Sketchbook Cleveland

"Imitation is the sincerest form of plagiarism."
— Oscar Levant


Also one of my favorite places.
Have you been enjoying Julia Kuo's 100 Days in Cleveland? Good, because it's a great blog and I love her work. She has gotten a great deal of attention recently, thanks to me, in the Plain Dealer and on WCPN.

This must have come as a great surprise to Karen Sandstrom, former PD reporter turned graphic designer who has been blogging her sketches of Cleveland for over five years, and even has a column in Ohio Authority called Sketchbook Cleveland where, you guessed it, she has been posting drawings of her favorite places in Cleveland for longer than one hundred days.

Please take a moment for another graphic trip around Cleveland, this time with Karen, to the zoo, the Renaissance, and Gray's Armory.

100 Days In Cleveland

Hot Sauce Williams on Carnegie
This is why it pays to be friends with Larry Collins on Facebook. Today he posted a link to 100 Days In Cleveland, which is now my favorite blog in the universe. Julia Kuo has a mission to draw or paint her favorite places in Cleveland, one day at a time for 100 days.

Make it a year, Julia! Please! These are utterly beautiful and every one of them makes me so happy.


Marc's on Coventry
If you hadn't noticed, I keep a Cleveland-oriented blogroll at left (Cleveland: It's Fun!) Please feel free to suggest others. kliːvlənd recently announced its own demise. Wimp.