“Autumn Sketches of Valparaiso and Northwest Indiana” /// After my family and I moved back to the Region in August of this year, the focus of my urban sketching shifted. /// I believe in “drawing what you see,” and in Taipei, where I lived for 20 plus years, that was pretty urban-centric, with passengers on the MRT, sub-tropical flowers in the city parks, steamed dumplings in favorite restaurants, and buildings in the city’s beautiful back alleys. /// Here, I’ve been blessed to have the chance to sketch the amazing Dunes (with the outline of Chicago just across the Lake), and the classic architecture of downtown Valpo, with water towers sprinkled across the city, and the mighty Midwestern trees with their blaze of Fall colors, and cups of coffee and chai with my cousin in great little cafes like Uptown, Blackbird, and Fluid. /// Perhaps it’s become more (sub)urban sketching than urban sketching for me now, but it’s definitely not (sub)-par in any way, at least not to me. /// “Another Time, Another Place” by U2–listen here: https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=dSbUx2pa3qs ///// #urbansketching #suburbansketching #moleskine #inkonpaper #anothertimeanotherplace #northwestindiana #theregion #thedunes (at Valparaiso, Indiana) https://www.instagram.com/p/BrVWUeEhhTL/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=iroasf5bm2my
