Sightseeing and Sketching trip in February 2026 being planned now. (see link below)

https://www.tourhero.com/en/epic-adventures/thailand/sketching-the-sights-and-scenes-in-thailand-with-douglas-192510

 

Two of my favorite sketchbooks from Sketches and Travel

 

Kids draw Architecture program at SF Waldorf School West Portal

 This Saturday, I was teaching a group of eager kids about drawing architecture, along with two of my architect friends, "Sketch + Tour: Kids Draw Architecture" program on Saturday, July 23 from 10:00 AM to 2:00 PM. Bring your creativity and your curiosity and come sketch with the architects! Courtesy of Museum of Craft + Design 

Sketching perspectives in class at Chico State

 

The Drawing book is now available on Amazon, with more peeks inside here on this post...

 

Drawing is Seeing and Believing event with One Workplace

 

• What is sketching?  How does sketching help the way we see the world? 
• Examples of sketching and drawing from Doug's treasure chest of drawings and sketches
• Analog sketching, testing the hand and the eye and the mind
• Exercise*Room with a View, what is the view of your world from your seat position?  What do you see inside the room?  What do you see outside through the window?
• Doug to show examples of how to approach the exercise.
• Take a look at some results, sharing images
• Wrap up and Q and A
  
• Share website links and suggestions for further sketching studies

            *Wednesday, November 18th, ZOOM connection 

Creative Drawing Exercise Workshop "BLURRED LINES" led by Doug Wittnebel for National Furniture

 

Redwood Day school drawing lessons at Gensler Oakland

Students from fifth grade class at Redwood Day school in Oakland joined the design studio of Gensler Oakland for a series of design exercises including my Tree House drawing lesson.  

Each student begins with a sheet of paper and begins to draw their dream treehouse.  

The I begin to do a drawing of a large tree and branches on the writing wall in the Scarlet meeting room. 

Then each student is asked to find a spot on the branches of the three and redraw their dream treehouse connected to the branches and eventually connected to other treehouses.

Treehouse drawing lesson from Apple store in Walnut Creek 

Drawing on a Sunday afternoon, while the Super Bowl happens on the big TV screen...

The Drawing Room event at Herman Miller in San Francisco

The Drawing Room held a second event on Tuesday evening ...

“From the Inside looking Out”

The treasures and energy of the city of San Francisco are right outside your window...

Let’s take the time to look out, to see and to draw...

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...

Dad and Daughter drawing times

We will probably end up drawing the world together on our future journeys around the world...She has an amber eye for detail and a knack for keen observation, and a responsive hand eye connection...

Stump Beach, Salt Point State Park, Northern California

ink brush and ink pen on sketchbook...a beautiful sandy cove with kelp plants, small caves, fallen trees, and warm sand...part of Salt Point State Park...

Doodling time on Saturday morning

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

The zeppelin, the pagoda and the walking building ala Ron Herron on the drawing wall in the Gensler Oakland office...

Three objects drawn on the wall in the office...

Creating and Blacksmithing and drawing at The Crucible

End state of the creative process of Blacksmithing session at the Crucible in Oakland, I found the need for sketching and drawing the ideas while hammering and flattening and twisting the heated state of the metal ...

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Perspective sketching for Interiors class at U.C. Berkeley Extension, and a bit on Masaccio and Brunelleschi...

 

A progress stage photo from the Sketching for Interiors class at U.C. Berkeley Extension,  this time a focus on the rectangular volume, sitting and standing...and thinking a bit about Masaccio and Brunelleschi...

 

 

 

and a short bit on the art of perspective from: 

http://www.op-art.co.uk/history/perspective/

First Perspective – Fillipo Brunelleschi & Masaccio

 

Masaccio – The Tribute Money c.1426-27 Fresco, The Brancacci Chapel, Florence

 

 

 

The first known picture to make use of linear perspective was created by the Florentine architect Fillipo Brunelleshi (1377-1446). Painted in 1415, it depicted the Baptistery in Florence from the front gate of the unfinished cathedral. The linear perspective system projected the illusion of depth onto a two dimensional plane by use of ‘vanishing points’ to which all lines converged, at eye level, on the horizon. Soon after Brunelleshi’s painting, the concept caught on and many Italian artists started to use linear perspective in their paintings.

 

Masaccio (1401 – 1428) the first great painter of the early Renaissance period, was the first artist who demonstrated full command of the new rules of perspective; the figures in his paintings have volume and the buildings and landscapes realistically recede into the distance. Masaccio is seen now as being the initiator of the new style of Florentine Realism.

Sketching for Interiors class

View of the blackboard lessons on perspective sketching...

First class in the series for Sketching Interiors

Sketching in the digital age

http://www.archdaily.com/399834/sketching-in-the-digital-age-more-relevant-than-eve

Great article in arch daily about sketching in our age of digital composition...