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Frank Lloyd Wright

Randal Birkey Delineator Business Card

Randal Birkey Delineator Business Card

This was my first 4 color business card, created back in the 1980’s, when I relocated by studio from my home in Oak Park, to a studio space in Chicago, on North Wells Street, just south of Chicago Avenue. This illustration was done on yellow tracing paper, using sepia ink in a Rapid-o-graph ink pen, [...]

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Summer Cottage in Prairie School Style

Summer Cottage in Prairie School Style © Randal Birkey

Randal Birkey has created architectural illustrations of many Frank Lloyd Wright architectural designs for his personal portfolio of architectural illustration work. This rendering is based upon a summer cottage design and sketch of Wright’s. The medium Randal used is color pencil on 20″ x 30″ medium gray illustration board. It is interesting to work in [...]

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Architectura Prairie School House

Architectura Prairie School Residence Illustration

This custom house was designed by an architecture firm called Architectura, located in suburban Chicago, in the Prairie School style of Frank Lloyd Wright. Randal was asked to render the home for the architect to better enable his client to visualize how the design would look when completed.
Randal did the wireframe line work in a [...]

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John Franke House Illustration – Ft. Wayne, Indiana

Franke House - Ft. Wayne Indiana

Francis Barry Byrne designed this home in the Prairie School style of architectural design for John B. Franke of Ft. Wayne, Indiana. Randal did this line illustration of the home based upon a visit to the site in the early 1980’s.

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Frank Thomas House, Oak Park, Illinois

Frank Thomas House - Oak Park, Illinois

Deb and I got married in 1980, and settled in Oak Park quite by chance. We really did not know much about the community and its history at the time. In those early years, we discovered the Frank Lloyd Wright connection and became fascinated by his designs. This is a pen and ink drawing I [...]

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