbs Great New Book

Full to the brim with great advice and wonderful drawings. Just got a copy, I have a drawing in it - cool! This is the British cover, you can see the American cover and order it at amazon.com

Mono-type

Drawing & water-colour over mono-type leaves.

At Dr. Sketchy, Vancouver

The one and only Ariel Helvetica.

November

In November in the Pacific Northwest sitting in the sun on the cafe patio drawing a Palm tree. Weird in a way, of course no one else was there, a little cool, but fine for sketching.

Robson & Homer, Vancouver BC

From a coffee shop window on a sunny, cold November day.

Congee Noodle House

Our USk group met here for lunch, to draw it and eat it. Broadway and Main, Vancouver BC

Our Lady of Paris

Or maybe Pisa, from my photo, so banished from Urban Sketchers, though I have sat in front of it and drawn it a couple of years ago.

The Coffee Bar

Clever name.

REMEMBER

From Point Roberts USA

Looking across the ocean to the Gulf Islands in BC.

Too Many Windows

Looking at Vancouver BC condos across False Creek.

At Dr. Sketchy

Lola

Fishboats

Fishboats
Drawing at Ladner Harbour, Delta BC on a lovely fall day.

Marina

The marina at Point Roberts Wa. USA. Nearly all the boat hulls are white, which I have difficulty with when colouring the sketch.

Essential

Quentin Blake, one of my drawing heroes, says "think about what the essential of it is".

Coffee

Quack!

Our USk group went to the Reifel Bird Sanctuary in Delta BC.

Vancouver Heritage House

Built in 1895, Bloomfield Studio, on Columbia between Broadway and 10th Ave.

Wharfingers Office

So, a Wharfinger is a person who looks after the wharf and has numerous related duties. An archaic term still in use in Ladner BC Canada at the harbour. Also, the other day I was on my stool next to a parking spot and of course some one comes and parks and blocks my view, so we get talking, he is a painter, was an art instructor, checks out my sketch and says "don't draw in everything and don't paint everything and you have to decide what not to draw and what not to paint". So I did and this is either cool or it is unfinished.

Vancouver, Canada

A view of Vancouver BC Canada from Milano Coffee on West 8th Ave.

Roosters

Fun to sketch at Richmond Country Farm Market, Richmond BC Canada

Fish Boats

I enjoy drawing in Ladner Harbour, near Tsawwassen, Delta BC

Drawing

Boundary Bay

Another drawing of my favourite place to walk, the dikes at Boundary Bay BC Canada.

At The Grind

Drawing at The Grind coffee shop with Vancouver Usk.

Fish Boat

A Purse Seiner off Point Roberts, USA.

Petras

One of my coffee shops.

Fernie Museum

On the main street in Fernie BC, in the heart of the Canadian Rocky Mountains. The building has been a bank and a BC Hydro office and I am sure other things as well. I moved a couple of mountains for the background. We were back for a  high school reunion for my wife. Great times.

Keefer Rooms

I drew this a few weeks ago with the Vancouver Usk group. I didn't like it then but now I do. I am kinda thinking that, in your mind(dreams?) drawings improve with time.

Coffee Shop

Sharpie pen, brown ink.

Vancouver Carnegie Centre

Andrew Carnegie made a fortune in the US steel industry and then used it for many philanthropical projects including building libraries, such as this one in east Vancouver, now a community centre.

Paris

From my photo at the corner of Rue d'Alesia and Ave du Maine in the 14th Arr. Paris France a couple of years ago.

Bent Main Sheet Metal

My line drawing got gibbled up in the copy machine. I kinda like the look so I coloured it.

Main Sheet Metal

Main Sheet Metal, 1024 Main St Vancouver, a classic. I love these old buildings. A marker drawing.

Queen of Albernie

A small Zodiac rescue craft and the launching crane on the BC Ferries vessel Queen of Albernie.

Vancouver Zombie Walk

The walking dead. The zombies walk in Vancouver every year, fun to see the costumes.

Meetup Group

We went to the West Van Harmony Arts Festival.

Playing

Lamy B nib, noodlers black, Derwent Studio colour pencils, Daler Rowney Cachet 10' x 8" 100lb sketchbook. Can't resist black contour lines.

Sidney, BC

Drawing

At the beach.

Connected

Woman traveling on the BC Ferries Spirit of Vancouver to Victoria.

Centennial Beach Playground

Tsawwassen, Delta BC

Nitobe Garden

Nitobe Garden

Buildings on the Beach, Point Roberts

Great to go to Point Roberts Wa. and sit on the beach, listen to the waves and draw.