Phuket, Thavorn Garden Landscape sculpture

 

mini sketchbook visit

Sketch sights in the gardens of Thavorn Resort in Phuket

Passing of Richard Serra the artist

 Richard Serra has passed away and I have retrieved one of my site walk watercolors from his piece installed at the Oliver ranch.  Art slows the mind. 

A look back at a watercolor sketch from Vietnam...

 

Outdoor Studio assemblage project

 

A composite view of the illustrations from Mexico City voyage

The colors and fantasies of the Alebrijes in Mexico City

Alebrijes are the brightly colored Mexican sculptures of fantastical creatures. The first alebrijes were created by an artist, Pedro Linares. Back in the 1930s, Linares was ill with a high fever and while he was in bed, unconscious, he dreamt of a strange place resembling a magic forest. There, he saw trees, animals, rocks, clouds that suddenly turned into strange  kinds of animals.  

https://www.mexican-folk-art-guide.com/alebrijes.html#.W90V9RpuifA

Here is my sketch in color of one of the Alebrijes in view during the Day of the Dead festival ...

An extended gaze and sketch of the Calder at the National Gallery East Wing

Now over to the Washington DC space...

At the National Gallery of Art East Wing, a wonderful show of works by Rachel Whiteread, including this cast piece of negative space under a stair...

My ink sketch from the rainy Sunday morning...

Stepping out and down the stair sculpture of Bruce Nauman at Oliver Ranch...

For the IIDA Northern California event in September, our group had the opportunity to do a hiking tour of the Oliver Ranch close to Geyserville, California.

Among the art pieces, the final one was Bruce Naumann concrete staircase sculpture at Oliver Ranch, described as his response to the unique physical contours of the land at the Oliver ranch in Geyserville, California. 

All of the horizontal the treads are exactly the same size, 30 inches square, and then every riser is of a different height with the total length covering a 1/4 of a mile. The smallest rise is 3/8 of an inch; the largest rise is a vertical 17 inches. It is a treat to feel your legs stretch and strain as you descend, and I cannot even imagine the ascent.  

As you descend you must pay attention to your steps and your feet or you may trip and fall because of the steep changes in riser height. 

Oliver Ranch art hike

Oliver Ranch hike ... Roger Berry sculpture “DARWIN”

The flip side of HOPE at 7th and 53rd in New York City

Fuente de la Diana Cazadora in Mexico City

The Huntress Diana Fountain (Fuente de la Diana Cazadora) is a monumental fountain of Diana located in the roundabout at Paseo de la Refirma and Río Misisipí and Sevilla streets, on the border of the Colonia Cuauhtémoc and Colonia Juarez neighborhoods of Mexico City.

Here is my drawing of the scene from the 3rd floor lobby of the St. Regis Hotel...

Sunday at the DeYoung for viewing David Hockney and outdoor hide and seek fun...

 

 

A very cool and calm Sunday at the De Young museum, the views inside of the amazing colors and extra dimensions of David Hockney, and then the crisply edged views outside in the irregular sculpture garden and too soon to be closed cafe...perfect for running around and playing hide and seek...

Totem in Stanley Park, Vancouver, BC

Totem in Stanley Park , a photo by douglaswittnebel on Flickr.

An extraordinary day in the extraordinary Stanley Park , Vancouver, BC, and a view sketch of upper portion of totem pole in the park.

The big "G" in a collection of No. 2 pencils...

A collection of No. 2 pencils have gathered together to form a large Gensler "G", part of a group show in our design office...