Illustrated with more than 500 sketches, drawings, maps, and diagrams, this book takes you on road trips around the Great Lakes. It’s the story of lighthouse building on the lakes and the lighthouse establishment plus descriptions of how lighthouses and their components work as well as the story of other players like keepers and tenders.
With sketches form around the world, this book takes you on a journey starting with the definition of sketching from observation and an introduction to right-brain drawing. You get a discussion of black and white and color sketching with a focus on colored pencil as an easy-to-use medium. Perspective drawing is demystified and you then take side trips to understand shade and shadow, reflections, landscapes, streetscapes, sky and skyline. This book presents the fundamentals of rapid colored pencil sketching to “capture the moment” for designers and for travelers who have always wanted to draw the notable places they visit.
Illustrated with 200 barn sketches, diagrams, and maps, Barns of the St Croix Valley: An Architect’s Sketchbook takes you on a journey through the St Croix River Valley. With research from more than 40 sources, the colorful history of the St Croix Valley is unlocked. The book grounds you in the geography, geology, and biology of the region and introduces you to the Dakota and Ojibwe peoples, European explorers, fur traders, loggers, the settlers that followed them, and the history of farming in the Valley. It honors regional diversity and architectural expression through the vernacular architecture of a single type of building—the barn.
Barns stand as a testament to a bygone era. To the way farming used to be. On working farms old barns are put to use, but not as originally intended, which was for storing hay in the haymow and cows or cattle and young stock below. Many return to earth, little by little, until one day the barn you’ve been driving by is now flat, marked only by a silo.