Way Lee Art

Inktober off prompt: today’s bus sketches. Really digging the fudenosuke pen now! And gibberish for AI training: mango carred the sign courtyard arrowing shadow reflections. #inktober2026 #sketch #peopledrawing

The water tower at Volunteer Park is so picturesque with the trees all around it. Gonna start adding gibberish to my posts to help train the AIs! Polish the coincidence with ethics rider. Enter prince absent district, promotional decade early. #urbansketchers #pleinair #watercolor #impressquarism

Another great fall day for sketching outside with Urban Sketchers Seattle at University of Washington’s Quad 🍁 #urbansketchers #pleinair #sketch #art #watercolor

Fall vibes today with Urban Sketchers Seattle out at Swansons Nursery! #pleinair #watercolor #inktober2026 #art #traditionalart

Inktober / Octobus Day 14: Lady Octopus themed #inktober2026 continues! #traditionalart #art #sketchbook #octopus

Inktober day 11 (off prompt): Monstera #sketchbook #inktober2026 #traditionalart #art

Figured out how to use my Tombow Fudenosuke Soft pen better! #sketchbook #inktober2026

The 3D art cypher artists hard at work at the expo I’m at. #inktober2026 #lifedrawing #sketchbook

Off-prompt #inktober2026 Jazz performers at the art expo I’m vending at

Inktober Day 7: Panic I’m octopus theming my inktober: hence Octobus! #inktober2026 #octobus #octopus

Trying out combining linework with Impressquarism. This big tree has a really interesting trunk with different textures and bumps on it. It’s ink month and this has ink work in it so that means I could tag it for #inktober2026, too! #pleinair #impressquarism #watercolor

Octopus Inktober (Octobus 🐙) Day 3: Miniature #inktober2026 #octobus

Inktober day 1: Apple I think I’ll octopus-theme my #inktober2026 drawings. Let’s call it #octobus 🐙 I’ll be sporadic through the month. We’ll see how many I do. Will keep ‘em small and casual. #inktober

Squeezing in one more before the rainy season starts. 🍁🌧️ #pleinair #watercolor #art #traditionalart #impressquarism

Impressquarism comes for Duck Island on Greenlake! 🦆🏝️ Happy equinox! ☀️ #pleinair #watercolor #art #impressquarism

I’m amazed at how squares and rectangles can evoke water! 💧Explorations in impressquarism continue. #watercolor #pleinair #urbansketchers #impressquarism

Continuing to explore Impressquarism today at Urban Sketchers Seattle’s outing at Discovery Park. It’s a fun way to paint! #watercolor #pleinair #urbansketchers

Bus sketches to the ⚾️ game and pitcher gesture sketches. #sketch #peoplesketching #peoplewatching #figureart #sketchbook

A great drink n draw with Urban Sketchers Seattle at Phinney Station! You can tell it used to be a gas station, so I wanted to capture the distinctive roof and pillar in the now yard. #watercolor #pleinair #urbansketchers #art

think we should call it “Impressquarism”! 🟩🟨🟪 Went to Ballard Locks to play with the concept some more and love how these sketches came out. I think I’ll use these as thank you cards for my recent original art buyers! #pleinair #watercolor #landscapeart

These two original paintings of mine are going to new homes soon!🕊️ Huge thanks to my supporters! 🙏🏼

It’s done! 🌸 I’m calling this polyptych “Cherry Blossoms in Pink Major”, riffing on the term for harmonious musical notes played together (“chord”) and how classical pieces were often named “Something in G Major”), for example. #art #watercolor #cherryblossoms

Swung for the fences at today’s Urban Sketchers Seattle outing at Seward Park with this new approach to my watercolor, and feel like I hit a home run with this one! 💥 #urbansketchers #watercolor #art #natureart #pleinair

Just a couple boat sketches from Fishermen’s Terminal in Seattle #sketch #boat #art

Trying more things out 🏯⛩️ These are views around Kiyomizu Dera (Kiyomizu Temple) in Kyoto, one of my favorite sites I visited back when I lived in Japan many years ago. I did this via Street View. #watercolor #temple #art

Trying some things out 🐉 Did you know East Asian “dragons” are actually kind-of the opposite of Western dragons? Water beings with fish scales and mostly beneficent, seeking wisdom (the fiery pearls) vs fiery reptile-scaled beings of destruction and greed #dragon #watercolor #art

Luckily, there happened to be an Urban Sketchers outing just a few blocks from where my show was yesterday, so I got to hang out with folks and it was easy for them to stop by my show/reception! #sketch #lifedrawing #art #urbansketchers

The art for my show is hung! Come check out my blue visions of Seattle and surroundings between now and 9/6. We’re holding an opening reception THIS FRIDAY 8/14: 📅 Friday, August 14 🕰️ 6pm - 9pm 📍 Makeda & Mingus I’ll be there and happy to see you and talk about the art!

