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Architectural

Stonehenge, England

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Randal did a series of ancient structure illustration for a textbook publisher in the 1980’s. The series included this wax pencil on croquil board line art illustration of Stonehenge, England.
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Oak Park Township Offices

Oak Park Township Offices

Randal lives in Oak Park, Illinois, home of Frank Lloyd Wright, Ernest Hemingway, Ray Kroc and many other famous Americans. The local Oak Park Township community officials contacted Randal in the 1980’s to do an illustration of their new offices at 108 S. Oak Park Avenue. The line drawing below was the result. It has [...]

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Chicago River Bridges at Night

Chicago Bridges at Night

Randal did this white ink and pencil illustration of Chicago bridges at night for a project funded by the Open Lands nature conservancy project. The illustration was used in a report designed to highlight how the Chicago River could be developed and turned into an amenity for Chicago, rather than the eyesore that it was [...]

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Office Building Lobby

Office Building Lobby

Randal did this commercial office building interior original illustration using color pencil on cold-press illustration board.
He then converted the illustration to a digital “watercolor” version using Adobe Photoshop filters.

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Greek Island Chapel

Greek Island Chapel

Randal did this watercolor of a chapel on the Greek Island of Santorini, from a photo taken in the summer of 1980.

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Pennsylvania Farmhouse

Pennsylvania Farmhouse

Randal did this watercolor of a farmhouse based upon a photo of his wife’s grandparent’s farm in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.
Here’s a pencil study done of the house before the painting was completed.

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Deering Library

Northwestern University - Deering Library

This is a line drawing of the Gothic style Deering Library on the campus of Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. It was done by Randal for the school to be used on note pads and other printed materials.

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Ward Tower

Northwestern University Ward Tower

This is a line drawing of the Gothic style Ward Tower on the campus of Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. It was done for the school to be used on note pads and Christmas cards.

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Maggiano’s Restaurant

Maggiano's Restaurant

I recently had a meeting at my office with food catered in by Maggiano’s… an Italian Restaurant in the Chicago area. It reminded me that I did some illustration work for the parent company, Lettuce Entertain You Enterprises (LEYE), back in the 1990’s. Here is one such grayscale line and wash illustration done digitally in [...]

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Merry Christmas in 1994

Northwestern Medical Center Christmas Card

Randal has been asked to do many Christmas card illustrations over the years for Northwestern University. Most of them have featured one of their buildings with some kind of Christmas ornamentation added for the holiday spirit. This illustration features the entrance to a building on the Chicago medical campus located at 300 E. Superior in [...]

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