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Eleanor Doughty

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Location illustrator🎒📒 ✒️
📧info (at) edoughty.com📍Seattle

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A project that’s been on my mind for years came to fruition in time for @sketcherfest this summer… A WALK IN THE MARKET is an art book (limited to 100 copies) collects 30 of my favorite sketches & writing from my favorite place in Seattle. Risographed cover, hand-sewn binding, lovely cold press textured paper. It’s a special thing! Link in my bio for your copy.

I also adapted my @sketcherfest talk about the “making of” this book into a video on my YouTube page if you want all the gory details about its creation.

#uskseattle #pikeplacemarket #artbook taken in Seattle, Washington by @herbcoil

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2 months ago

Ahoy! I'm now hosting my monthly live painting demos on my new Vivify pod @vivify.ai -- link in bio. The next one is this Friday at 5pm PST. (the time alternates between morning and evening so more ppl can enjoy!)

For around the price of a latte per month, you can join the community and get access to recordings as well as my live online demos. Besides interacting on the stream and accessing recordings, you'll be able to upload your work based on the sessions, and suggest reference photos for me to work from. And more..!

I'll also upload some exclusive content -- for example, you can see my palette of mixed media materials I took on my most recent trip, and some artwork I haven't posted elsewhere.

I was hosting these demos via my Substack for the last year, but I felt that the platform wasn't quite right for this content. While I will still be publishing my writing+sketches over there, I think Vivify is a better fit.

(PS if you are a premium subscriber on substack and want to move, i am happy to facilitate, just DM me)

I hope you'll try it out, even just for a month or two! See you Friday? by @herbcoil

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8 months ago

it’s DOMESTIKA DAY!
find a link in my bio to take my published course and see the full trailer 🤩🤩🤩
man, it feels good to finally say that~
(It’s better for me if you use the referral link 🙏)

Expressive Cityscapes is about: using mixed media to show motion and depth, and showing what you feel in a place, and embracing chance and imperfection.
Lots more info on the course page!

get an additional 10% off during opening week with my code HERBCOIL-LAUNCH at checkout 🎁🎁🎁

OH and I’ll appreciate it a lot if you share this in your stories, and/or let me know what you think in the comments here!

#urbansketchers #seattleartist #uskseattle #domestika #illustration by @herbcoil

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Early fall visit to Portland 🍁 bringing my bike on the amtrak was the MOVE 🚲 It was such a nice way to get around town for all the activities (except for a couple rainy hours)

I live sketched a wedding (so fun, so hard!!), gave a talk at @visitahc, and taught a workshop during my 3 day visit. Did I take any pictures at those things? Uhh, barely. 🤦

It was so lovely to meet some of the sketching community - especially @pdxusk admin @amystewart who encouraged me to do 2 of these things way back at @sketcherfest . I am very persuadable 🙌

#urbansketchers #uskpdx #pdxusk #travelsketch #mixedmedia by @herbcoil

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The 2027 @ronkiponk & @herbcoil joint workshop experience will be in Newfoundland, Canada next year!

With @peteryanphoto as our guide, we'll capture & explore stunning and rustic locations in St. John's and the Bonavista peninsula over 6 days. We'll lead 3 workshops each about using mixed media on location.

Participants should plan to arrive by midday on the 9th.

We can't wait to experience this place and sketch with you.

More info at the link in our bios. taken in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador by @herbcoil

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7 days ago

omg that katsu sando slapped hard 🥪

I had fun drawing here in the friendly communal setting! decompressing from my workshop in PDX - what a busy and fun weekend here in the city of roses 🌹

#urbansketchers #uskportland #uskpdx #locationdrawing #elambooks taken in Portland, Oregon by @herbcoil

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Last week, we announced our next demo in our Live Demo Series: Parallel Pen Play with Eleanor Doughty (@herbcoil)—link in bio! ⁠
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Join us online on Wednesday, October 14th at noon Pacific to explore varying line weight with Pilot Parallel Pens. These pens are ideal for building a strong value structure and are an excellent tool for transforming mundane scenes into a striking sketch!⁠
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What to Bring⁠

• Pens: Pilot Parallel Pens, any fountain pen with a fude (bent) nib, or a square-tipped calligraphy marker with waterproof ink.⁠

