Muralist at work on old building in Ravenna/U District (remember Piecora’s?) | Seattle Sketcher
If you are around Ravenna/University District today or tomorrow, you can see how a huge mural of the Montlake Bridge is being painted on the...
Columnist
Seattle Sketcher Gabriel Campanario
Gabriel Campanario illustrates life in the Puget Sound region.
Seattle's Town Hall gets a makeover — air conditioning! — and new neighbors | Seattle Sketcher
Town Hall Seattle — that historic landmark built about a century ago as a church but that looks like the Roman Pantheon — is undergoing...
The lingcod season is waking up on Puget Sound | Seattle Sketcher
Sketched May 1, 2018 David Allen, a 30-year-old angler fishing for lingcod at the Des Moines Marina Pier, caught what looked like a big fish...
Seattle’s biggest fireboat is back at its dock as Fire Station 5 reopens | Seattle Sketcher
You can now find Seattle’s largest fireboat, the 108-foot Leschi, at Fire Station 5 on the west end of Madison Street, right between Colman Dock...
A perfect — and perfectly weird — view of Seattle’s breakneck growth | Seattle Sketcher
The view from Plymouth Pillars Park is a postcard of booming Seattle, and it will keep changing dramatically.
Take a rainy-day tour of a 111-year-old Seattle steam plant | Seattle Sketcher
Sketched March 10, 2018 A few dozen people are huddled around a volunteer giving a tour of the historic Georgetown Steam Plant on a recent...
Meet the Seattle tugboat that made history across three centuries: the Arthur Foss | Seattle Sketcher
The Arthur Foss tugboat is a symbol of the Northwest maritime industry and is believed to be the oldest floating tugboat in the world.
A case of Funko Fever spreads at Emerald City Comic Con | Seattle Sketcher
Sketched March 4, 2018 Did you go to Emerald City Comic Con last weekend? I was there on Sunday with my teenage son, and if...
Ivar Haglund was a man of the people — and of the seagulls — in Seattle | Seattle Sketcher
The statue of Ivar Haglund feeding seagulls at the base of Madison Street is a point of reference along Seattle’s evolving waterfront. Are you like...
A sign that Seattleites don’t have a lock on love, Parisian style | Seattle Sketcher
The love locks attached to the Marion Street bridge are rather sparse.