My first experience sketching when traveling was on a trip to Victoria, British Columbia, from Santa Cruz, California via San Jose and Port Angeles, Washington. Using a Tombow brush pen, I sketched with abandon. It was liberating.
At the San Jose airport.
In flight, I sketched some of the mountains in the Cascade Range.
At Sea-Tac.
A few sketches in Port Angeles, as I waited for the Coho ferry to Victoria.
From 'the top of the stairs'.
This is a group of teenage Inuit Alaskan boys on a field trip on the bow of the Coho about mid-way across the Straight of Juan de Fuca.
A crude map of Alaska showing the towns where they were from, and a freighter.
Victoria, British Columbia.
Approaching the harbor at Victoria. We were moving, so I drew these quickly.
Off the boat, I had more time to sketch the Empress Hotel.
Returning to Port Angeles.
Deckhand.
Port Angeles at the foot of the Olympic Range.
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