Inside and outside of my creative life, I always find those valuable moments of time to draw and sketch the some of events, spaces and environments on my journeys... Sometimes I think about Robert Byron touring through regions of the Middle East in search of unique towers and monuments, and wonder about Bruce Chatwin venturing through the southern tip of South America and falling in love with Patagonia...Douglas Wittnebel...
Tuesday, December 27, 2016
Friday, December 23, 2016
Saturday, December 17, 2016
Tuesday, December 13, 2016
Drawing on the glass wall, back painted glass in the Scarlet meeting room at Gensler Oakland
Sunday, November 20, 2016
Saturday, November 12, 2016
Sunday, November 6, 2016
A view from the hotel in Harbin
A view over the Songhua river and out to the site of the new Harbin Opera house by MAD Architects...
Tuesday, October 25, 2016
Saturday, October 8, 2016
Saturday, October 1, 2016
Monday, September 26, 2016
DC view
Friday, September 9, 2016
Tuesday, September 6, 2016
Sunday, September 4, 2016
Monday, August 22, 2016
Tuesday, August 16, 2016
Sunday, August 7, 2016
Saturday, August 6, 2016
Monday, July 25, 2016
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...
Labels:
department store,
doug,
douglas,
Ginza,
green wall,
illustration,
Japan,
roof garden,
rooftop,
section-perspective,
Tokyo,
Tokyu Plaza,
wittnebel
Friday, July 22, 2016
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...
Saturday, July 9, 2016
Sunday, July 3, 2016
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...
Labels:
Asahi beer,
cool,
digital,
doug douglas wittnebel,
Ginza,
illustration,
iPad,
menu,
Midori Sushi restaurant,
painting,
pencil,
that
Saturday, July 2, 2016
Tuesday, June 28, 2016
Saturday, June 18, 2016
Monday, June 13, 2016
Member Profile at SPUR Urbanist Magazine
My guest appearance in the URBANIST magazine from SPUR is right here...
column and capital color study at Forbidden City, Beijing, China
...color study of the wonderful polychromatic columns and capitals in the Forbidden City, Beijing...
Labels:
Beijing,
capital,
China,
colors,
column,
digital,
doug,
douglas,
drawing,
Forbidden City,
illustration,
iPad,
painting,
polychrome,
sketches_pro app,
study,
wittnebel,
wood
Location:
Dongcheng, Beijing, China
Tuesday, June 7, 2016
Grand Palace roof shapes and colors study
Labels:
Beijing,
China,
courtyard,
digital,
doug,
douglas,
drawing,
Forbidden City,
grand palace,
illustration,
iPad,
palace,
roofs,
temple,
tile,
wittnebel
Location:
Dongcheng, Beijing, China
Thursday, June 2, 2016
Sunday, May 29, 2016
Forbidden City, Beijing
Labels:
architecture,
Beijing,
century,
China,
courtyards,
digital,
doug,
douglas,
Forbidden City,
gates,
heavenly,
landscape painting,
Palace Museum,
wittnebel
Location:
Dongcheng, Beijing, China
Monday, May 16, 2016
Monday, May 9, 2016
Thursday, May 5, 2016
Sunday, May 1, 2016
Solar Impulse arrives from Hawaii...
Hanging out at birthday party for one of my daughters friends held outdoors at the Presidio campground, an amazing sight of the arrival of the Solar Impulse...
...a solar powered aircraft with a 72 meter wingspan and maximum speed of 28 mph...
...like a slow moving pterodactyl circumnavigating the world...
Labels:
aircraft,
circumnavigate,
digital,
doug,
Douglas iPad,
drawing,
pilot,
Presidio,
san francisco,
sky,
Solar Impulse,
solar power,
wittnebel
Location:
Presidio, San Francisco, CA, USA
Sunday, April 24, 2016
Saturday, April 23, 2016
Tuesday, April 19, 2016
Tuesday, April 5, 2016
Monday, March 28, 2016
Wednesday, March 16, 2016
Tuesday, March 15, 2016
Ballet practice, pi day, circumference and circle figure in the round
Labels:
ballet,
circle,
circumference,
digital,
doug douglas wittnebel,
drawing,
imagination,
iPad,
painting,
Pi Day,
Pleasant Hill,
session,
sketch,
Studio A
Location:
Pleasant Hill, CA, USA
Monday, March 14, 2016
On a wet rainy Saturday afternoon, creative energy can be directed into a color painting exercises for plates at Color Me Mine...
You can select your colors from a numbered spectrum of choices, and then apply to your ceramic piece with brushes and detail pin drops...
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A selection of ink sketches done at the Ryoanji garden in Kyoto, a magical space full of mystery and a wonderful confluence of the simpl...
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#Domo-kun #どーもくん sighted on the side of the bus from Shibuya station #NHK mascot found dressed up in costume...
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Was fascinated and intrigued by the scale of the circular plans of Connaught Place, also known as CP Delhi, and also as Rajiv Chowk, and thi...