• Marker/Watercolors: A light-colored brush pen or thick marker, or your favorite watercolors for adding over your waterproof ink sketch.⁠

• Brushes: A favorite round brush.⁠

• Paper: Smooth, heavyweight paper, such as hot press or lightly-textured cold press.⁠

• BONUS: Eleanor shared her amazing, illustrated downloadable resource, “Drawing with Calligraphy Pens.” This 8-page PDF is a perfect, concise guide to calligraphy pens, offering tips, exercises, and ways to modify your tools. Find it via our Events page link in our bio.⁠
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Eleanor Doughty (dow-tee) is a Seattle-based illustrator and urban sketcher, whose mixed media work captures realistic subjects and imbues them with significance and character. Inspired by artists such as Charley Harper and Masaaki Yuasa, her style is lighthearted and nostalgic. Learn more about Eleanor on her website, edoughty.com, and follower her on Instagram, @herbcoil. by @herbcoil

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12 days ago

It was nice outside this weekend and I got to draw quite a bit, around errands and a @uskseattle meetup. Here are three mixed media drawings I made in my sketchbook. taken in Seattle, Washington by @herbcoil

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Join us online for our next live demo, Parallel Pen Play with Eleanor Doughty (@herbcoil) on Wednesday, October 14th at noon Pacific—link in bio! ⁠
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Calligraphy pens can create an amazing range of line widths and effects depending on the angle and pressure applied. In this demo, we will explore varying line weight in our sketches as Eleanor demonstrates how to use Pilot Parallel Pens, an accessible yet powerful tool that works as well for drawing and dynamic mark-making as it does for calligraphy writing, for which it was originally developed!⁠
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These pens are ideal for building a strong value structure—an important foundation for all urban sketching—and are an excellent tool for transforming mundane scenes into a striking sketch! We hope to see you there! ⁠
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Not able to join us live? The demo recording will be available shortly after the live session on our Demos page, link in bio!⁠
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⁠About Eleanor | Eleanor Doughty (dow-tee) is a Seattle-based illustrator and urban sketcher, whose mixed media work captures realistic subjects and imbues them with significance and character. Inspired by artists such as Charley Harper and Masaaki Yuasa, her style is lighthearted and nostalgic. Learn more about Eleanor on her website, edoughty.com. by @herbcoil

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I am giving a book talk in Portland in a couple weeks! It's free, just RSVP at the link in my bio. It would be great to see you there :^)
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A Walk in the Market (2026) is an art book by Eleanor Doughty documents daily life in Seattle's Pike Place Market between 2019 and 2026 through sketches created on location.

Inspired by Victor Steinbrueck's "Market Sketchbook" (1968), this volume carries on the tradition of drawing from life in this dynamic and special place. It's part walking guide, part art book, part documentation of Pike Place in this era.

Echoing the "meet the producer" mission of the Market, the book itself was self-produced as a small run of art books, using all Seattle-sourced materials and makers.

This book talk will introduce Pike Place Market, detail the nitty-gritty of executing an artisanal book project, and share how documenting daily life in a sketchbook can be transformative. taken in Portland Oregon by @herbcoil

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20 days ago

@bajzek is our Street View World Tour guest this month! We can't wait to see this master draftsperson demo for us Thursday at 10am PDT/7pm CET. More info at streetviewworldtour.com or link in @herbcoil bio.

NOTE There is a NEW LINK (yes, again) for the stream this time - make sure you have the right one, posted in the streetviewworldtour.com "upcoming meeting" tab. We went back to Zoom because Reasons. Our capacity is 97 people, so try and log in early.

ABOUT STREET VIEW WORLD TOUR: every 1st Thursday we join artists around the world on Zoom and draw from 4 different locations found on Google Maps Street View. It’s a great way to practice sketching and see some interesting places. We also invite a guest artist who does a ca. 25 min demo for the group.

Hosted by @ronkiponk and @herbcoil
#streetviewworldtour by @herbcoil

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21 days ago

Dropping in on our neighbors to the north 🇨🇦👋 thanks @thesneakyartist for hosting and sharing your neck of the woods!

#urbansketchers #elambooks #uskvancouver #travelsketch #locationdrawing taken in Vancouver, British Columbia by @herbcoil

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