Menil museum sketch postcard

Merry Christmas greeting card in a digital city

Happy Holiday greetings from a very very green building!

Making candies from paper and color pencils and markers

holiday greeting composition from Piet Mondrian

Taking the long view...

Thanksgiving menu time

Zocalo urban space sketch study

Sketch study of the main urban square, Zocalo, in Mexico City 

Another peek at the wonderful colorful strangeness of the Alebrijes creatures in Mexico City

Looking north from Torre Diana 21st floor...

A composite view of the illustrations from Mexico City voyage

The colors and fantasies of the Alebrijes in Mexico City

Alebrijes are the brightly colored Mexican sculptures of fantastical creatures. The first alebrijes were created by an artist, Pedro Linares. Back in the 1930s, Linares was ill with a high fever and while he was in bed, unconscious, he dreamt of a strange place resembling a magic forest. There, he saw trees, animals, rocks, clouds that suddenly turned into strange  kinds of animals.  

https://www.mexican-folk-art-guide.com/alebrijes.html#.W90V9RpuifA

Here is my sketch in color of one of the Alebrijes in view during the Day of the Dead festival ...

Mexico City view

Painted view looking to the south west from the 21st floor of the Torre Diana building, where the AT&T Foundry is located.

The pointed top building is by LBR + A, the tallest in Mexico City.  It sits triangular in plan and features two perpendicular concrete elevations and one glass facade of the hypotenuse of the triangle.  https://www.archdaily.com/office/lbr-a

The BBVA building in the middle features a distinctive fuschia and bright yellow exterior spiral staircase element, and designed by Ricardo Legoretta. 

Gensler meeting in Scottsdale Arizona, DRAFT view

A look at a Portrait of a Gentleman by Rembrandt van Rijn

I sat for a bit of time and sketched the view of this painting, one of my favorites. 

An extended gaze and sketch of the Calder at the National Gallery East Wing

Now over to the Washington DC space...

At the National Gallery of Art East Wing, a wonderful show of works by Rachel Whiteread, including this cast piece of negative space under a stair...

My ink sketch from the rainy Sunday morning...

17th hole green Sketch of Silverado Golf course Safeway Open, Napa Valley

Sketch of Silverado Golf course at 17th hole green of the Safeway Open, Napa Valley California 

Stepping out and down the stair sculpture of Bruce Nauman at Oliver Ranch...

For the IIDA Northern California event in September, our group had the opportunity to do a hiking tour of the Oliver Ranch close to Geyserville, California.

Among the art pieces, the final one was Bruce Naumann concrete staircase sculpture at Oliver Ranch, described as his response to the unique physical contours of the land at the Oliver ranch in Geyserville, California. 

All of the horizontal the treads are exactly the same size, 30 inches square, and then every riser is of a different height with the total length covering a 1/4 of a mile. The smallest rise is 3/8 of an inch; the largest rise is a vertical 17 inches. It is a treat to feel your legs stretch and strain as you descend, and I cannot even imagine the ascent.  

As you descend you must pay attention to your steps and your feet or you may trip and fall because of the steep changes in riser height. 

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