Seattle Sketcher
Spanish-born artist and journalist living in the US since 1998. News artist and blogger at the Seattle Times since 2006. Host at Urban Sketchers dot com. Husband, father, fan of Legos and The Amazing Race.
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Seattle Sketcher

Seattle Sketcher The car I sketched last Friday is known as the "Punk Princess." Thanks to blog reader @jacicita for sharing this link. You gotta love flickr.

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Seattle Sketcher

Seattle Sketcher Hey, I'm going to be on TV! Watch Noticiero Noroeste on KUNS-TV at 6 p.m. or 11 p.m. tonight for my interview on the "La Comunidad" segment. You can practice your español ;)

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Seattle Sketcher It's Friday, you may have been wondering where in the world is the sketcher.

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Seattle Sketcher At the Ballard Food Bank.

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Seattle Sketcher Took my donation to the Brenden Foster Food Drive this morning.

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Seattle Sketcher New Swift bus service between Everett and Shoreline starts Nov. 29. I got to ride one of the new buses today.

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Seattle Sketcher Finally made it to the Olympic Peninsula!

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Consuelo Aduviso Brennan
Consuelo Aduviso Brennan
Thank you for showing the beauty of our town! I look forward to future sketches-
November 16 at 4:49pm
Alan Lewis
Alan Lewis
It's been a few years since I was last in Port Townsend.
November 16 at 5:18pm
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Seattle Sketcher Can you guess where I did this sketch?

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Junehlrome Buenafe
Junehlrome Buenafe
how about a view from the water tower at volunteer park?
November 14 at 12:15pm
Seattle Sketcher
Seattle Sketcher
yep, you got it Shannon!
Junehlrome, thanks for the suggestion! I'm actually planning on going to Volunteer park soon.
November 14 at 5:44pm
Seattle Sketcher

Seattle Sketcher I saw Santa today. He's already in Seattle if you can believe that.

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Deborah Novak
Deborah Novak
Nice sketch, but to early for Santa. Hope he made my gift before he left the North Pole.
November 13 at 5:38am
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Seattle Sketcher Meet Dick Spady, of Dick's drive-in restaurant and WWII veteran. Today is Veterans Day.

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Seattle Sketcher I had lunch at Dick's drive-in today. "The oldest continuously operated fast food drive-in restaurant in Washington and Oregon," Dick said.

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I didn't choose a good weather day to come to Dick's drive-in in Wallingford. The rain got my sketch all wet, but it's no big deal. I'll surely remember this day, not only because I had my first Dick's ...
Danielle Vermaak
Danielle Vermaak
Great sketch
November 11 at 10:27am
Seattle Sketcher
Seattle Sketcher
thanks Danielle!
November 11 at 2:39pm
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Seattle Sketcher Sketching helps me discover new things that otherwise I would not have paid attention to.

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Rick Gilbert
Rick Gilbert
very nice--especially the Red Robin sketch. there are no inconsequential moments! gaps are every bit as important as "occasions."
November 9 at 9:52pm
Marina Grechanik
Marina Grechanik
"Sketching helps me discover new things that otherwise I would not have paid attention to." - me too! It's so true! Love your quickies the best!
November 10 at 3:14am
Seattle Sketcher
Seattle Sketcher
thanks for the comments and thumbs up guys!
November 10 at 12:48pm
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Seattle Sketcher I did a quick sketch at the procession for slain police officer this morning.

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Seattle Sketcher The weather has been nice to sketch outside during my first 6 months as a newspaper blogger. Now I better buy some new fingerless gloves!

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Seattle Sketcher
thanks Dan!
November 5 at 9:21pm
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Seattle Sketcher I did some "sketch-terviews" asking people how they felt about today's elections.

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I took my sketchbook to the streets of downtown Seattle to do some interviews. Or you may call them "sketch-terviews." My completely non-scientific sample of voters and non-voters follows below. Only about ...
Seattle Sketcher
Seattle Sketcher
thanks for the comments!
@Julian Urrutia, your art reminds me of Basquiat!
November 4 at 6:44pm