Oliver Ranch art hike Martin Puryear sculpture

Oliver Ranch art hike

Oliver Ranch hike ... Roger Berry sculpture “DARWIN”

Forest in Tahoe

Pine cone study at the lake.

Pine Cone, Lake Tahoe, California

Forest view in Lake Tahoe, Granlibakken

Final illustration completed view

Color application illustration

Adding background tone test

Prep drawings for illustration

Prep drawings for major illustration ...

Prep study sketch for illustration ...

Central Park, looking west to the twin residential towers

View from Central Park looking East from around Umpire Rock (Rat Rock)

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View of Central Park from Midtown Hilton Hotel

Summer, swimming, pools, and watermelon, fireworks...

Beach balls and swimming times 

Watermelon on the 4th of July 

Pioneers in Design 2018 IIDA Northern California

Four selections for illustrations of Neocon 2018 features

Fog and drizzle and the Wrigley Building

FOG

The fog comes

on little cat feet.

It sits looking

over harbor and city

on silent haunches

and then moves on.

"Fog" is a poem by Carl Sandburg. It first appeared in Sandburg's first mainstream collection of poems, Chicago Poems, published in 1916.

Sandburg has described the genesis of the poem. At a time when he was carrying a book of Japanese Haiku, he went to interview a juvenile court judge, and he had cut through Grant Park and saw the fog over Chicago harbor. He had certainly seen many fogs before, but this time he had to wait forty minutes for the judge, and he only had a piece of newsprint handy, so he decided to create an "American Haiku”

... and ...

From my hotel window I painted and marveled at the fog and drizzle over the Chicago River and above the magnificent Wrigley building. 

Chicago in the wet summer fog.