santa monica pier

i've had this weird interest in drawing oil rigs lately. i used to see them a lot off the coast of california. i think they look cool... but maybe thats just me.

back to some old school drafting

i had the option to hand draft or use cad for some housing plans for my dad. since i'm not pro at cad i decided it would be just as fast and a lot more exciting to use my drafting table. so i got it rigged back up with my parallel bar and all the other accoutrements. so far so good.

lines and dots

it is incredible what can be expressed through a simple

vertical line or a conglomeration of dots.

this is a plan of Paris created from vertical

lines with a black pen. it is abstract yet elegant.

stippling is a great technique when rendering an object

that has smooth textures and soft edges.

homes of architectural distinction

these are renderings i have done in watercolor of houses that my dad has designed. they are small 2 bedroom cottages that embody traditional character with a timeless way of living.

I have loved studying and copying Van Gogh's work. His colors are so bright and his brush strokes are so bold.

apples : 30"x 30" oils

cherry blossoms : acrylic

irises: prismacolor pencils

... just some paper and a knife

Rome

Paris- Ile de la Cité and Ile Saint Louis

Moscow, Idaho

Art and Culture Center, Moscow

sketches from Paris

Musée d'Orsay

the sorbonne chapel and musée de cluny

the panthéon and storefronts

la défense

the pompidou centre: modern art museum

our little apartment

University of Idaho - Art and Architecture

Here are some drawings from a couple of years ago when I was in high school. These are renditions of work by A. Guptill, Ernest Watson and Franklin Booth, whose style and techniques I greatly admire.