January 15, 2026 at 5:56 AM
Our house is overwhelmed with books. The are escaping confinement. #sketchbookdiary
October 6, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Our house is overwhelmed with books. The are escaping confinement. #sketchbookdiary
#SketchbookDiary
Inde Navarette in “Obsession”
Inde Navarette in “Obsession”
July 18, 2026 at 5:01 PM
#SketchbookDiary
Inde Navarette in “Obsession”
Inde Navarette in “Obsession”
#sketchbookdiary - writing the acknowledgments for a novel, aka there are so many people and it’s not organized and inevitably I will leave someone out.
October 16, 2025 at 5:27 PM
#sketchbookdiary - writing the acknowledgments for a novel, aka there are so many people and it’s not organized and inevitably I will leave someone out.
Filling up the last page of my first #sketchbookdiary. Should I do a flip through or something?
October 21, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Filling up the last page of my first #sketchbookdiary. Should I do a flip through or something?
#sketchbookdiary progress: here’s where I am in learning to quick, highly abstracted sketches of people.
That turns out to be (artists out there will be shocked!) REALLY HARD.
Does anyone have resources to recommend?
That turns out to be (artists out there will be shocked!) REALLY HARD.
Does anyone have resources to recommend?
December 1, 2025 at 5:09 PM
#sketchbookdiary progress: here’s where I am in learning to quick, highly abstracted sketches of people.
That turns out to be (artists out there will be shocked!) REALLY HARD.
Does anyone have resources to recommend?
That turns out to be (artists out there will be shocked!) REALLY HARD.
Does anyone have resources to recommend?
Me and my kiddo — 19 but still and always my kiddo — have a pact to work in our sketchbooks in the morning. #sketchbookdiary
October 2, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Me and my kiddo — 19 but still and always my kiddo — have a pact to work in our sketchbooks in the morning. #sketchbookdiary
I had no idea how to paint an 11th century castle. 🧵
#abstractlandscapepainting #abstractwatercolor #watercolorsketchbook #pleinairpainting #burgundyfrance #bourgogne #artisttravels #sketchbookdiary #artforcollectors #wildplaces
#abstractlandscapepainting #abstractwatercolor #watercolorsketchbook #pleinairpainting #burgundyfrance #bourgogne #artisttravels #sketchbookdiary #artforcollectors #wildplaces
September 11, 2026 at 8:44 PM
I had no idea how to paint an 11th century castle. 🧵
#abstractlandscapepainting #abstractwatercolor #watercolorsketchbook #pleinairpainting #burgundyfrance #bourgogne #artisttravels #sketchbookdiary #artforcollectors #wildplaces
#abstractlandscapepainting #abstractwatercolor #watercolorsketchbook #pleinairpainting #burgundyfrance #bourgogne #artisttravels #sketchbookdiary #artforcollectors #wildplaces
Today’s #sketchbookdiary assignment was “no words.” Capturing I hope a grey day with bright leaves
October 21, 2025 at 2:35 AM
Today’s #sketchbookdiary assignment was “no words.” Capturing I hope a grey day with bright leaves
Another #sketchbookdiary page. Our Muskoka retreat included two American writers (and me, but after 25 years of dual citizenship I assimilated-ish) and it’s always fun to make someone try ketchup potato chips for the first time.
August 26, 2026 at 9:09 PM
Another #sketchbookdiary page. Our Muskoka retreat included two American writers (and me, but after 25 years of dual citizenship I assimilated-ish) and it’s always fun to make someone try ketchup potato chips for the first time.
#sketchbookdiary May 2: I tried raw oysters for the first time.
I wasn’t expecting to like them. They look like snot with organs. But, a secret for an interesting life is to say yes to weird stuff that lands in your lap, like eating the oysters that were harvested literally across the street.
I wasn’t expecting to like them. They look like snot with organs. But, a secret for an interesting life is to say yes to weird stuff that lands in your lap, like eating the oysters that were harvested literally across the street.
May 5, 2026 at 6:35 PM
#sketchbookdiary May 2: I tried raw oysters for the first time.
I wasn’t expecting to like them. They look like snot with organs. But, a secret for an interesting life is to say yes to weird stuff that lands in your lap, like eating the oysters that were harvested literally across the street.
I wasn’t expecting to like them. They look like snot with organs. But, a secret for an interesting life is to say yes to weird stuff that lands in your lap, like eating the oysters that were harvested literally across the street.
