Ukraine on the mind

A re-posting of a sketch from March, 2012 of St. Joseph Ukrainian Catholic Church in Chicago. Marker on tracing paper and then post-computer-enhanced. The church was designed by Ukraine-born architect Zenon Mazurkevich; and was dedicated in 1977.

Chapel

Two views of a small Catholic eucharistic adoration chapel, drawn in 2005 using Google SketchUp, 7" by 5" original size.

Our Lady, Mother of the Church

These drawings were part of a feasibility study that I did for a remodeling of my parish church. The parishioners desired the removal of the plaster baldachino which obscured the diamond-shaped stained glass windows in the church's sanctuary. The final commission was given to another architect. The sketches were drawn in October, 2001 from existing plans of the church using the Microsoft Paint accessory.

School of Athens

This is the outcome of an assignment in one of my drawing classes: to copy and abstract a Renaissance painting. I chose Raphael's School of Athens at the Vatican from a photograph in H. W. Janson's History of Art. Looking at it some forty years later, my depiction of the painting's architecture (a reference to the new St. Peter's basilica) does not really look very abstract. A detail of a 27" by 20" acrylic painting on illustration board, done Spring, 1971. I photographed it at an angle to exaggerate the vertical perspective.

Ukrainian Church

Getting really close to home, here is a sketch of St. Joseph Ukrainian Catholic church in Chicago. The onion domes were originally bright metallic, but they were painted over because pilots landing planes at nearby O'Hare airport complained about the glare from them. Felt tip marker on tracing paper, approximately 6" by 5" original size, drawn on site, March, 2012. The sketch was photographed and color depth was decreased and a sky tone was added using Paint Shop Pro.

This is the same sketch as above, but with the vertical perspective exaggerated and with some added color using Paint Shop Pro to simulate sunset.

Burgos

View of a monastery church near Burgos, along the pilgrimage route to Santiago de Compostela. An unfinished watercolor from sketch notes taken on site. Original size: approximately 12" by 18", December, 1971.

Place de la Concorde

Another drawing of the series for this iconic Parisian public space. Again, felt tip marker on tracing paper, approximately 4" by 3" original size, October, 1971, with sky tone added in 2007. The view is toward the Rue Royale with the Church of the Madeleine in the distance.