{"id":13607,"date":"2022-03-29T02:24:59","date_gmt":"2022-03-29T02:24:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/finearchitecturalillustration.com\/?p=13607"},"modified":"2022-03-29T02:24:59","modified_gmt":"2022-03-29T02:24:59","slug":"watercolor-painting-of-philip-johnsons-glass-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/finearchitecturalillustration.com\/index.php\/2022\/03\/29\/watercolor-painting-of-philip-johnsons-glass-house\/","title":{"rendered":"Watercolor Painting of Philip Johnson’s Glass House"},"content":{"rendered":"Here’s a watercolor I just finished….It’s my rendition of Philip Johnson’s Glass House in New Canaan, Connecticut.\u00a0 Built in the 1949 it is the quintessential glass box–architecture pared down to its simplest modern essence.\u00a0 A metal and glass rectangle–the only privacy concession is a circular brick element within which houses a bathroom.\u00a0 ![\"Watercolor](\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\")
Pretty crazy stuff–but I love it !\u00a0 Imagine living there with the trees, grass and nature on full display just outside the glass–the peaceful nature always right there seemingly at arm’s length !\u00a0 There’s something both shocking and inspiring about this pure and simple structure.\u00a0 You can hear people say:\u00a0 “I couldn’t live in that fishbowl !”\u00a0 “Natural light and lots of glass–I love that part, but totally impractical to live in”….Why not ?\u00a0 I guess that’s the architect and purist in me–I don’t see a big problem.\u00a0 I love it, and I could imagine myself being very happy living there….This is one of my favorite works of art….It’s one of a dozen or so architectural works that are most inspiring to me–and were very formative in my early passions for architecture….The watercolor painting was fun to do also….it’s a simple palette: Cadmium Yellow, Ultramarine, Burnt Siena, and Black….That’s it !\u00a0 I chose to backlight the house because it shows off the transparency and the oneness with nature.\u00a0 Dappled light from the surrounding trees and s few white highlights here and there to accentuate the geometric clarity of the metal-framed box.\u00a0 The glass has some transparent and some reflective qualities, but is largely neutral.\u00a0 Kind of a meditative mood about it–it’s a peaceful and quiet architectural thought put into reality by the architect.\u00a0 I’m not a huge Philip Johnson fan, but with this particular house, I think he nailed it….for me, the best work he ever did….Thanks for reading this–and for enjoying the watercolor !<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Here’s a watercolor I just finished….It’s my rendition of Philip Johnson’s Glass House in New Canaan, Connecticut.\u00a0 Built in the 1949 it is the quintessential glass box–architecture pared down to its simplest modern essence.\u00a0 A metal and glass rectangle–the only privacy concession is a circular brick element within which houses a bathroom.\u00a0 Pretty crazy stuff–but […]<\/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":[8,9,10,11,1],"tags":[17,51,80,86,118],"class_list":["post-13607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-architectural-illustration","category-architectural-rendering","category-personal-fun-stuff","category-perspective-drawing","category-uncategorized","tag-architectural","tag-illustration","tag-perspective","tag-rendering","tag-watercolor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/finearchitecturalillustration.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13607","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=13607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/finearchitecturalillustration.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13607\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/finearchitecturalillustration.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/finearchitecturalillustration.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/finearchitecturalillustration.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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Pretty crazy stuff–but I love it !\u00a0 Imagine living there with the trees, grass and nature on full display just outside the glass–the peaceful nature always right there seemingly at arm’s length !\u00a0 There’s something both shocking and inspiring about this pure and simple structure.\u00a0 You can hear people say:\u00a0 “I couldn’t live in that fishbowl !”\u00a0 “Natural light and lots of glass–I love that part, but totally impractical to live in”….Why not ?\u00a0 I guess that’s the architect and purist in me–I don’t see a big problem.\u00a0 I love it, and I could imagine myself being very happy living there….This is one of my favorite works of art….It’s one of a dozen or so architectural works that are most inspiring to me–and were very formative in my early passions for architecture….The watercolor painting was fun to do also….it’s a simple palette: Cadmium Yellow, Ultramarine, Burnt Siena, and Black….That’s it !\u00a0 I chose to backlight the house because it shows off the transparency and the oneness with nature.\u00a0 Dappled light from the surrounding trees and s few white highlights here and there to accentuate the geometric clarity of the metal-framed box.\u00a0 The glass has some transparent and some reflective qualities, but is largely neutral.\u00a0 Kind of a meditative mood about it–it’s a peaceful and quiet architectural thought put into reality by the architect.\u00a0 I’m not a huge Philip Johnson fan, but with this particular house, I think he nailed it….for me, the best work he ever did….Thanks for reading this–and for enjoying the watercolor !<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"