3 semaines au Japon - Partie 1 : Tokyo

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 […]

Boston Fire Museum

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 […]

Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History

I sometimes wake up in the morning with a strong urge to sketch a specific topic. In the past I’ve had an urge for classic cars, buildings, construction machines, people etc This morning it was Dinosaurs and since I’ve sketched most of the dinosaurs in my area, I drove 2-1/2 hours to New Haven Connecticut […]

Hotel Sketches ressemble parfois à un dur labeur - Pourtant, je suis toujours accro !

J'ai dessiné toutes les chambres d'hôtel dans lesquelles j'ai séjourné ces huit dernières années en mesurant et en dessinant sur place. Au départ, il s'agissait d'une simple façon de me souvenir de mon voyage, comme tous les autres croquis que je fais pendant un voyage. Ces derniers temps, cela commence à ressembler à du travail, car peu importe [...].

Demi-journée le vendredi : Promenade autour du MIT et de 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 […]

Visiter la Statue de la Liberté depuis le New 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 […]

Faire des croquis d'animaux est tellement thérapeutique.

Cela fait quelques années que je n'ai pas visité un zoo. Un week-end, ma femme, mon ami photographe Tony et moi sommes allés au zoo de Roger Williams Park à Rhode Island. Pour un petit état, ce zoo est assez grand et il est aussi très joli. Nous nous sommes promenés tranquillement dans le parc, mon ami a pris [...]

Sketch Crawl d'été à Cape Cod

La semaine dernière, Erica Szuplat m'a contactée via Flickr pour me faire savoir qu'elle organisait un Sketch Crawl à Falmouth, MA - une ville située au pied du magnifique Cape Cod. J'étais excitée à l'idée de rencontrer enfin des croqueurs locaux et de visiter cette ville pour la première fois, alors j'ai conduit jusqu'à [...].

Hummer 'Glosta'.

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 […]