As many of you may know, I have neglected this site for a bit to concentrate more on photography on my other site TheDenverEye.com, as opposed to illustration here on ModMidMod. Sorry if I have been missing your comments, I thought they were forwarding to my home email, sadly they were not. I will be posting more illustrations here soon, as well as continuing with photography on The Eye.
Thank you all for the kind words!! -Tom Lundin
Hi there, sorry I don’t post more often. I have been concentrating on my other site, but I got back to illustration after work today. Hope you like it.
My illustration of the Monsanto House of the Future at ’50s Disneyland.
SketchUp
I visited Denver’s Vance Kirkland Museum and saw this Art Deco radio that I just had to draw for fun.
It is specifically a 1937 Spartan 558 Sled Radio!
SketchUp
By the way, the RRS Feed is now working, and take a peek at my other website, TheDenverEye.com.
Sinclair Gas Station drawing, based on the station still standing on South Broadway (as of this writing) in Denver, built sometime in the 1950s, I presume.
Sinclair made AM radios that looked like these pumps. Let me know if you have an extra one!
Variations on this gas station are peppered all over the Denver area. The all have that same roof over the pumps.
SketchUp
Just got back from Sarasota, and I didn’t get any good pictures!
But I did get to tour a great place, The Cooney House by Sarasota School of Architecture architect Tim Siebert, designed 1967.
I woke up the following day and decided to try to draw this up from memory, while it was still fresh!
A very interesting house! Those are floor to ceiling doors, they must be 9 feet or so in height!
3D drawing of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Jacobs House, a Usonian design from 1937.
I was looking at some of the illustrations by SketchUp illustrator Jeff Thielemier, and thought I should try to draw a complicated Usonian home.
I draw very quickly. 3 hours last Friday, 1 hour Saturday, and a couple of more hours tonight.
I’ll probably add a few more details to the interior, then upload it to the 3D Warehouse.
Google Sketchup
Drawing of White Spot on Alameda, in Denver.
This is now Davies’ Chuck Wagon II.
SketchUp, CorelDraw
This is an old White Spot location, circa early-1960s, now Davies’ Chuck Wagon II. (Pictures of Davies’ Chuck Wagon I can be found here.)
The White Spots were designed by Armet & Davis, the firm famous for their Los Angeles coffee shop architecture, a style referred to as Googie. (Though the Googie’s restaurant itself was designed by John Lautner)
This design is different than the other Denver White Spots, I guess I would call this a butterly roof with an additional fold.
I like the way they had the White Spot signposts penetrate the rooflines.
The interior has been refurbished over the years, but you can still appreciate the vaulted ceilings and flowing counters. I have also posted pictures of another former White Spot on my new site, the Denver Eye.
