With a heavy heart, I made a zine yesterday to honor Minneapolis. If you haven’t already, please use @5calls to call your reps and ask to defund ICE! Still learning how to make zines by importing my sketchbook drawings into Procreate. Still so
Woohoo! The fog cleared just in time for our @urbansketcherssacramento outing to Stanford Mansion. I had fun playing around with some new techniques on this one: • wet-on-wet watercolor and looseness (thanks for encouraging me to try out a &ld
I had so much fun biking to the Amtrak and riding to Berkeley yesterday. I sketched California Hall at UC Berkeley as the sun cut across in diagonal rays. Students chatted about professors and called after a poodle named Cookie. I enjoyed playing aro
When the fog cleared yesterday, I spent a sunny afternoon getting to know this cool art deco building in Winn Park. Apparently it was built in 1937 by the Works Progress Administration (WPA) as a fire alarm station. And now it’s being renovated
Another awesome @urbansketcherssacramento event! Thanks @wildsistersbookco for hosting us! 📚 I’m amazed at how our group keeps growing. 👯‍♀️ Photos 3 & 4: @cactasss captured me sketching on the sidewalk! I love it! 🥰
Some sunny Florida sketches from my birthday December 31, and my first time sketching on a beach (10 out of 10, would recommend). I miss sketching outside in the warmth and can’t wait for the spring in Sacramento! In the meantime, I’ve go
Happy birthday to me! I was looking back on my 2025 “More/Less” intentions, and thought it was pretty cool that I wanted to make more “messy art” before I knew much about urban sketching. I’m very grateful to have found
Happy holidays!🎄 I hope you’re getting all the relaxation and art supplies your heart desires. I snuck in a quick sketch @camelliacoffeeroasters before flying off to South Florida for the holidays. Still trying to decide if golden orange (qui
Cafe Immortal was playing some bangers from Yes and getting me in the holiday spirit. I had fun experimenting with pushing things to the background by switching to lighter gray colored pencils. Also, I’ve been trying more wet-on-wet techniques
I almost didn’t share this because I made this zine in a hurry so I could see clients. But in the spirit of good enough sketching, here’s a zine I made to help my elementary school clients review their coping skills before winter break. T
I’m so impressed by the urban sketchers who braved the cold last night to sketch together! Our last meetup for @urbansketcherssacramento was a blast, despite it being 42 degrees! It’s easier to withstand the cold when you’re in the
Belatedly sharing what a fun time I had taking an urban sketching workshop with @suhitasketch in the studio of one of my heroes, @wendymac @drawtogether.studio. I can’t believe I got to meet Wendy!! She was just as cool in person as she seems!
Despite the rain, we had fun sketching indoors @urbansketcherssacramento! This time we were at The Pour Choice in Auburn, which had beautiful interiors for us to sketch. I gave myself a challenge by trying to draw a full interior scene with moving p
Another cute meetup for Urban Sketchers Sacramento! We had a lot of fun with a small group, sketching the gorgeous interiors and plants @propagatesac. Last slide: I love it when a sketching meetup ends in a sketcher sharing their work! @kthm4u is a
Sometimes I have time to watercolor on the spot — and sometimes I don’t! So I’ve been sketching with ink on location and watercoloring after the fact, when it makes sense. I appreciate the ability to capture an image quickly, knowin
How cute are we? Urban Sketchers Sacramento met up to sketch at night @oakparkhalloweenhouse and we had so much fun!! The owners of the house welcomed us and even offered to buy our artwork. And it was a neat challenge to sketch in the dark 🎃
Autumn is in the air! 🎃👻🍂 I’ve been enjoying my landscape orientation sketchbook to draw people sitting together at cafes. Still debating on switching to a portrait orientation for my next A6 watercolor sketchbook. I thought the landscape
I drew a quick outline of a person while wandering around a pumpkin patch. It was hard to paint on the spot with things to see and do, so I took just enough pictures of the people and the landscape that I could finish at home! Also bought some cute p
Fun inflatables at the No Kings protest in Vancouver, Washington! 🚫👑 #urbansketchers #urbansketchingprotest #inktober #inktober2025 #nokingsprotest
Gotta love a soccer coach with metaphors. ⚽️ He also told the kids: “Land the ball in Mars!” 👽 This was a cold day when it was about to rain, and I couldn’t decide what to sketch. Glad I found a bench a respectful distance from t