Final illustration completed view

Color application illustration

Prep drawings for illustration

Prep drawings for major illustration ...

Prep study sketch for illustration ...

View of Central Park from Midtown Hilton Hotel

Back in Beijing for the week for work time

Back in the big city of Beijing for meetings with financial groups, and some viewings of the new construction in the CBD ... CITIC Tower next to the CCTV tower...

Painted view of port in Tortola, Frenchmans Cay

Topical Buildings

Revisiting a theme and book from 5 years ago, a set of three topical buildings setting by the sea...

Sunny days at Frank Ogawa Plaza, and the Block by Block installation is a success!!!

A corner of the wall drawing at Gensler Oakland

Another view of the inside corner from the drawing wall at Gensler Oakland, hand-drawn by the talented staff in moments of true inspiration...

The drawing wall in the new Oakland office...

Oakland and building memories...

My article on memories and buildings in Oakland, part one...

http://www.gensleron.com/cities/2015/2/17/evolving-memories-within-oakland.html

Oakland Urban Field Notes

Oakland Urban Field Notes, a photo by douglaswittnebel on Flickr.

Color draft folded version of the four beautiful buildings in downtown Oakland, hand-drawn illustrations

Happy Holidays!

Happy Holidays!, a photo by douglaswittnebel on Flickr.

Seasons greetings from the Building Energy modeling fashion show event....

Diamonds among pearls in the rough

Diamonds among pearls in the rough, a photo by douglaswittnebel on Flickr.

A view of two shop buildings, Boss and Tods, on Omotesando dori...a set of diamonds among pearls in the rough...

3d printing illustration

3dprinting, a photo by douglaswittnebel on Flickr.

The topic of 3d printing is alive in the media these days, and here is an illustration to accompany an article in EDC magazine.

Ronald Reagan, gate 33

Monument detail

"... It is sometimes called the City of Magnificent Distances, but it might with greater propriety be termed the City of Magnificent Intentions."

-- American Notes, Charles Dickens

Full painted image view from gate 33

Capitol detail

Last Sunday return times from D.C. at Ronald Reagan airport, looking back from gate 33, over the Potomac River towards the Capitol building and the Washington monument.  A unique viewpoint for me, and a perfect opportunity to try the newer layers on adobe ideas after finally successfully merging from the old versions...

and now photo of the hand/finger/stylus/ipad/interface...

a closer still image view of the stylus interface on the digital iPad using the adobe ideas application,,,

and now for something a little bit different...

I have been going back to an earlier painting/drawing app, adobe ideas, and have been experimenting with the interesting qualities of line and tone and color that the app offers.  This painting is a view looking upwards at a wall of building shapes and signs, possibly will be part of a graphic novel format...

one last view of Chicago from the corner of Madison and Michigan...

...this sketch painting was created with the Brushes app on the iPad, sitting on a bench looking norht and west across Michigan Avenue...