Tag: modern architecture
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Kitchen Design Drawings
August 22, 2022 Sometimes it is useful while making a design presentation to a client to present a floor plan and a perspective view side by side. This drawing, (ink liners, graphite pencil and colored pencils on yellow trace paper) describes a recent project, a whole house remodeling in Washington DC. Peace!
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Urban Ag Learning Center Under Construction
August 14 2019 Last year I designed a solar greenhouse for a great local non-profit organization: Lighthouse Youth and Family Services (https://www.lys.org/). The greenhouse is to be used and maintained by students at the Lighthouse Community School and will allow the students to continue learning about sustainable agricultural techniques throughout the winter months. Thanks to a generous grant…
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Luber Residence
This past September I asked photographer Ross Van Pelt to meet me in Ft.Thomas KY at a house I designed some 20 years ago. I always loved this light-filled house but the four or five images of it taken with film photography had been lost. During the shoot I served as amateur photographer’s assistant. For…
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Drawings: Kitchen Design
From my continuing series of illustrations and architectural drawings…. In 2006, I received a fantastic commission for a house near Cashiers, North Carolina. I made this drawing (pen and color markers on newsprint) of one corner of the kitchen during the design phase. I wanted to show my client how the windows, cabinetry and natural…
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Drawings: Mountain Section
This drawing of my Mountain House design from 2006 is both a design elevation and a site section. (pen and ink, gray markers and pencil on yellow trace paper). A site section drawing describes a cut through the ground, in this case showing a building elevation beyond the cut. Although it is rendered with shade…
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Drawings: Kitchen Windows
This month I wanted you to see a drawing that I made to illustrate part of a large residential remodeling project. (#2 pencil and prismacolor pencils on white trace paper) This was done quickly, probably executed in about an hour or so. It was effective though both in helping me understand and showing my client…
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Drawings: AMC Pacer
While thinking about drawings I’ve made over the last 30 years to include in this drawing series, I came across a sketchbook that had this imaginary street scene in it (pencil on sketch paper). The drawing is dated May, 1992 and was done simply for the pleasure of it. A car that looks something like an…
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Drawings: Family Room Interior
This month’s drawing (#2 pencil and colored pencil on yellow trace paper) was part of a design proposal for a residential addition and renovation project dating to 2001. This was to be a light filled space with large windows looking out to a wooded green lot. It is important to set up a drawing like…
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Drawings: Cincinnati Street Scene
This month’s illustration: Some years back, a firm where I was employed wanted to secure the design commission to add floors to an existing building in downtown Cincinnati. I was asked to depict the street facade in this illustration (pen, colored markers and pastel on paper). This was a special challenge because this drawing was pre-design. Although…
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Drawings: Great Hair
One more in my continuing series: The illustration this time was of a hair salon interior designed by a colleague of mine. The task here was to represent the exact materials, furniture and finishes that had already been specified. Using markers, colored pencils, pastels and collage on white paper I wanted to emphasize the fun…