Happy Year of the Fire Horse! Did you know that in addition to the 12 animals, there is a cycle of the 5 Chinese elements, too? These linocut block print Lunar New Year cards are going out to friends and family soon. I printed a couple extra if you're interested in purchasing! wayleeart.square.site

I've set up a website for my art and am going to see how far it goes! You may have seen that I've been posting a lot of painting and sketching lately. Now that @waylee.art is set up, I'll focus my art over there and keep this account focused on my comics. www.waylee.art

First @urbansketchers.bsky.social Seattle outing of 2026 for me, and I’m glad I braved the cold to paint outside! I really like how this painting of @mohaiseattle.bsky.social came out. #watercolor #pleinair #onlocation #art #painting

More 🎾 life gesture sketching #lifedrawing #gesturesketching #sketch #tennis

The Maurice Sendak Nutcracker ballet props! This house in Seattle exhibits them every year, hosted by one of the Pacific Northwest Ballet orchestra members. Sketched with mittens on to try to save my fingers, which are getting a little frost bitten. #nutcracker #sendak #sketch #urbansketchers

Happy New Year, everyone! May 2026 bring you enlightenment. 🧘‍♀️ Made this comic at the monthly DUNE comics jam in Seattle.

Last Urban Sketchers Seattle meetup of 2025! #watercolor #onlocation #pleinair #urbansketchers

I wrote a recap post for 2025 and shared the progress I've made over all the watercolor sketches and paintings I did over the past two months, and also a look ahead to 2026. Check it out here!

Gonna have to get to tennis clinics early more often! #people #tennis #art #sketch #lifedrawing

Painted another view over Lake Washington from Magnuson Park, this time on a very grey, foggy, cloudy morning, but with great atmospheric light in the distance and the sun breaking through the clouds occasionally. #pleinair #onlocation #urbansketchers #watercolor #art #artsky

Holy cow it was freaking windy on this day! At one point my paint brush case, water jar lid, and a plastic bag took to the air and made a run for it. But on the plus side I got this great painting out of it! #pleinair #onlocation #watercolor #artsky #urbansketchers #art #sketch

Watercolor is fun! #pleinair #onlocation #watercolor #art #urbansketchers #tradart #sketch #artsky

A little sketch of Pike Place Market while waiting for friends to arrive. A great thing about sketching is you can do it anywhere! #sketch #urbansketchers #pikeplacemarket #onlocation #pleinaire #art #tradart

Watercolor is starting to click! The exuberant yellow foliage of these tall, thin trees in Magnuson Park in Seattle struck me as I was looking for what to paint. #watercolor #sketch #onlocation #pleinaire #urbansketchers #landscape #art

Happy Thanksgiving! And thanks to this barred owl for hanging out and letting me sketch it! Feel lucky to have stumbled on it and noticed it camouflaged in plain site. #owl #sketch #lifedrawing

Just a fountain pen on this grey Thanksgiving Eve. It’s nice to focus on one tool. Also good b/c it started misting, so I was glad to be able to move faster! Ignore the white paint—I used this sheet as a test sheet earlier. 😅 #sketch #drawing #landscape #urbansketchers #nature #art

Took my new gloves for a test drive, and I'm happy to say that they work! Kept my hands a workable temperature on a day where I had to pull up my puffy jacket's hood. Really like how this sketch turned out. Playing with approaches continues. #watercolor #onlocation #pleinaire #urbansketchers #art

I've come a long way with my on location sketching techniques and materials since the end of 2023! It's great to look back and see healthy progress. Enjoyed a great #urbansketchers Seattle chapter outing this weekend at KEXP. #art #sketch #onlocation #watercolor #tradart

Learning lots, learning lots. Watercolor is hard! #watercolor #sketch #pleinaire #onlocation #urbansketchers #art #tradart

BTW, Short Run went great! Thank you to everyone who checked out my table and bought books! There was a steady flow of visitors despite the new location. I had by far my best show yet, and even sold out of the stock of The BOOK of DEATH Haiku Comics that I'd brought. A good sign for its future.

I'm making an effort to spend more time in nature and away from screens. This means I'm gonna get gud at on-location watercolor. #sketch #watercolor #pleinaire #onlocation #artsky #art

Hey folks, I’ll be at the Poulsbo Kids’ Book Festival this Saturday, November 15th, along with a whole slew of other authors and illustrators! www.poulsbokidsbookfest.com

More watercolor trees! Now with humans! Tried hard to keep it in a narrow warm register. #sketch #watercolor #pleinaire #onlocation #artsky #art

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If you're in Seattle THIS SATURDAY NOV 1st, see me and 150 other indie comic artists at Short Run Comix Festival 2025! Admission is FREE!

