Drawing Gratitude

I’m thankful for the people and places that have found their way into my sketchbook. Here’s a peek at a few photos from my sketching journeys.

It’s Thanksgiving in America, and I’m pausing my current travels to reflect on gratitude. I feel fortunate to be able to travel and make art in places near and exotic. Most of all, I treasure the chance to draw and spend time with the people I’ve met. Each sketch, each moment of presence, shapes my path.

I’m especially thankful for you, my subscribers, especially the paying ones 🙏🏼, who support, comment, encourage and keep my writing and image-making going.

By way of thanks, I’m sharing a selection of photographs that embody the gratitude I carry. I seldom share these, trusting that the drawings alone are enough to carry the story I want to tell. But here are some glimpses of my journey: pen in hand, with heart open.

Etching icebergs at Glacial Lagoon, Jökulsárlón, Iceland

Viewing the room at the Amridil Kasbah in Skoura, Morocco

Taking in what’s left of Middletown, California after the Camp Fire

Waiting for the crab to come in at Noyo Harbor, Ft. Bragg

Working and not working Floralis Genérica in Buenos Aires

Embedded as a reporter artist at a Civil War reenactment in Mariposa, California

Waiting for humpbacks on a sunset cruise near Honolulu

Taking in the vastness of Glacier National Park

Fascination with the geisha at Another C Restaurant, Kyoto

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Photos by Christine Egan

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