Happy New Year of the Tiger 2022 !

 

Preparing for the Tiger year 2022

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Happy Holidays from the local dream Xmas tree house farm...

 

Wide angle view of the artist in his outdoor studio... FRAMED

 

DREAM PALMS

 Here you can see the painting of four unique palm trees with details of the leaves, the painting was created on the iPad on site in the city of Angels. This piece is part of a series of finely detailed digital paintings depicting the palm tree as integral to the unique California landscape.

I have always loved painting palm trees and trying to capture the feeling of the slender trunks and spindly fronds.

The palm tree has the scientific term of Arecaceae and is part of family of perennial flowering plants in the monocot order Arecales.

Palms are among the best known and most extensively cultivated plant families. In many historical cultures, palms were symbols or icons for such ideas as victory, peace and fertility.

DREAM PALMS <violetquartet>

Studio visit and opening shot of video clip

 

https://www.instagram.com/reel/CW884ZQBYD2/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

Happy Thanksgiving!

 

Autumn studio painting time

 

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Sunday tennis lessons in the cool November air

 

 "I think, for me, I just really want to have fun with every match that I play because tennis is a game.”

- Naomi Osaka.

 

THANKS TO THE VETERANS

 

Posting from the teaching world at Chico State Interior Architecture

 

Happy Halloween!

 

PUMPKIN PLANET! happy halloween!

 

Pioneers in Design IIDA event with Liz Ogbu speaking about design activism.

 Here are my hand drawn visual notes from the Pioneers in Design event last night for IIDA … ENJOY!  Trying to capture the energy of the wonderful design activism of Liz Ogbu from Studio O.  She is a doer, thinker, a spatial justice activist, an architect, a designer, a social innovator and a person who cares about the people and she is designing in the apocalypse.

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Reopen the outdoor studio after the rains

After the rains, opening up the outdoor studio to dry and looking at the landscape with a new fresh eye and a very fresh mind …

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#アート #美術 #びじゅつ #ランドスケープ #dreamy #clouds #aftertherains 

 

Rainy Pumpkin Planet expansion! Boo!

 

BOO! Pumpkin Planet is growing!

 

And yes, the rain has returned to our part of California...

 

The Drawing book is now available on Amazon, with more peeks inside here on this post...

 

The Drawing book is now available on Amazon!

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09H3F4CTD

 

Diagrams and more diagrams

 

An essential part of the teaching experience involves the exploration of diagrams and the use of diagrammatic thinking in the design process.  

Outdoor Studio updates

 

Work on the easel in the outdoor studio, updates and touch-ups

 

Update on my new book under construction

 

Birthday Cartoon about cowbells

 

Early weeks of teaching with a collection of drawings

 From the first weeks of teaching, a collection of drawing assignments and exercises for elementary explorations of line, color, shapes and pattern 

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Review of painted pieces for possible show in Spring 2022

 

Outdoor Studio viewing

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Open Studio for a good patron/friend visiting from New Orleans...

 

Dreaming of the ocean breeze and surf

painted scene on wood panel collage with log in prompt on digital screen 

 

I-5 travel and stop and Big Mac

 

New assigned role as a teacher at Chico State University

https://www.csuchico.edu/art/people/faculty/wittnebel-douglas.shtml

Traveling north on I-5 freeway to Chico

 

Looking for some options for framing the larger artwork

Here is a detail of two painted pieces with wood framing by Doug 

Here is a recently completed piece. 

 

Teaching at Chico State

 

IIDA design in motion event

Thanks for the invite to the committee for the East Bay chapter of IIDA Northern California, I had the pleasure to do a live painting on site, show some of my recent gouache painting work, and finally see some faces that I have not seen in more than a year or so, such a terrific and truly fun event!