This interior perspective and the plate designs are watercolor (with pencil and gouache) renderings done for client presentations. The traditional interior is another designer’s project which was simply just illustrated. The plates involved some design input.

As compared to computer 3D graphics, watercolor paintings are warm and, in real material form, serve as original artwork.

For the purpose of illustrating architecture and interior spaces, the most important aspect to establish is the quality of the light: the direction, the source, the color. Materials and geometries only come to life through light.

These illustrations use a layering technique (as opposed to the wet-on-wet explorative technique used in the abstract paintings) because of the need for accurancy and control. Painting watercolors is an unforgiving process: once a color has been put down, it cannot be erased or taken away. A painting can only get darker.