202 South Plum - Havana, Illinois 62644
309-370-0586

 
taken from Mount Carroll of Illinois

 
   
 

Here are samples of my colorized drawings.
I create the drawing using India ink and apply a black watercolor wash.
Then I apply color with pastels.

The Windmill in Fulton, Illinois

 
This Windmill is from my hometown of Fulton, Illinois

Harlan Hall in Marshall, Illinois
 

The Spirit of Peoria at Starved Rock State Park
 

Riverfront Along the Rock River in Dixon, Illinois
Ronald Reagan Statue
 

  Projects for 2011
Recipes from the Meeting of the Great Rivers National Scenic Byway
NOW AVAILABLE
 
Washington of Illinois
Book One - The Merchants of Washington Square
NOW AVAILABLE

  Projects for 2010

Illinois Scenic Byways Recipe Books

National Road Scenic Byway - ...now available
Illinois River Road Byway - ...now available
Illinois Lincoln Highway - now available
Historic Route 66 - ...now available....

 
 

About the Artist

I started to draw professionally in the spring of 1982. As a self-taught artist, I developed my skills by reading books about drawing and studying pen and ink drawings through books and magazines. In my youth, I worked with my father during the summers building houses, so I was naturally attracted to architecture. Because of my knowledge of home construction, I am amazed by the skill and craftsmanship of early carpenters.

All of my brothers entered in the trades. I was the lone brother that took more interest in the visual element of home construction over the physical labor of building. Growing up in Fulton, Illinois, I used to watch my father, with pencil in hand, lay out his plans for his spring projects. That is when my love of drawing began. I remember designing my own "future home" and showing it to my father. He would look it over carefully, point out what was good and what would not work. He would even laugh at a strangely designed roof or room and inform me of its impracticality. My father died when I was seventeen. He never knew that I was laying the groundwork for a career in drawing. A career that would have me, at this point in time, create over 9,000 drawings of Illinois architecture. He will never know that I have published over 40 books of community architecture throughout Illinois. He will never know that for 12 years I published a magazine, The Illinois Review.

One day I learned that Frank Lloyd Wright had penned over 20,000 original drawings. I set that as my goal. I have followed the work of a Southern Illinois artist, Roscoe Misselhorn. Early in my career, his work inspired me to move forward. He was drawing well into his 90s when he died. So, if I live as long, I have a chance to reach the 20,000 plateau.

I love the act of discovery while driving though a community to see what it has to offer. I hardly ever leave without finding interesting architecture. I look at neighborhoods as my museum. I am never disappointed and always find something somewhere to compare to other communities. I seek the unusual.

   
 - David Alan Badger

 
   
 

 
 
     
 

 David Alan Badger
An Illinois Artist of Historic Architecture

Send email to:
dabadger@casscomm.com

david@davidalanbadger.com
 
     

 
Cahokia Courthouse
taken from Illinois County Courthouses
   
         
 

PROJECTS OF 2006-2008
-Monmouth of Illinois 2006
-Recipes of Illinois Wineries & Bed and Breakfasts-2006
-Versailles of Illinois-2006
-Prairie Hill Winery - Oakford of Illinois -2007
-Monmouth College of Illinois -2007
-Ashland of Illinois - 2007
-Havana Fire Department Firefighters - 2007
-Sterling Book Two-2007
-Dillon Home Museum of Sterling, Illinois-2007
-Rock Falls of Illinois-2007
-Whiteside County Barns-2007


-Grain Elevators and Art - 2008
-Great Rivers Scenic Byways Recipe Project - 2008
-Whiteside County Barns-2008
-Mansion on the Prairie - Hancock County Courthouse 2008
-Hancock County of Illinois - 2008
-Wrigleyville - Baseball, Art, and Life - 2008
-St. Barnabas Episcopal Church of Havana, Illinois
     A Book of Recipes - 2008

PROJECTS OF 2009-2010
-Recipes from the Illinois' National Road Scenic Byway
-Mt. Carroll of Illinois-2009
-Recipes from the Illinois River Road National Scenic Byway
-Potter Drug Store-A Collection of Recipes from Historic Petersburg-2009
-Recipes from the Illinois' Historic Route 66 National Scenic Byway-2010

-Potter Drug Store's A. Lincoln in Central Illinois
-Recipes from The Lincoln Highway National Scenic Byway
-Special Dedication Edition of the
  "The Way We Were Interpretive Park" of Nauvoo, Illinois
  (on September 3, 2010)

     
 

 

 Once my Pen and Ink Drawings are completed, a variety
of fun products can be created.
Here is my Christmas Ornament.
It retails for $8.00 with a minimun
of a 6 ornament purchase.
 
     
   
         
         

 


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