April 23, 2025 at 11:06 AM
And then I drew it and then the ink ran. Sigh. But i have something to remember this great day #sketchbookdiary.
October 19, 2025 at 8:33 PM
And then I drew it and then the ink ran. Sigh. But i have something to remember this great day #sketchbookdiary.
#sketchbookdiary - I have been hanging on for this! On my birthday I caught airplanes. It flew to Portland, and the next day caught a bus to the Washington coast, to Willapa Bay and the Long Beach Penisula, where the Columbia meets the Pacific.
May 4, 2026 at 4:33 PM
#sketchbookdiary - I have been hanging on for this! On my birthday I caught airplanes. It flew to Portland, and the next day caught a bus to the Washington coast, to Willapa Bay and the Long Beach Penisula, where the Columbia meets the Pacific.
#sketchbookdiary recap of WITCHWARD BOUND launch day on September 1st.
Not half a patch on the wonderful illos by Kelly Murphy — Butter looks like one of those weird medieval manuscript cats. But I do like the grape juice sea and the pea green boat.
Not half a patch on the wonderful illos by Kelly Murphy — Butter looks like one of those weird medieval manuscript cats. But I do like the grape juice sea and the pea green boat.
September 4, 2026 at 3:44 PM
#sketchbookdiary recap of WITCHWARD BOUND launch day on September 1st.
Not half a patch on the wonderful illos by Kelly Murphy — Butter looks like one of those weird medieval manuscript cats. But I do like the grape juice sea and the pea green boat.
Not half a patch on the wonderful illos by Kelly Murphy — Butter looks like one of those weird medieval manuscript cats. But I do like the grape juice sea and the pea green boat.
In my #sketchbookdiary recently, the poem that comes to my heart this time of year: “Instructions on Not Giving Up,” by Ada Limon.
More than the fuchsia funnels breaking out
of the crabapple tree, more than the neighbor’s
almost obscene display of cherry limbs shoving
More than the fuchsia funnels breaking out
of the crabapple tree, more than the neighbor’s
almost obscene display of cherry limbs shoving
May 3, 2026 at 4:35 PM
In my #sketchbookdiary recently, the poem that comes to my heart this time of year: “Instructions on Not Giving Up,” by Ada Limon.
More than the fuchsia funnels breaking out
of the crabapple tree, more than the neighbor’s
almost obscene display of cherry limbs shoving
More than the fuchsia funnels breaking out
of the crabapple tree, more than the neighbor’s
almost obscene display of cherry limbs shoving
Text reads: I have used a fountain pen for years, but I still cannot refill a pen from an ink bottle without staining my hands.
#iroshizuku ink in colour #Syo-ro
Experiment with the hand drawn with one continuous line.
#sketchdiary #sketchbookdiary
#iroshizuku ink in colour #Syo-ro
Experiment with the hand drawn with one continuous line.
#sketchdiary #sketchbookdiary
October 1, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Text reads: I have used a fountain pen for years, but I still cannot refill a pen from an ink bottle without staining my hands.
#iroshizuku ink in colour #Syo-ro
Experiment with the hand drawn with one continuous line.
#sketchdiary #sketchbookdiary
#iroshizuku ink in colour #Syo-ro
Experiment with the hand drawn with one continuous line.
#sketchdiary #sketchbookdiary
A page from my #sketchbookdiary from back in December, before the great flu. I am still working on a visual shorthand to let me draw the people in my life — or people, generally — in a way that captures something interesting about them. I am getting a little closer.
January 7, 2026 at 5:36 PM
A page from my #sketchbookdiary from back in December, before the great flu. I am still working on a visual shorthand to let me draw the people in my life — or people, generally — in a way that captures something interesting about them. I am getting a little closer.
#sketchbookdiary with some home-based stuff redacted. To get my head into the space where I am, I walked down to #WillapaBay bay and sat a long time by the water. I sketched. Better.
May 7, 2026 at 11:02 PM
#sketchbookdiary with some home-based stuff redacted. To get my head into the space where I am, I walked down to #WillapaBay bay and sat a long time by the water. I sketched. Better.
