在日本的3周 - 第一部分：东京
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 […]
波士顿消防博物馆
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 […]
酒店素描有时感觉很辛苦--然而我仍然沉迷于此!
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 […]
周五半天。在麻省理工学院和哈佛广场周围散步
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 […]
Japanese tea cermony inside a 100 year old house from Kyoto @ Boston Children’s Museum !?
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 […]
从新泽西参观自由女神像
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 […]
Summer Sketch Crawl at 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 […]