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309-370-0586
taken from Mount Carroll of Illinois
I create the drawing using India ink and apply a black watercolor wash.
Then I apply color with pastels.
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Ronald Reagan Statue  |
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NOW AVAILABLE
Book One - The Merchants of Washington Square
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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....
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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.
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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
-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)
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