A Captive Audience...Sketchbook, Part Three

Some more sketchbook bumf...the captive audience aspect of hospitals and doctors having been previous alluded to, these are a series of sketchbook design studies for one of my doctors. She wanted to rework the entrance to her weirdly modern house in Marblehead, Massachusetts. So, voila', instant solution. Well, not so instant but fun to do. Drawn in the same media as described in the previous post, this is all about pen, pencil and watercolor paper. This project was constructed in about three weeks and turned out really well, thanks to an exceptionally talented contractor. It looks really cool at night when the Kal-Wall canopy is illuminated and the decorative lighting is turned on. I'll post some pictures when I get the chance but trust me, it turned out just like the drawings. I love it when that happens...

 

 



All of these drawings are done in a multi-media watercolor paper sketchbook. They were drawn from photographs as hardline studies in 3H pencil and then inked freehand with Micron and Pilot Razor Point pens. The pencil washes were slowly built up with 2H and 3H pencils. The landscape entourage is pretty accurate. And that guy on the right is me. The woman sitting on the bench in the drawing in the middle is the client. Well, mostly...

I like the scheme shown directly above. The client liked the scheme shown in the middle which is the one we ended up doing. Matching the existing stone veneer ended being too big of a pain in the ass and anyway, the new stone matching the existing didn't turn corners very well. So, instead, we built the big wood pier / lantern shown in the middle. Which again proves the maxim that you should never show a client the scheme you don't like because inevitably that is the scheme that they will pick. Even still, it turned out well. Wait for the pictures.....