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Drawing After Naptime

Traveling as a young parent is hard enough. Making time to sketch while traveling is harder. In this talk, I share sketches from my trip to see family in India, and the ideas and techniques that helped me keep drawing…

Drawing with a Mission

My own inner voice has been very clear: I never saw myself as Monet in the studio; I wanted to be Anthony Bourdain with a sketchbook. The mission was never to create beautiful drawings or to fill a record number…

Less is More: Slow Travel Sketching

Slow travel is a natural companion to on-location sketching, but we all still feel the pressure to see it all – an impossible task. I will share experiences and sketches from a variety of my travels, from traversing New Zealand…

Turning your Sketchbook Journal into a Compelling Travelogue

I will share my journey of transforming travel sketchbooks into published travelogues. From Chateau d’Orquevaux, France (2023) to Romania (2025) and now Argentina, I will discuss the challenges of crafting a compelling narrative, the struggle of never writing enough in…

Sketching on the Fly: A whirlwind Tour of Southeast Asia

I just returned from a three-month tour of Southeast Asia. To record the experience in my sketchbook I had to move quickly and adapt to a constantly changing environment — navigating bustling streets, intense heat and unfamiliar cultural norms. In…

Drawing as an Extreme Sport

Drawing as a trophy, drawing as a sport, drawing as an ultimate way to understand and remember. This talk focuses on the constant need to record and the fascination with drawing in difficult situations, including caves, busy places and COVID…

Illustrated Journalism

When you draw, what story do you want to tell? How do you weave the who, what, when, where and why in your sketches? Can you make your narrative content memorable? I will share my own visual stories from the…

Aimlessly Wandering

I found sketching, or sketching found me, during COVID. Wandering my community after years of traveling, I discovered a changed urban environment, at times unrecognizable but compelling and transitory. Exploring this through sketching called me, and I haven’t stopped since…

How to Find Your Sketching Style

If you haven’t found your sketching style yet, don’t worry. I like to say that “you don’t find a style, the style finds you.” I can’t really perceive my own sketching style, and you might not be able to see…

31 Days in South America

In this talk I will share my experience traveling and sketching in Colombia, Peru and Argentina last fall, from packing light and researching itineraries and must-sketch locations, to connecting with people across different cultures. All my careful planning for this…

My Life as a Reportage Artist

In this talk I will discuss some recent reportage commissions for the French Air Force, Qatar Museum and the Italian Institute of Astrophysics to show how powerful urban sketching is for storytelling. I will also share how a sketching reportage…