it happened one day

Meandering art that wandered upon this piece of paper.

whoosh!

Another windy day at the beach.

windswept city

The strong, variable winds blow constantly, so the skins of the buildings are built of corrugated, hot-pressed banana leaves.  The buildings can sway and stretch with the winds.  No petroleum products needed.

downtown

This is from the cover of TIME magazine, March 17, 2014.  Lower Manhattan with the crowning of the new World Trade Center.

where ever you go,

there you are

downtown

I love doing these silly little cityscapes.  My scanner is on the blitz so I had my artwork scanned at a Staples store.  I don't know what they did, but the images were very dithered and needed a bit of help from photoshop to make them presentable.

seashell by the seashore

What if future architecture mimicked its landscape?

road trip part 1

I just had to illustrate the roadtrip from Wimberley Texas to Peabody, Massachusetts. 

Aside from a white-out blizzard in the mountains of West Virginia, the weather was great and the adventure was really enjoyable and safe. Cheers to my new life in New England!

road trip part 2

downtown

With tubular public transportation and aquariums. The imaginary cityscape of the future. It's fun to dream up these ideas.

downtown Boston

I started this drawing during a visit in November, and just finished last week. Now, during this current visit, New England is completely covered with snow.

roof craft

New England.

Leonard P. Zakim Bunker Hill Memorial Bridge

What do Bostonians call this bridge? The formal name sure is a mouthful of words.

the canyon

Part rock formation, part modern skyscraper, a cityscape that melds into the natural landscape.

I tried something different; watercolor and ballpoint pen. It was very liberating!

underneath Boston

Northbound through the Thomas P. O'Neill Tunnel. It's like driving through a science fiction novel. Wooosh!

across the street

Downtown Dripping Springs. Mercer Street.

downtown Dripping Springs, Texas

Locally nicknamed Drippin'. This is the next closest town to Wimberley, about 15 miles north. It's growing by leaps and bounds with new developments spreading out from Austin. But downtown has this area of a couple of blocks that have remained the same. The brand new Home Depot, CVS pharmacy, McDonald's and Taco Bell have been encroaching on the old buildings. Drippin' is growing up fast.

Farm to Market

This started out as one of those thoughtless drawings while on the phone. It grew from there. The top of the mountain is a precariously balanced modern city. The further into the valley, the more earthy and organic it becomes. The bridge ties the gap between the two worlds, providing needs and balances to both environments.

Ink on file folder paper, 5" x 8" or so.

comfort zone

I swore I wouldn't stress over Christmas this year. As always, I took the route of making gifts instead of spending money. This year was cookies. Batches of cookies that had to be boxed and mailed to other places. I made 2 batches each of Nestle tollhouse cookies, molasses crinkles with sugar icing, and cinnamon snickerdoodles (my personal favorite). Along with this endeavor, I had project deadlines, a nasty cold, a birthday, and a dear, wonderful friend visiting from Dallas for Christmas. So finally when it was all over, I drew this in a wonderfully mellow sense of satisfaction. I stressed, but not as much as Christmases past.

Happy Holidays to all!

downtown Dallas

When I lived in Dallas, I had repeating dreams of sliding down the long, steep angled part of I.M. Pei's Fountain Place building. I always managed to wake up before landing on the ground.