Honfleur and Paris


It has been an active couple of weeks. Last weekend in Honfleur and now in Paris with Tricia’s sister and family. Check out my post on my other site for more about the great food in Honfleur. Here are some of the sketches I did in Honfleur. We are staying in the Bastille area of…

Basel & Luzern – Loved Switzerland


Last Thursday we left Alsace and headed to Basel, Switzerland, with a lunch stop at Titisee-Neustadt in the Black Forest of Germany. Our first impression of Basel was the crazy pedestrians and bicyclists, they cross and cut in and out with seeming little concern for cars. As a driver it was up to me, with…

Blues, Grays, and Viewfinders


Sketching on the bow of our cruise ship at 0700 in the morning I was attempting to capture what was a magnificent panorama. Sweeping vistas dazzle our sight and motivate us to grab our sketchpads. Yet these same landscapes are some of the trickiest to capture. Over the years I have spent hours on them…

Happy Accidents, Sort Of


We left Honningsvag on Saturday, heading for Longyearbyen on the island of Svalbard. It is the most northerly town in the world at 78N latitude. With a day at sea spending time in the spa made sense. After the heat of the sauna, I sat in the relaxation room, with a view from the stern…

The Top of Europe, 71 Degrees North


On our last morning in Tromsø I had coffee again at Kaffebønna Stortorget. The Hermes II is moored just a across the street, so a sketch seemed natural. It took me back to summer days a couple years ago when I was sketching at the Center for Wooden Boats in Seattle. Then at 12H00 we…