Building art

Here's a selection of some of the pen and ink portraits I've done in recent years. Many of them are in Chicago/the Chicagoland area. What I love is looking back on the homes and remembering some of the personal or specific building details requested: a cat in the window, a potted plant, a brick detail. For many, it wou

Aysylu Zaripova's awe-inspiring works of art showcase a range of architectural monuments across the globe. She appears to have a preference for churches, from

Have you ever heard of "Virtual Plein Air"? It is a term used to describe an act of creating art inspired by Google Street Views. Artists literally look for exciting or interesting places they can then use as a source for their illustrations.

Wash day:

If only these places were real!

JaeCheol Park, who goes by the artist name PaperBlue, creates intricate drawings in the style of architectural drafts. But rather than imagining a buildable building, Park employs the classic illustrative aesthetic to form fantastical urban environments where structures appear and disappear, bleeding into one another in a haze of geometric patterns. His loose linework andContinue reading "Infinite Cities Take Shape in Imagined Architectural Drawings by JaeCheol Park"

Paris

First of all, let us tell you that while we thought the title of the article was interesting, it does not mean that we think that buildings are boring. They

They say that visual arts like drawing, painting and even sculpting starts with the drawing of a line. What if the line itself became the entire art? For