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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Sit back and relax, take off your shoes, and wonder about life...

Mendocino Baptist Church ... Corners of the Mouth

...William Kelly had this church built for his wife, Eliza Lee Owen, in 1894.  The Kelley family had already started a small church which became the Presbyterian church in 1868.  Eliza was Baptist and wanted a church of her own faith where she could play the organ,  “This is my Baptist Church in Mendocino, one my husband built with good faith.  Eventually the Baptist church was reopened as a gift shop called Personal Expressions.  Corners of the Mouth had opened in 1975 just down the street in the Kelliowen building.  In 1976 the businesses switched places and Corners has filled the church ever since.

While flying to New York at 32,000 feet altitude, I draw a Landscape of Objects...

I love to draw while flying, I often spend that unique space and time event in explorations of new ideas and concepts...

reimagining the Bay Area, test one link

Here is a test link to my new blog posting for Gensler 50on...

http://www.gensleron.com/fifty-on/2015/10/30/reimagining-the-san-francisco-bay-area.html

http://www.gensleron.com/fifty-on/2015/10/30/reimagining-the-san-francisco-bay-area.html

Cityscape 9

Another version of the cityscape series, a set of paintings that explore the landscape of cities and urban environments ...

Drawing on the wall at Gensler Oakland

Some additional drawings of buildings and landscapes have been added by the staff and myself to the temporary drawing wall in the Gensler Oakland office. 

The drawing wall in the new Oakland office...

A look back at the video about Oakland and the ideas of Live, Thrive, Love in the City

http://vimeo.com/douglaswittnebel/work-live-love-thrive-in-the-city-of-oakland-2014

 

 

http://vimeo.com/douglaswittnebel/work-live-love-thrive-in-the-city-of-oakland-2014

post it note sketches unbuilt and a quote from John Singer Sargeant

you can draw and sketch on many surfaces, and sometimes the closest thing within reach will do when you are ready to sketch an idea before it flits away...another sampling of small sketches done on post it notes with red pen... unbuilt...

 

"You can't do sketches enough.  Sketch everything and keep your curiousity fresh." 

 

John Singer Sargeant

 

 

A view into the future of Oakland, a speculation...Work Live, Love and Thrive in the City

 

 

The presentation video for the Work in the City project has now been submitted.  One of the images featured in the video is an illustration of the city of Oakland in a future speculative view...shown here is the lower left corner of the illustration.

 

"Speculation, like nature, abhors a vacuum"  Spinoza