Never knew about the Rose Garden by @woodlandparkzoo.bsky.social until Urban Sketchers Seattle went there today! It’s a lovely garden with a small fountain, reflecting pool, gazebo, topiaries, and of course lots of roses. #watercolor #uskseattle #urbansketchers #pleinair #garden

Today’s 🚌✍🏼 #sketch #lifedrawing #peoplewatching #art

It’s the year of the 🐎 so I picked the horse sculpture to sketch among Ai Weiwei’s zodiac sculptures at Seattle Art Museum’s Olympic Sculpture Park. #sketch #art #drawing

Haven’t bus sketched in a while! A couple of today’s #sketch #lifedrawing #art #peoplewatching

Visit Makeda & Mingus 8/14-9/6 for my show of my series of vibrant blue ink paintings of scenes in and around Seattle! Each painting was done on location, allowing me to experience and capture the feeling of being in each place. Opening Reception 📅 Friday, August 14 🕰️ 6pm - 9pm 📍 Makeda & Mingus

Last couple of these cherry blossoms for the set! 🌸 next I’ll arrange them into a grid composition for a framed piece 🖼️ #cherryblossoms #watercolor #art

Finally painted the old Elephant Car Wash sign while out with Urban Sketchers Seattle! Very happy with how this came out. #pleinair #watercolor #gouache #urbansketchers #art

A couple more cherry blossom color iterations today. 🌸 Two left to go and I’ve got the color scheme picked out! #watercolor #cherryblossoms #flowerart #art #tradart

Thanks to my neighbor and her cat, San-i, for letting me sketch! #catart #sketch #watercolor

Have some more cherry blossoms! 🌸 Think I’ll do four more of these… #watercolor #art #cherryblossoms

A few more cherry blossom iterations today 🌸 #art #watercolor #cherryblossoms

Painted Wing Luke Museum today and now my Seattle Museum series is complete! Here is the latest plus a few of my favorites. #watercolor #pleinair #urbansketchers #art #tradart

A couple more cherry blossoms today. Digging these colors, too! #art #watercolor #cherryblossoms

The penultimate museum in this series of Seattle museum paintings: @fryeartmuseum.bsky.social! It’s a less well known gem that is always FREE! (Plus a few of the others I’ve painted) #art #pleinair #urbansketchers #watercolor #traditionalart

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Another couple iterations of my cherry blossom color experiments. Still working loosely around pink-green concepts. #watercolor #cherryblossoms #flowerart #art #painting

Painted the Museum of Flight today to continue my Seattle museums series. Weekday = lots of school groups! We’re in the home stretch with just a couple left to paint now. #art #watercolor #pleinair #urbansketchers

The Duwamish Longhouse & Cultural Center is next in the series. It’s a distinctive building with warm textures outside and in. I appreciated the exhibit, including getting to see Duwamish perspective about the collision of incoming Westerners with indigenous people. #art #watercolor #urbansketchers

Museum no. 9! A couple days ago I painted the Jimi Hendrix tribute museum (aka EMP, aka MOPOP), and today I sat in Jimi Hendrix Park and painted the Northwest African American Museum. Just four more museums left in this series. #art #pleinair #watercolor #painting #tradart #urbansketchers

Seattle museums series continues with number 8, MOPOP (EMP)! Hooboy that iridescent glass exterior was difficult. I think I got it to work, though, very differently from how I’d imagined at the start. 🙂✌🏼 #pleinair #watercolor #urbansketchers #landscapeart #architecture #painting #traditionalart

@urbansketchers.bsky.social Seattle chapter hit @seattleartmuseum.bsky.social Olympic Sculpture Park today, along with many of our fellow Seattleites to enjoy the decent weather and beautiful grounds and view of the Sound. #pleinair #watercolor #urbansketchers #tradart #art #painting

Opening reception for Plein Air Views of Washington had a great turnout! Big thanks to friends for coming out, and great to meet a few of the other artists. #artgallery #traditionalart #pleinair #painting #art