Hey there! I'm an artist, cartoonist, and writer based in Seattle. I write and illustrate metaphysical comics and draw and paint landscapes en plein aire focusing on water-based media. My latest comic project was The BOOK of DEATH Haiku Comics, pictured with my other two! More at zenosarrow.net.

Sometimes it’s good to just do studies to focus on something more particular. I love how the trees came out by the end. #sketch #trees #pleinaire #tradart #inkdrawing

Didn't start out trying to take this approach, but really like a lot of what happened and learned a lot! This sketch is from Discovery Park in Seattle. #pleinaire #watercolor #sketch #art #naturalmedia #urbansketchers

Playing with new approaches. This is at Carkeek Park's demonstration garden in Seattle. #pleinaire #sketch #watercolor #naturalmedia #urbansketchers #art

Coming up this Friday: I'll be teaching a free online workshop in abstract haiku comics (yes, it's a thing!)... www.sequentialartistsworkshop.org/freefnc-signup?

Definitely top secret science stuff going on at a structure like this in the middle of a big field. (The radar antenna dome at Discovery Park in Seattle.) #pleinaire #watercolor #art #sketch #urbansketchers

It's funny looking at the past's vision of the future. One day, people will look back at our movies of today and chuckle. This was fun to draw/paint. The Space Needle and Monorail are somehow still iconic in their retro futuristic glory. #artsky #art #illustration #pleinaire #urbansketchers

Help @outsidercomics.com move shop if you can! Picked up a few books from the moving sale this weekend. 😃

Ballard's farmers market is a busy attraction every Sunday. This was done in the afternoon, as the market was clearing out, which is why I had a little more space to see down the avenue and draw. #urbansketchers #art #pleinaire #sketchbook

Seeing the Bill Watterson originals full of pencil lines of stuff that didn’t work, scuffs the eraser didn’t pick up, white out galore and more was something I needed to see to remind myself that nothing is perfect the first go and tweaks need to be made and you’re allowed to try again.

Here's a direct link to the fundraiser. You can get an obstruction permit by helping us pay some very nice people many thousands of dollars to sort out our construction permits. shop.outsidercomics.com/products/202... Thanks for the support so far <3 <3 <3

Moar bus sketches #people #sketch #art

Finished another book on the out trip so it’s sketch time on the homeward trip. #lifedrawing #people #sketchbook #art #artsky #inkdrawing

Georgetown Steam Plant has so much cool and dramatic machinery and environment. Had to run early so I had to add the blues later on. #urbansketchers #inkdrawing #art #artsky #drawing #illustration #seattle

Lil cafe sketching. Mineral water is a great cafe addition for us non-caffeinated folks! I’m still amazed by what just black ink can do. #artsky #sketch #cafesketch

If you’re in Seattle’s Capitol Hill neighborhood, you can now find my graphic novella Blood of My Blood at Haunted Burrow Books!

Just a lil boaty mcboatface sketching action with #urbansketchers #Seattle at the Leschi Marina. #artsky #art #pleinaire #sketchbook #illustration #boat #traditionalart #naturalmedia

Beach sketching 🏖️ #lifedrawing #artsky #art #sketchbook #urbansketching #pleinaire #illustration

This one goes out to the late X-ers and Elder Millenials! Silly comic I made for DUNE comics night at @hugohouse.bsky.social. #comics #animals #bird #artsky #illustration

Great talk by @keezyyoung.bsky.social today! Really appreciated hearing about their journey to comics and getting published, having to think about whether to publish (ahem Eisner and Ignatz nominated) Sunflowers, and their approach to research. Thanks for sharing your experience, Keezy!

Graaaah!! So angry!!!

Forgot to share this one! Farm day for #urbansketchers Seattle chapter, visiting the east side of Lake Washingngton. #artsky #sketchbook #art #illustration #indrawing #farm #barn

Got to attend a great haiku comics workshop led by @davidlasky.bsky.social tonight!

An absolutely amazing zine someone made at our F the Fourth event last month. (Pleasw let us know if this was you & if you want to be credited!!) 1/2

Heading into the weekend like- ❤️📚 Sketching with @urbansketchers.bsky.social #Seattle chapter at Third Place Books in Lake Forest Park. #urbansketchers #booksky #art #illustration #sketchbook #artsky #drawing #inkdrawing