Greetings from Portland!

Hello from Portland, Oregon...my name in Linda Engstrom and I attended the first symposium here, as well as the one in Lisbon. I live about 20 miles from the city on rural property, so don't always get to the sketch crawls, but enjoy sketching the buildings and bridges when I do go in! I work mainly in pen and ink as well as watercolor, and have taught landscape illustration at the Community College in Portland for over 25 years. My favorite subjects are trees!

I'm traveling to Barcelona with my husband and looking forward to reconnecting with some of the wonderful sketchers who I met a few years ago, and who I have continued to follow over the Internet. I  think that there are five of us Urban Sketchers coming from Portland! I have never been to Spain and am excited to finally get to explore Barcelona. We will be spending the following week in Mallorca....with more sketching! This week in Portland we are having a heat wave with temps in the high 90 degrees F .... perhaps preparing us! Can't wait to learn more, and be around so many talented people....see you all in a week!!

A few of Portland's many bridges

Pen and inks

the Portland library and a home on San Juan Island in Washington state

A pencil sketch of a walnut tree in our garden

My website is www.gardenaesthetics.com