Jury Duty sketches on video clip

 

Two sketchbooks with open pages for viewing the insides!

 

Sketchbook notes for woodturning class

 

Sketchnotes from woodturning class

 

Framework Concept diagram for new website, eight categories within the circle

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

Prep drawings for illustration

Whiteboard drawings and studies of space layouts

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...

Celebrate Earth Day with my daughter

 Her drawings and collages are an amazing collection of ideas and thoughts about taking care of our very special planet Earth...

Studio A Saturday morning ballet practice sketches

Drawings from the past..

Doodling time on Saturday morning

A great way to finish breakfast with doodling placemats, challenge to draw an elf, a chameleon and an ostrich...

...a Post about the illustrations and the book by Art Gensler

...a page from the digital file drawings from the process of book illustrations...

Here is a set of the developed color versions for the illustrations created for the chapter headings and section headers of the newly released book by Art Gensler. [ Art's Principles ]

Spinbot, Maker culture, Design and Illustrations...

I will plan to do a short series on Maker culture, including a link to an article in GenslerOn and some illustrations from events and speculations.

http://www.gensleron.com/lifestyle/2014/11/13/maker-culture-brings-the-power-of-design-to-life.html

And here is a drawing/sketch of one of the Spinbot drawing kits, a perfect dad and daughter project!

http://www.gensleron.com/lifestyle/2014/11/13/maker-culture-brings-the-power-of-design-to-life

Bank of Oakland Building on Broadway

 

This building sketch/painting of the former Bank of California building.  this was featured in the article from Urbanist magazine, published by SPUR.

http://www.spur.org/publications/article/2014-03-10/urban-field-notes-new-drawings-old-buildings 

At the corner of 12th Street and Broadway stands the original headquarters for the Bank of Oakland, a unique combination of lower masonry block muscle and a taller decorative tower. The main building went up in 1907, and the tower portion was added later, pushing up to the height of 225 feet (18 stories). Now the bank occupies the building with other tenants and histories. A series of Corinthian columns and pilasters support and frame the top levels of setback windows. The top-level spaces must have terrific views of the adjacent Tribune building. Perhaps the two towers wink at each other in the early morning hours.



Urbanist magazine article updated

 

http://www.spur.org/publications/article/2014-03-10/urban-field-notes-new-drawings-old-buildings

 

Urbanist magazine article, a photo by douglaswittnebel on Flickr.

 

Oakland urban field notes

Oakland urban field notes, a photo by douglaswittnebel on Flickr.

Mock up of folded field notes of four Oakland historical buildings, illustrated...

Street scene with windmill in Mendocino

...almost every house and building had a windmill, used to provide the power to pump water up into the redwood tank water towers for supply and pressure.  Some of the windmills are still standing relatively intact, sentinels and distinct markers in the town silhouette along with the water towers.  Another adobe ideas piece on the traveling ipad...

A view of Seattle

A quick visit to Seattle for design directors meetings at the Gensler Seattle office.  A painted view of the areas west and north of the downtown area, a mixture of the industry and signas and metal work and masonry...adobe ideas on ipad...