https://ericmroberts.comWatercolor paintings, sketches and stories by Eric M Roberts, an architect and artist in Las Vegas, Nevada.https://ericmroberts.com/blog/a-watercolor-christmas/https://ericmroberts.com/blog/a-watercolor-christmas/ Thu, 05 Nov 2026 12:00:00 +0000Every December I end up painting Christmas trees. Something about colored lights glowing in the snow keeps pulling me back to the paper. This year I gathered four of those paintings into a printable card set: O Tannenbaum, Holiday…https://ericmroberts.com/blog/of-doubt-discouragement-and-despair/https://ericmroberts.com/blog/of-doubt-discouragement-and-despair/ Mon, 13 May 2013 12:00:00 +0000I have come to the non-revolutionary conclusion that life is hard. Furthermore, life has difficulty, disappointments and, oftentimes, despair. Undeniably, life also has fantastic high points and moments of unequivocal joy and satisfaction. Still, it seems that the disappointment and…https://ericmroberts.com/blog/urban-sketchers-salt-lake/https://ericmroberts.com/blog/urban-sketchers-salt-lake/ Mon, 06 May 2013 12:00:00 +0000There are great civic and religious structures in Salt Lake and the surrounding communities. I have wanted to capture as many as I can into my sketchbook. Each has a different story or a different character to reveal. Each of…https://ericmroberts.com/blog/urban-sketchers-washington-dc/https://ericmroberts.com/blog/urban-sketchers-washington-dc/ Fri, 03 May 2013 12:00:00 +0000Washington DC is one of my favorite places to visit. I have had the opportunity to visit with my service to the American Institute of Architects a number of times over the past few years. It is one of my…https://ericmroberts.com/blog/urban-sketchers-san-francisco/https://ericmroberts.com/blog/urban-sketchers-san-francisco/ Wed, 01 May 2013 12:00:00 +0000My wife and I took a trip with our good friends, Ryan and Susie Carson, to San Francisco in 2009. I brought my sketchbook along to hopefully capture some images of the city while I was in town. We did…https://ericmroberts.com/blog/urban-sketchers-salt-lake-residential/https://ericmroberts.com/blog/urban-sketchers-salt-lake-residential/ Sun, 28 Apr 2013 12:00:00 +0000I travel to Salt Lake for work quite a lot for my work. When I travel I often fill the time between meetings by sketching in a 3″ x 5″ moleskin sketchbook that I keep in my travel bag. Since…https://ericmroberts.com/blog/urban-sketchers-las-vegas/https://ericmroberts.com/blog/urban-sketchers-las-vegas/ Fri, 26 Apr 2013 12:00:00 +0000We have had a few sketch crawls in Las Vegas now with our Urban Sketchers group. It is fun to see parts of the community in a different way. Normally, we zoom around Las Vegas in cars without ever stopping…https://ericmroberts.com/blog/urban-sketchers-places-near-and-far/https://ericmroberts.com/blog/urban-sketchers-places-near-and-far/ Fri, 26 Apr 2013 12:00:00 +0000Sometimes opportunities to sketch just happen. Sometimes we plan to sketch and the opportunity never presents itself. Some of these sketches were happy surprises in a time or place that I had no intention of finding time to do anything.…https://ericmroberts.com/blog/urban-sketchers/https://ericmroberts.com/blog/urban-sketchers/ Fri, 26 Apr 2013 12:00:00 +0000I have had a number of great teachers and professors in my life. I have been quite lucky to be associated with passionate individuals who love to teach. I would like to talk about two of my favorite professors today;…https://ericmroberts.com/blog/the-importance-of-thanks/https://ericmroberts.com/blog/the-importance-of-thanks/ Wed, 27 Feb 2013 12:00:00 +0000The last time I posted here (it has been longer than it should have been) I spoke about the Importance of Compliments. I still think that compliments are under-utilized in the modern world and I further believe that our lives…https://ericmroberts.com/blog/the-majesty-of-calmness/https://ericmroberts.com/blog/the-majesty-of-calmness/ Mon, 13 Aug 2012 12:00:00 +0000From Self Control, Its Kingship and Majesty, 1905 By William George Jordan Calmness is the rarest quality in human life. It is the poise of a great nature, in harmony with itself and its ideals. It is the moral atmosphere…