watermelon time

some kind of blue lake Tahoe

Forest fir the trees, a long weekend in Lake Tahoe at Tahoe City,,,

Lazy hazy not crazy skies of Beijing, China, view from hotel room

... View from hotel room ...

Another voyage over to the Asian world, dropping into Beijing...

Swimming pools in the summer time

Summertime watermelon delight

Tokyu Plaza roof garden, Ginza, Tokyo

It was a very hot summer day, the 4th of July, and the roof garden of the Tokyu Plaza department store building was a surprise to see, and I tried to imagine the scenes behind those tiered green walls...

A painted view of the sandy stretches of Ohki beach in Kochi on the south west end of the island of Shikoku...

Hundreds if not thousands of small red crabs live in the moist territory off of the beach and above the highway 321, skittering and scampering in flight to hide under the rocks and between the cracks in the ground... this view is from the dining room area of the Kaiyu Inn...

Omotesando famous brands paired with famous architects results in this array on display

Sushi meal in Ginza illustration view

I drew the scene with pencil on the back off the daily menu, then I took a photograph of the drawing on the table, opened in drawing/painting app, and painted the image for final display below...

Details from Meiji Shrine painting... Summer 2016

Meiji Shrine courtyard view

Visiting Tokyo again in 2016... Meiji shrine

...one of my favorite places to see in Tokyo...

It's about curry and more curry

...It may be the next cookbook by Ayesha Curry, with 30 new curry based recipes...

Member Profile at SPUR Urbanist Magazine

My guest appearance in the URBANIST magazine from SPUR is right here...

http://www.spur.org/publications/urbanist-article/2016-05-21/member-profile-doug-wittnebel

 http://www.spur.org/publications/urbanist-article/2016-05-21/member-profile-doug-wittnebel

column and capital color study at Forbidden City, Beijing, China

...color study of the wonderful polychromatic columns and capitals in the Forbidden City, Beijing...

Grand Palace roof shapes and colors study

  ...paint study for the roof and tile colors in the Forbidden City, Grand Palace, Beijing, China...

CCTV and Beijing views

The CCTV building looms like a giant monster in the city of Beijing...

Forbidden City, Beijing

...looking towards the gate of Heavenly Purity in the Forbidden City, Beijing...