Chalk and Black board project

 

Water spouting turtles, lions and griffons...

Dragon turtles, lions, griffons and other marble creatures spout water into the pool at the Marriott...

and then don't forget the map...

 

 

part of the notebook version from the Northwest road trip, a handdrawn and colored map showing a portion of the ferry route from Horseshoe Bay to Nanaimo on the island...maps are such a wonderful way of remembering where you have been and where you may want to go...

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...

Golden Gate Bridge 75th anniversary, FRISCO magazine

The anniversary of the Golden Gate bridge is coming up in May of this year, and a celebration issue of FRISCO magazine has full coverage of the event.   FRISCO magazine has been publishing since November 2011, and each issue is composed and drawn/painted in adobe ideas on the iPad...

Gensler Super Meeting Chicago 2012

Out and over to Chicago, Oakbrook area, for a Super Meeting with over 200 folks from the Gensler group...days and nights of meetings and discussions about the how, when, where, who and why of design in the world of today...these drawings try to capture the essence of some of those meetings...

greenhouse painting

greenhouse painting, a photo by douglaswittnebel on Flickr.

On the long flight back from Chennai, India to San Francisco, I had the luxury of time to relax and dream and paint this version of a green house and landscape, perhaps an unconscious yearning to return back to California and beautiful scenes and family...

painted on ipad with procreate app and stylus brush

The map of India, places that I visited in the week of the journey...

First stop was New Delhi, then a quick flight to Mumbai, a jump on Indigo airlines (cool) down to Chennai (formerly Madras) and finally 30 minute flight to Bangalore for the last leg of research, before jetting to Dubai and back to California...