MERRY CHRISTMAS!!
I decided to post the sketches I have done for our family and firm Christmas Cards for the past several years.

I went to campus for the last time this semester last week and did a few sketches.

Bizzell Library front entry

The Great Reading Room - Bizzell Library

Fine Arts Builidng

North side of the stadium

Here are a few new sketches from around OKC, the weather is starting to get less sketch friendly...

Chesapeake Boathouse - Oklahoma River

Oklahoma Cotton CoOp

First Christian Church - back side view

Carlisle Food Services

Oklahoma Publishing Company

So on the Urban Sketchers Flickr page, there is a theme week thread. Last weeks was power poles which was suggested by me.....so I did a few power pole sketches. Power poles/power lines have always fascinated me. I love their honesty in form and their linear regularity. Here is the link to the Urban Sketchers page.

http://www.flickr.com/groups/urbansketches/discuss/72157622748458672/

A few new sketches, three from downtown OKC and one from Wynnewood, OK.


Hotel Skirvin - Downtown, OKC

Civic Center Music Hall - Downtown, OKC

Centennial Plaza - Looking towards City Hall - Downtown OKC

Refinery - Wynnewood, OK

Sunday sketches

I spent Sunday doing more sketching around town.......

Urban Skyline Ministries - Steeple

Urban Skyline Ministries

HiLo Club

MD Products Manufacturing Facility

I have always loved the look of industrial facilities, manufacturing plants silos etc. There is something beautiful about their raw simplicity of forms and materials. So here are a few sketches of some manufacturing facilities.

Sketching on 9.9.9

OK, so I went out sketching yesterday on 9.9.9, and I had the intention of doing 9 sketches, because I am weird like that. But the rain and time caught up with me and I only managed 4 sketches. But still not bad for a relaxing after work sketch outing.

OKC Federal Building

Union Train Station

Church in Capitol Hill

Factory on south Robinson

Saturday sketching.............

Saturday I got another chance to go out and do some more sketching, the weather was soooooo nice!

Lutheran Church, Robinson, downtown OKC

OCU, Meinders School Business

OCU

First Baptist Church - bell tower, Robinson, downtown OKC

A few sketches from last week. Just some more of the stuff in our neighborhood.

Edgemere.....a composite sketch

First United Methodist on Classen

First Christian on 36th and Walker - "The Egg Church"

The churches get some color......

I decided to go back and add some color to the church sketches.

Churches in the neighborhood

Saturday I got to get out and do a little sketching...I decided it was time to sketch some of the churches in our neighborhood, there are some really good ones. I took E&H with me and their sketches are way better than mine.....here are mine, I haven't scanned theirs yet.

This is the steeple at Westminster Church on Shartel

John Carrol Catholic Church

First Presbyterian Church on Western

mixed media

Sometimes it is necessary to combine hand drawing and digital manipulation to get an "architectural" look in a drawing. Here are a few examples.

Del City Veterans Memorial

Graduate work

Graduate work

Graduate work

Concept for River Park Landing

Concept for a museum

Highrise competition