#sketchbookdiary about some powerful television we’ve seen this week - the first three episodes of #pluribus and the first four of #hurricanekatrinaraceagainsttime
November 18, 2025 at 12:23 AM
#sketchbookdiary about some powerful television we’ve seen this week - the first three episodes of #pluribus and the first four of #hurricanekatrinaraceagainsttime
#sketchbookdiary text reads: we watched a documentary about fossilized footprints at White Sands National Park in New Mexico. Trying to date the peopling of North America.
A rushing woman pauses, resettles the child on her hip. Tiny footprints appear beside hers.
A rushing woman pauses, resettles the child on her hip. Tiny footprints appear beside hers.
September 30, 2025 at 9:53 PM
#sketchbookdiary text reads: we watched a documentary about fossilized footprints at White Sands National Park in New Mexico. Trying to date the peopling of North America.
A rushing woman pauses, resettles the child on her hip. Tiny footprints appear beside hers.
A rushing woman pauses, resettles the child on her hip. Tiny footprints appear beside hers.
My #sketchbookdiary is mostly about the mundanities of my life. It’s meant to be analog, grounded, imperfect — the opposite of AI — things that I have seen with my own eyes.
But sometimes the news is the only thing that seems possible to draw.
But sometimes the news is the only thing that seems possible to draw.
January 26, 2026 at 12:27 AM
My #sketchbookdiary is mostly about the mundanities of my life. It’s meant to be analog, grounded, imperfect — the opposite of AI — things that I have seen with my own eyes.
But sometimes the news is the only thing that seems possible to draw.
But sometimes the news is the only thing that seems possible to draw.
#MinorArcana
We build sanctuaries from the wreckage—
a cathedral of bone, grief feathered with purpose.
In the wake of ruin, love sharpens into ritual.
🦢✨🐍
Poem Prompt: Where the Ash Settled
Sketch Prompt: Cathedral of Bone
#PoemADay #SketchBookDiary #drawing #PoetryAndPaint #VenomAndVellum
We build sanctuaries from the wreckage—
a cathedral of bone, grief feathered with purpose.
In the wake of ruin, love sharpens into ritual.
🦢✨🐍
Poem Prompt: Where the Ash Settled
Sketch Prompt: Cathedral of Bone
#PoemADay #SketchBookDiary #drawing #PoetryAndPaint #VenomAndVellum
July 25, 2025 at 1:47 AM
#MinorArcana
We build sanctuaries from the wreckage—
a cathedral of bone, grief feathered with purpose.
In the wake of ruin, love sharpens into ritual.
🦢✨🐍
Poem Prompt: Where the Ash Settled
Sketch Prompt: Cathedral of Bone
#PoemADay #SketchBookDiary #drawing #PoetryAndPaint #VenomAndVellum
We build sanctuaries from the wreckage—
a cathedral of bone, grief feathered with purpose.
In the wake of ruin, love sharpens into ritual.
🦢✨🐍
Poem Prompt: Where the Ash Settled
Sketch Prompt: Cathedral of Bone
#PoemADay #SketchBookDiary #drawing #PoetryAndPaint #VenomAndVellum
✨Xmas Hols Japan Dump: Part 3 - #drawingjapan ✨
Life has delayed me from sharing, but nevertheless here we go!
Bucket List Trip Posts cont.🙌✨
Here’s a video of my fully opened out delicious @moleskine concertina sketchbook
C my instagram 4 full post ;)
#snoopymuseum #ghiblimuseum #sketchbookdiary
Life has delayed me from sharing, but nevertheless here we go!
Bucket List Trip Posts cont.🙌✨
Here’s a video of my fully opened out delicious @moleskine concertina sketchbook
C my instagram 4 full post ;)
#snoopymuseum #ghiblimuseum #sketchbookdiary
January 22, 2025 at 8:39 AM
✨Xmas Hols Japan Dump: Part 3 - #drawingjapan ✨
Life has delayed me from sharing, but nevertheless here we go!
Bucket List Trip Posts cont.🙌✨
Here’s a video of my fully opened out delicious @moleskine concertina sketchbook
C my instagram 4 full post ;)
#snoopymuseum #ghiblimuseum #sketchbookdiary
Life has delayed me from sharing, but nevertheless here we go!
Bucket List Trip Posts cont.🙌✨
Here’s a video of my fully opened out delicious @moleskine concertina sketchbook
C my instagram 4 full post ;)
#snoopymuseum #ghiblimuseum #sketchbookdiary