The town of Mendocino is really a sketcher’s paradise.

I have sketched this town many times and there are endless angles, perspectives, and hidden gems to add to my sketchbook.

As a sketcher you can either “zoom” in or “zoom” out depending on what strikes your fancy (no zoom lens required). For much of my panoramic sketches I chose to zoom out with a wide angle perspective.

For the featured sketch I positioned myself across the street from the Blair House (used in Murder, She Wrote) right beside Heider Field. The sketch looks towards Lansing Street at a water tower, old buildings, and the Masonic Lodge. A rustic townscape.

On another day I took a wide angle perspective from the small park across the Big River mouth to draw the bluffs and the town (below).

I did do a few sketches a little more “zoomed in”. One was of a water tower and the back of the Crown Hall and the other is at the Mendocino Headlands State Park and a black oystercatcher.