Saturday, November 30, 2013

Friday, November 29, 2013

My Thanksgiving Menu

My Thanksgiving Menu by douglaswittnebel
My Thanksgiving Menu, a photo by douglaswittnebel on Flickr.

An illustrative chalk on blackboard menu art piece in a photograph by Taka Sakamoto...

Friday, November 22, 2013

Visions and introspections and palpable spaces...

Just a simple text posting, inspirational writing from a fellow artist, Christopher Benson.

"...What inspired me at the time was how antithetical to illustration Diebenkorn’s pictures were. His innovation of blending abstraction and figuration in the most mundane domestic subjects is so well known, and now so clichéd as a stylistic device, that it’s easy to overlook how dramatically that sort of approach changed the way we look at and experience paintings. 
This was a revolution that the Impressionists had started a century earlier, but Diebenkorn’s later efinement of many of their same principles — by then also affected by the pure expressive abstraction of New York school painters like deKooning — is an outstanding realization of the potential of this  kind of art. His images, taken from clearly regional Californian places, transcend the constraints of the local (and any specific emotions he might have felt about his own locale) and record a vision both introspective and universal.
His earnestly un-romanticized, yet aesthetically beautiful surfaces and compositions describe one narrow world with great specificity while maintaining a remoteness and neutrality onto which anybody anywhere might plausibly project their own experience. Perhaps that was not his intention, but it is nonetheless what he accomplished in his figurative work..."




...earlier landscape view painting layered sereis, set into moss garden mid springtime...

Thursday, November 21, 2013

Close up of the Thanks recipes and illustrations

...these views show a detail of the illustrations and a screen shot of the Ipad drawing process...
 
Thanks, recipes and illustrations from our client appreciation party at the Gensler San Ramon office, this version printed on two sides with ten recipes and ten hand-drawn illustrations...
 
 
 

Tuesday, November 19, 2013

Thanks, recipes and illustrations as a take-away item...

Thanks, recipes and illustrations from our client appreciation party at the Gensler San Ramon office, this version printed on two sides with ten recipes and ten hand-drawn illustrations...

Friday, November 8, 2013

aoyama riviera club tokyo

A view from the hotel looking down on the Riviera Club building and surrounds, and a tilt-shift filter application for cool...

Via Flickr:
A view from the hotel looking down on the Riviera Club building and surrounds, and a tilt shift filter application

Monday, November 4, 2013

Baisoin temple

Baisoin temple by douglaswittnebel
Baisoin temple, a photo by douglaswittnebel on Flickr.
A lesser known project by Kengo Kuma, the Baiso-in temple, viewed from the 13 th floor of Tokyu stay hotel in Aoyama, Tokyo...