Long tail boat prow and flowers

 

Arkansas River rafting sketch

 

playing and exploring along and within the refreshingly freezing cold waters of Beaver Creek #calaverasbigtrees #watercolor

...playing and exploring along and within the refreshingly freezing cold waters of Beaver Creek #calaverasbigtrees #watercolor over ink sketch #dougwittnebel...

View looking south on the Chicago River. Dark red steel Drawbridges and dark green waters

Chicago River and bridges Quick sketch from Kimball building stage 1

Fog and drizzle and the Wrigley Building

FOG

The fog comes

on little cat feet.

It sits looking

over harbor and city

on silent haunches

and then moves on.

"Fog" is a poem by Carl Sandburg. It first appeared in Sandburg's first mainstream collection of poems, Chicago Poems, published in 1916.

Sandburg has described the genesis of the poem. At a time when he was carrying a book of Japanese Haiku, he went to interview a juvenile court judge, and he had cut through Grant Park and saw the fog over Chicago harbor. He had certainly seen many fogs before, but this time he had to wait forty minutes for the judge, and he only had a piece of newsprint handy, so he decided to create an "American Haiku”

... and ...

From my hotel window I painted and marveled at the fog and drizzle over the Chicago River and above the magnificent Wrigley building. 

Chicago in a wet June mood

Chicago sketch Looking down on the new Apple store and Michigan Avenue Dusable Bridge and Chicago River

A view from the hotel in Harbin

A view over the Songhua river and out to the site of the new Harbin Opera house by MAD Architects...

Boston banner illustration installation

...and now I have received a photo from Jeanne Nutt in our Gensler Boston office, where we can see the installation of the Boston illustration.  Super! 

 

View of Tokyo sky tree from Asakusa

View of Tokyo sky tree from Asakusa, a photo by douglaswittnebel on Flickr.

A painted view from the top floor of the tourist center in Asakusa...