Don West, Artist

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Category: Urban Sketching

Potentilla Shrub

Took a bicycle ride to a favorite coffee shop with my sketchbook and tools. Quickly and loosely sketched out part of this shrub, intending only

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Lunch time!

Just a little lunch time fun with a new pen. Try sketching every opportunity you get. It’s pretty easy to do and the more you

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Venice Lagoon

I do a lot of study on art. Other artists’ work, books and videos are the primary resources. I see a technique or style of

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Vernazza Scene

Continuing with the “Sketching Foundations” course by Paul Kelley, this is one of the six exercises. Paul travelled to Vernazza and based the course on

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Urban Clock

I signed up for a course by Paul Kelley whose work I admire. It’s a brand new course called ”Sketching Foundations” and Paul’s first attempt

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Bar People

Here’s a little something different, pen and watercolor. A few years ago, I taught a workshop on watercolor journaling. It was all about sketching with

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