Hello everyone! I am so far behind on posting, it’s hard to know where to start. Going from where I left off would be a good idea, I suppose, but maybe not. I was hoping to have caught up by now, but I have been finding it difficult to sit and concentrate long enough to write posts to go with all these sketches, and I’ve not slowed down on sketching, not on your nelly. I also want to be writing about this World Cup that is going on right now, draining all attention and giving me headaches, but we are already near the end of the group stages. In the past I would have done a run-down of every team with a little drawing of their kit, but there are so many teams, I did not do that this time. I did make a lot of decorations including a big detailed wall chart. But for my own purposes, I’ll list here what I need to catch up on posting before I do all of that, in or out of order. This feels a bit like an annual appraisal, like I have to do at work, but it’s good to organize myself and remember what I’ve done. So where was I last, I was in Pasadena last September for the big Oasis show. So after that…

• September sketches in Davis
• Fall 2025 First-Year Class on Urban Sketching
• October sketches in Davis
• Oregon trip October 2025 (Corvallis, Portland, Multnomah Falls)
• November/December sketches in Davis
• Christmas 2025 sketches
• Also, my 2025 Advent Calendar
• San Francisco January 2026
• January sketches in Davis
• London February 2026
• Cotswolds February 2026
• February/March/April sketches in Davis
• Picnic Day 2026
• Art Brut SF show April 2026
• Pence Gallery Urban Sketching Course May 2026
• May/June sketches in Davis
• Montreal / Formula 1 sketches May 2026
• Pride Sketches June 2026
• San Francisco June 2026
• Various Let’s Draw Davis sketchcrawls
• World Cup 2026 sketches

Doesn’t seem too much to catch up with! Ok, this will be my planning list. That’s quite a lot actually. It’s just that this summer I am going to the Urban Sketching Symposium in Toulouse, another big adventure, and I always come back from those with way too many sketches and buckets of inspiration to draw more. Anyway to start off with, here is one of the first sketches I did after the Supergrass/Oasis weekend. It’s the Natsoulas Gallery on Russell Boulevard, the one with the big cat and the big dog outside.