From Portland, the two of us rode the Amtrak-Cascade up to Seattle with stops in Vancouver, Pasco, Salem, Olympia and Tacoma. The trip was incredibly successful, leaving and arriving on time both trips. There were quite a few passengers on the train, including 75 elementary students from Eugene.We spent the afternoon on Seattle's Waterfront after getting wonderful Japanese food and eating at the UPS fountain while doing a little sketching. Before headed back to Portland, Landon and I walked up to the new Seattle Public Library, a fairly new structure designed by Rem Koolhaas of OMA.

Spring Break 2010

Over U of Idaho's spring break 2010, my boyfriend and I took a journey through the Pacific Northwest, beginning in Moscow, ID where we live. Starting North, we spent the night with Landon's parents in the Coeur d' Alene/Spokane area. After camping in Mt. Rainer National Forest and visiting Mt. St. Helens, we headed to the Pacific, off the coast of Washington. Taking Hwy 101, Landon and I saw the mouth of the Columbia River down to Tillamook. We then headed back inland, spending a few days in Portland, the site of my graduate thesis project and potential home after graduation. In Portland I was able to sketch a few of my favorite spots.

The Amalfi Coast One of my favorite places in Italy; Atrani, a small hill village on the Amalfi coast. The group I was traveling with had a relaxing weekend sketching, observing, climbing the 1000's of steps from town to town and, of course, enjoying the beautiful weather on the oceanside.

Spring 2010

This series experiements with a hybrid of sketching and journaling, skernaling. The watercolor sketches were done in Rome, Italy while I was living and traveling while attending a semester of my graduate architecture program over the summer of 2009.