Look at this… two sketchy posts in one week! I must have a very interesting life all of a sudden. This past weekend, myself and 3 of my metal-working companions levered ourselves into an extended-cab pickup and drove 22 hours to Salida, Colorado (pronounced just like ‘saliva’) to hear the incomparable Albert Paley deliver a [...]
We were in Nelson, BC over the weekend for a wedding (sans kids!) and I took advantage of the opportunity to walk around and find some more old building to sketch. There is ample supply of buildings and cool houses in this historic community that had the foresight to keep all the buildings up (instead [...]
This is a quick sketch of a brick building on Van Horne St. I had a few minutes to myself on Sunday and decided to draw a cool building. I’m running out of cool buildings in Cranbrook to draw, going to have to do some road-tripping to draw stuff soon. For now enjoy this little [...]
Last weekend Anie and I ditched the chilluns with our surrogate grandparents (thanks Auntie Dale-Ann and Jack!) and headed for the West Kootenays for an over-nighter. We spent a leisurely afternoon in Nelson, BC. where they have a ton of well-preserved architecture that begs for sketching. Since we didn’t have any kids in tow, and [...]