{"id":12228,"date":"2021-10-04T18:12:12","date_gmt":"2021-10-04T18:12:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/finearchitecturalillustration.com\/?p=12228"},"modified":"2021-10-04T18:14:24","modified_gmt":"2021-10-04T18:14:24","slug":"color-architectural-illustrations-for-oakland-california-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/finearchitecturalillustration.com\/index.php\/2021\/10\/04\/color-architectural-illustrations-for-oakland-california-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Color Architectural Illustrations for Oakland, California Project"},"content":{"rendered":"The feature of this blog is a series of four color illustrations I did for an architect in 2020.\u00a0 Rick Williams is the architect and his San Francisco architectural firm is Van Meter Williams Pollack LLC.\u00a0 The project is a re-thinking of key areas of an existing college campus , Mills College, in Oakland, California.\u00a0 These renderings are conceptual in nature–and the content was derived mostly by Rick from his vision to enliven and update various spots in and around the campus. ![\"Color](\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\")
I do not have significant input here, but occasionally I contribute a bit to the ideas and images–especially if asked to do so.\u00a0 Rick is particularly good at surveying the needs of a facility after touring the existing conditions.\u00a0 And these images are basically the result of what Rick believes to be the most important improvements the College could make.\u00a0 \u00a0On the aesthetic look of these renderings, however, I do have a lot of input.\u00a0 I usually offer color pencil or watercolor as the techniques to choose.\u00a0 The architect and I usually are in agreement on which “look” is best for a particular project.\u00a0 Color pencil was the right choice for this project, and pretty loose in character.\u00a0 We just wanted to show an indication of scale and architectural style, without getting into too much detail because the details are not important at this point.\u00a0 The first rendering shows a modernist straight-line design with flat roofs, white stucco, and horizontal wood siding accents.\u00a0 The second rendering shows a contemporary farmhouse sensibility for the Growers Market and housing.\u00a0 The third rendering takes its architectural clue from the existing campus gate and more historical, Early California feel.\u00a0 The fourth rendering has emphasis on the “neighborhood feel” of the single-family houses for the faculty–and there are various styles shown therein.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The feature of this blog is a series of four color illustrations I did for an architect in 2020.\u00a0 Rick Williams is the architect and his San Francisco architectural firm is Van Meter Williams Pollack LLC.\u00a0 The project is a re-thinking of key areas of an existing college campus , Mills College, in Oakland, California.\u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,9,11,1],"tags":[17,51,74,80,86,93,115],"class_list":["post-12228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-architectural-illustration","category-architectural-rendering","category-perspective-drawing","category-uncategorized","tag-architectural","tag-illustration","tag-oakland","tag-perspective","tag-rendering","tag-san-francisco","tag-visualization"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/finearchitecturalillustration.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/finearchitecturalillustration.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/finearchitecturalillustration.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/finearchitecturalillustration.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/finearchitecturalillustration.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/finearchitecturalillustration.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12228\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/finearchitecturalillustration.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/finearchitecturalillustration.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/finearchitecturalillustration.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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I do not have significant input here, but occasionally I contribute a bit to the ideas and images–especially if asked to do so.\u00a0 Rick is particularly good at surveying the needs of a facility after touring the existing conditions.\u00a0 And these images are basically the result of what Rick believes to be the most important improvements the College could make.\u00a0 \u00a0On the aesthetic look of these renderings, however, I do have a lot of input.\u00a0 I usually offer color pencil or watercolor as the techniques to choose.\u00a0 The architect and I usually are in agreement on which “look” is best for a particular project.\u00a0 Color pencil was the right choice for this project, and pretty loose in character.\u00a0 We just wanted to show an indication of scale and architectural style, without getting into too much detail because the details are not important at this point.\u00a0 The first rendering shows a modernist straight-line design with flat roofs, white stucco, and horizontal wood siding accents.\u00a0 The second rendering shows a contemporary farmhouse sensibility for the Growers Market and housing.\u00a0 The third rendering takes its architectural clue from the existing campus gate and more historical, Early California feel.\u00a0 The fourth rendering has emphasis on the “neighborhood feel” of the single-family houses for the faculty–and there are va![\"Color](\"https:\/\/b1204804.smushcdn.com\/1204804\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/JMG-Mills-Gate-in-Color-72-dpi.jpg?lossy=2&strip=1&webp=1\")
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rious styles shown therein.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"