Live in Portland on the Sneaky Book Tour

Listen/watch my conversation with Amy Stewart + next events + a new course

Dear reader,

After forgetting to take even pics at a couple of book events, I made up for it in Portland by recording the whole thing. It was a warm, cozy evening at Broadway Books. Not only did I have a great conversation with Amy Stewart, the audience asked was thoughtful and generous enough to laugh at all the right places. I was a little giddy seeing the video afterwards!

You can catch it on the latest episode of the SneakyArt Podcast (available everywhere you listen to podcasts), or watch it on YouTube.

Portland was the penultimate stop of the Sneaky Book Tour - I drove up to Seattle the next day - and now I am officially done for the year. The next events on the calendar are:

💻 [ONLINE] 3 January 2026 with OPUS Art Supplies.

🎟️ [IN-PERSON] 15-19 January 2026 at the Jaipur Literature Festival in India.

If you have read and enjoyed my book this year, would you say good things about it on Amazon or Goodreads?

If you have not read it yet, consider making it a New Year’s present to yourself or another person in your life!

How would your life change if, whenever you found a free moment, you reached for a sketchbook instead of your phone?

One of 50+ lessons in my *new* course

I just designed a new course incorporating the ideas and techniques I use to draw on location. If you are part of my Tiny People course that released earlier this year, you will get info about this one soon. For everyone else, sign up to the waitlist to be in the loop for more info + a Black Friday deal.

This course will help you -

✍🏼 build a sketchbook habit,

🥹 overcome the anxiety of drawing in public spaces, and

🙌🏽 be part of a community of learners around the world.

With 50+ lessons and 6+ hours of instruction, inspiration, ideas, and techniques, I think of it as the perfect complement to my book. It is the ideal product for visual learners and anyone who wants me on their phone when they venture out with a sketchbook. If you have enjoyed my previous demos or workshops, I promise you will love this too.

I would love to answer your questions about it in the comments.

Hiding tiny drawings in the bookstore, these are the books I was able to recommend to my audience in Portland. It am pleased to learn this week that Omar El Akkad has won the US National Book Award for One Day, Everyone will have Always been Against This.

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And this is where I hid drawings at my event the next day at the Couth Buzzard in Seattle. (More about this wonderful evening soon.)

It is so great to be in your inbox this week. Thank you.