I talked to award-winning travel sketcher Oliver Hoeller about his approach to visual storytelling and our collaboration on his recent On the Spot article about Bali. Hoeller is a scientist turned illustrator and urban sketcher.
A ghost materialized in California’s Central Valley last winter. Its appearance in this vast farming district was reported by major news outlets around the country, with photojournalists trekking across fields and right up to the edge of a large body of water to take pictures. The images they published did not show a filmy creature rising out of the mist or a pale boat gliding across the lake.
Hello readers, Fall has arrived in Seattle. I’m excited to share a new “Sketching News Roundup” with you as rain begins to pour outside. Enjoy! Tiny Changes and live-painter Jenny Soep Photo by Ryan Buchanan. Stockholm-based reportage artist Jenny Soep landed a pretty rad gig the last week of August. She was the official sketch artist for Edinburgh’s Connect […]
Hi readers, With just a few minutes of August left on the clock here in Seattle, On the Spot’s “Sketching News Roundup” is back. Enjoy! Joust draw it! Earlier in August, London-based illustrator Erin De Bar documented a famous joust competition at Hampton Court Palace. De Bar told me via text how she felt the pressure to capture […]
On a warm, sunny July afternoon, a bright yellow excavator sat idle where a housing development will be built in North Seattle. Growing behind it is a Western Red Cedar estimated to be 200 years old.
