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At 1pm on Saturday I'll be doing a Sketchbook show & tell at Meininger Art Supplies with Michael Kalman from Stillman & Birn .  I'll be showing a lot of the work I've been doing in my Stillman & Birns these past few months, so if you're in the area you should come and check it out!  In case you haven't noticed, I think these are great sketchbooks- easily the nicest I've ever worked in.  I've even tried out some new materials.  Here's a few of the sketches I'll be showing.

1940 Studebaker Commander (one of only four according to the owners.)   I rarely do these.  I usually leave it to the prodigious , talented professionals . Tombow markers and Staedtler Pigment Liner in Stillman & Birn Gamma series sketchbook.

Still loving my Gamma series Stillman and Birn sketchbook.  A few more: Another sketch in the Denver Public Library: Dining room chair (in the living room).  A late-night session. Sketched from  the Library, the Denver Skyline. This was a watercolor sketch, but I wasn't too fond of the way it came out, so I put it in grayscale in Photoshop. At the Laughing Latte in LoHi A bonus Moleskine sketch of the Dan Ostermiller's larger-than-life Scottish Angus Cow and Calf  in front of the Denver Art Museum.

More marker sketches from my Stillman & Birn sketchbook.  Can't get enough of either right now. Denver Public Library This building just demands to be drawn, what with looking like one of those cities you make from blocks as a child.  It's a Michael Graves, but it's not so much kitschy to me as it is just elegantly simple, but still with great details. Starbucks inside the REI flagship store in LoDo. Yeah, I didn't even go into the REI.  The building was built in 1901 and overlooks Confluence Park.  A cool space.

It's interesting to do these marker sketches, because I feel I can spend more time laying them out and less time hatching, as the markers take care of the value pretty quickly.  I've been using a Stillman & Birn sketchbook for the first time with these, and so far it's great with wet media like Tombow markers. Water tower in Federal Heights, Denver This was sketched from inside the car.  It's near a hospital, and apparently this street serves as overflow employee parking, as there were people in scrubs getting in and out of these cars all day.  When I arrived, the sun was out and casting the nice shadow on the base of the tower you see here.  As I began laying in values with the markers, it clouded up and rained, and just about all of the shadows disappeared.  Fortunately I had penciled in the location of the shadow early on, or this would be a pretty dull sketch. Wooden derrick in the rotunda of the Western History and Genealogy dept, Denver Public L...