Moscone looking north to St. Patricks...

A painterly view of the Moscone open space in San Francisco, looking north towards St. Patricks, Four Seasons tower, and the Daniel Liebeskind museum (Willis Polk wonder)   This was done using adobe ideas app on the iPad...on a sunny Saturday on a break between meetings for the Gensler Principals...

after orisom...

Mission San Jose was founded on June 11, 1797 by Father Fermin Francisco de Lasuen on a site which was part of a natural highway by way of the Livermore Valley to the San Joaquin Valley. It is the fourteenth of the 21 Spanish Missions in Alta California. The site chosen for the only mission on the east side of San Francisco Bay had been inhabited for countless generations by the Ohlone Indians. Their village at this site was known as Orisom...or Oroysom...

adding color to the courtyard

The view of the courtyard of the Mission Santa Barbara takes on a new look and atmosphere with the addition of color..."The hard part is how to plan a picture so as to give to others what has happened to you. To render in paint an experience, to suggest the sense of light and color, of air and space. Maxfield Parrish "

Mission Santa Barbara

The Santa Barbara Mission was founded in 1786, and the main church building completed in 1820. The 1925 earthquake destroyed the mission buildings and the complex was rebuilt and finally restored in 1953...

California Missions

My mission in life is to do a drawing of each Mission in California...