Friday, December 17, 2010

Napa Mills sketch study

One more color ink sketch of the towers, storage mills, and structural steel frameworks on view from the side of the Napa river looking to the west...

Tuesday, December 14, 2010

Saturday, December 4, 2010

Napa Mills building, Silos, towers, brick and history...



Always a pleasure to come across buildings and agglomerations of buildings and structures that have been restored and re-used with different degrees of care and respect...this complex associated with Hatt and then added and expanded during the time of need for grain storage and warehousing by the Napa river is home to the Celadon restaurant...

Thursday, December 2, 2010

Saturday, November 27, 2010

bits of ways of working

 On this rainy interlude after the Thanksgiving celebrations, I have decided to delve into the many different ways that we are working today and will be creating a set of scenarios that illustrate those ways...

Sunday, November 21, 2010

A whisper from the past uncovered during a cleaning...

Spent some of the weekend going through old stuff and ancient boxes of memorable flotsam and jetsam, and found some notes and sketches from a visit to that wonderfully interesting Russian city of Vladivostok...I really wonder if I will ever go back to that city...and I will have to also post some note sketches from those days and nights spent in the city that Moscow seems to have forgotten...

Saturday, November 20, 2010

u cannot escape Halloween!