3 semanas en Japón - Parte 1: Tokio
By Mike Daikubara in Tokyo, Japan I recently took a 3 weeks trip to Japan to see my family, relative and friends. The main focus was to help my father settle into his new life after losing his mother and wife this spring. The trip was not all fun but I did have a few […]
Museo del Fuego de Boston
I’ve passed by this building numerous times but have never been inside until last week. Open on Saturdays (and sometimes on Wednesdays) to the public, this building was the Boston Fire Museum which was jam packed with fire fighting memorabilia from the Greater Boston area. The place is owned and operated by The Boston Sparks Association […]
Museo Peabody de Historia Natural de Yale
A veces me levanto por la mañana con ganas de dibujar un tema concreto. En el pasado he tenido un impulso para los coches clásicos, edificios, máquinas de construcción, personas, etc Esta mañana fue dinosaurios y desde que he dibujado la mayoría de los dinosaurios en mi área, conduje 2-1/2 horas a New Haven Connecticut [...].
Hotel Sketches a veces se siente como un trabajo duro - ¡pero sigo siendo adicto!
I’ve drawn every hotel room I’ve stayed in the past 8 years by measuring and drawing on location. It started off as just a simple way of remembering my trip along with all the other sketches I do during a trip. Recently this is starting to feel a little bit like work since no matter […]
Viernes de medio día: Paseo por el MIT y Harvard Square
The company I work for has summer hours – which means we work longer hours from Monday to Thursday but on Fridays we get to leave at lunch time. This is great since it makes the weekend feel really long! Last Friday an old friend from California was visiting town so we arranged to meet […]
Ceremonia japonesa del té en el interior de una casa centenaria de Kioto en el Museo Infantil de Boston.
A while back our friend Nao had mentioned she was taking a Japanese tea ceremony class and had asked my wife and I if we wanted to visit. I’ve always wanted to sketch a tea ceremony and she mentioned that her teacher (Sensei) did not have any issues – great! She mentioned that the class […]
Visita a la Estatua de la Libertad desde Nueva Jersey
Did you know that you could take a ferry to the Statue of Liberty island from New Jersey? I didn’t know this until visiting my father last weekend. This 1st sketch was done from my fathers apartment balcony looking across the Hudson river to the upper west side of Manhattan. The storm had just cleared […]
Sketching animals is so therapeutic
It’s been a few years since I last visited a Zoo. One weekend my wife, my photographer friend Tony and I headed out to the Roger Williams Park Zoo in Rhode Island. For a small state, this zoo is quite large and it’s quite nice too. We casually walked around the park, my friend took […]
Sketch Crawl de verano en Cape Cod
Last week Erica Szuplat contacted me via Flickr letting me know that she was running a Sketch Crawl in Falmouth, MA – a town at the base of beautiful Cape Cod. I was excited to finally meet some local sketchers and to visit this town for the first time so I drove down about an […]
‘Glosta’ Hummer
My wife and I took a quick day trip up to Gloucester Massachusetts. After having lived in New England for 6 years, I finally learned how to pronounce the name of this place today! It was a cloudy day so it wasn’t as scenic as it’s supposed to be on a nice day. Ended up […]