Welcome!

Welcome to my new sketchbook blog.  This blog is dedicated to everything I keep in my personal sketch journal - my experiments, studies for paintings, travel sketches, urban sketchcrawls etc.My sketchbooks become my repository of ideas.  They are my personal journal of the things I see.  I find that using a camera may create a snapshot record, but you do not actually see.  When I look through my old photos they do not hold the same intense memories that my drawings do.  Drawing forces me to truly observe the world around me and see. Sketching is not easy and not to be taken lightly.  Like yoga and meditation, it is a practice - one that requires patience and perseverance. Frederick Franck summed it up beautifully in his book Zen Seeing, Zen Drawing - "The meaning of life is to see".  I hope you enjoy this new blog.