Hard at work on the process of masking and painting the wood panel pieces...

Brett and Seth at work on the city grid floor panels above...

Trademark Gensler red paint for the edges of the wood panels below...

Design Drawings for the Our City Oakland event installation by Gensler Oakland

OUR CITY OAKLAND EVENT

the city skyline scene above

 the planned assembly installation view below

Block by Block sample wood blocks

Preparing for the wood block pieces to be used as part of the Our City event in Oakland

Our City Oakland event design challenge

Here is the set of first sketches for our Gensler team idea for the Our City Oakland event challenge. 

Now its time to build it, make it, construct it and paint it!

Our City and the City of Oakland are partnering to produce the first Our City: Oakland Fair. The Fair is inviting Oaklanders to imagine, build, and celebrate the future of their community.

This first Fair is focused on the theme of play. From February 4-6 February 2016, Frank Ogawa Plaza will come alive with new public design installations and performances that encourage Oakland kids, families, residents, and visitors of all ages to play in new ways.

http://ourcity.is/oakland/

Rains, Vineyards, Harvest Inn and a painted view

...Painted view from the Harvest Inn, verdant vineyards dripping wet from the long awaited and well overdue rains in Northern California...

Detail of line-work and scratch strokes on color fields

Saturday morning ballet class sketching time

Studio A in Pleasant Hill, CA, ballet classes and time for drawing young ballerinas...

Year of the Monkey, 2016