Lupines blooming in the meadow and the North Grove campground at Big Trees State Park California

 

Ukraine thoughts

 

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

 

Book progress update. CCTV building and meeting delights

 

Here I have a process update for new book on drawings and paintings from China

Layouts and narratives have begun for my next little #book, which will include illustrated items like a very great Wall, #Harbin, simmering pork #intestines, #eggplant, a #city that was considered forbidden, delicious dumplings, a square of #Tiananmen, eggplant, #palaces and much much more… #dougwittnebel 
#architecture #art #beijing #china #中国 #北京

 

Ten Drawings from Japan on Amazon Kindle

 I am preparing my next book to come out on Amazon Kindle

Lovers Point, Pacific Grove, California, gouache painting

A peek at the gouache paint details for #LoversPoint in #PacificGrove #montereybay #gouachepainting #artistsoninstagram #dougwittnebel #architectsoninstagram #painterly #landscapepainting #waterscape   

 

Big Sur Nepenthe visit

 

A visit to one of my favorite places Nepenthe where the views are spectacular and the setting unique with a history that includes Henry Miller, Hemingway, Man Ray, Rita Haworth and others #nepenthe #bigsur #pacificcoasthighway #pacificcoast #reels

Map of the Knew World, a conjecture and imagined place of discovery and challenge

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This piece was created as part of a set of drawing exercises held by a good friend, Ayse Birsel, and her design venture called “Design the Life You Love” 

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Detail image of the floating landscape canvas in the outdoor studio

 

a collection of sketchbooks

I posted this image on INSTAGRAM and wrote about the memories that are associated with each drawing and sketch from the past 3 or 4 decades of drawing...

 

Wear your mask on the 4th of July weekend!

Wear a mask people!

Future workplace design studies

Drawing of the rooftop for the Future Workplace Studies

Back to the workplace drawing #wfh #corona virus

Panorama Pandemic film

Now it is the beginning of May, and it is clear that we are all in this together and we have learned so much about ourselves, our families, our workplaces, our habits and our uncertainties.

When I think about our intensely personal and our newly developed public journeys, I see a different sense of creative energy flowing in many new ways.

We really don’t know what is ahead on these trips we will be taking, but I know that the last ten weeks or so have taught me a lot about what it means to be alive and what it means to be truly challenged by the world we live within.

So here is a short film with some illustrations and thoughts about what has happened in the last ten weeks ... family times, WFH, SIP, diagrams, sharing, reading, painting, cooking, feelings, hiking, mask-making, exploring new virtual worlds and seeing the real neighborhoods …

https://vimeo.com/416385134

View with a room

View with a Room #mountdiablo #bayareadrawingroom looking out and checking the view late afternoon on a warm spring day

“Home is where one starts from” T. S. Eliot

Home is a shelter from storms - all sorts of storms. William J. Bennett 

Home is where one starts from   T. S. Elio

Remote teaching using ZOOM and whiteboard

Preparation for a teaching session next week for a group of 4th graders #bayareadrawingroom #wfh @bayareadrawingroom lets see if he can use a stylus and a marker at the same time?

Redwood Day school drawing lessons at Gensler Oakland

Students from fifth grade class at Redwood Day school in Oakland joined the design studio of Gensler Oakland for a series of design exercises including my Tree House drawing lesson.  

Each student begins with a sheet of paper and begins to draw their dream treehouse.  

The I begin to do a drawing of a large tree and branches on the writing wall in the Scarlet meeting room. 

Then each student is asked to find a spot on the branches of the three and redraw their dream treehouse connected to the branches and eventually connected to other treehouses.

Treehouse drawing lesson from Apple store in Walnut Creek