Happy Year of the Fire Horse! Did you know that in addition to the 12 animals, there is a cycle of the 5 Chinese elements, too?
These linocut block print Lunar New Year cards are going out to friends and family soon. I printed a couple extra if you're interested in purchasing!
wayleeart.square.site
I've set up a website for my art and am going to see how far it goes!
You may have seen that I've been posting a lot of painting and sketching lately. Now that @waylee.art is set up, I'll focus my art over there and keep this account focused on my comics.
www.waylee.art
A watercolor painting of the Museum of History and Industry in Seattle, held up in front of the museum.
First @urbansketchers.bsky.social Seattle outing of 2026 for me, and I’m glad I braved the cold to paint outside!
I really like how this painting of @mohaiseattle.bsky.social came out.
#watercolor #pleinair #onlocation #art #painting
A page of ink gesture sketches done from life at a tennis clinic.
More 🎾 life gesture sketching
#lifedrawing #gesturesketching #sketch #tennis
I use a hair dryer for that
An ink drawing of the nutcracker and rat king props from Maurice Sendak’s Nutcracker ballet, held up in front of the house exhibiting the props.
The Maurice Sendak Nutcracker ballet props! This house in Seattle exhibits them every year, hosted by one of the Pacific Northwest Ballet orchestra members.
Sketched with mittens on to try to save my fingers, which are getting a little frost bitten.
#nutcracker #sendak #sketch #urbansketchers
A one-page comic titled “Eating Greens”. A young woman takes a bite of a salad and begins to chew and chew and chew, gradually getting frustrated and then bored out of her mind before suddenly something comes to her and light explodes out of her head and eyes as she achieves enlightenment.
Happy New Year, everyone! May 2026 bring you enlightenment. 🧘♀️
Made this comic at the monthly DUNE comics jam in Seattle.
Beautiful lighting!
A watercolor and ink painting of buildings in downtown Seattle, particularly the Westin towers and Times Square Building
Last Urban Sketchers Seattle meetup of 2025!
#watercolor #onlocation #pleinair #urbansketchers
I wrote a recap post for 2025 and shared the progress I've made over all the watercolor sketches and paintings I did over the past two months, and also a look ahead to 2026. Check it out here!
A page with many small sketches of people playing tennis
Gonna have to get to tennis clinics early more often!
#people #tennis #art #sketch #lifedrawing
Thank you for speaking up for us men who don’t have clenched, pancake asses! Finding pants that fit is tough, lol.
Thanks, Liz! The subtle colors were fun to go after.
A watercolor painting of the floating bridge over Lake Washington in the distance over an expanse of water with heavy clouds overhead and the sun breaking through. The forested shores on the opposite side of the lake fade into the foggy distance.
Painted another view over Lake Washington from Magnuson Park, this time on a very grey, foggy, cloudy morning, but with great atmospheric light in the distance and the sun breaking through the clouds occasionally.
#pleinair #onlocation #urbansketchers #watercolor #art #artsky
Ooh nice! I just picked up their bag with the Black Friday deal, so looking forward to trying it out
Thank you!
A watercolor painting of trees by a lake in the winter under cloudy skies. Wind surfers can be seen in the distance.
Holy cow it was freaking windy on this day! At one point my paint brush case, water jar lid, and a plastic bag took to the air and made a run for it. But on the plus side I got this great painting out of it!
#pleinair #onlocation #watercolor #artsky #urbansketchers #art #sketch
Thanks, Liz!
Thanks!
A watercolor painting of an open landscape with dense brush plantlife and trees in the distance.
Watercolor is fun!
#pleinair #onlocation #watercolor #art #urbansketchers #tradart #sketch #artsky
You do always answer my questions and I’m grateful, thank you!
Yeah! Same. If a books not doing it for me I move on. There are already more books out there to read that I would New interested to read than I have time for in my lifetime
An ink sketch of Pike Place Market, with the "PUBLIC MARKET" neon sign lit over the market, and many people milling about.
A little sketch of Pike Place Market while waiting for friends to arrive. A great thing about sketching is you can do it anywhere!
#sketch #urbansketchers #pikeplacemarket #onlocation #pleinaire #art #tradart
Such good people!
It was you!! Way back when, after the event, Push/Pull shared your zine on BSky, but didn’t know who made it. Lots of praise heaped on the pics, but no one knew who made it. Did you see that and tell them? Sorry if I missed that
Thanks! I love that about the painting
A watercolor painting of a path winding through a wood with bright yellow foliage.
Watercolor is starting to click!
The exuberant yellow foliage of these tall, thin trees in Magnuson Park in Seattle struck me as I was looking for what to paint.
#watercolor #sketch #onlocation #pleinaire #urbansketchers #landscape #art
Haha, that's awesome! What's the black thing on the right? Allows you to lock in the angle of the top flap of the box?
Thank you!
A sketch of a barred owl sitting on a tree branch
Happy Thanksgiving!
And thanks to this barred owl for hanging out and letting me sketch it! Feel lucky to have stumbled on it and noticed it camouflaged in plain site.
#owl #sketch #lifedrawing
