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Cushing Academy Campus Aerial Perspective Map

Cushing Academy is a private coeducational secondary school founded in 1865, and located in Ashburnham, MA. They have partnered with a design firm called Corey, McPherson, Nash to redesign their viewbook. Through a web based search, CMN contacted Randal Birkey Illustration and contracted for a new Campus Map to be produced both for the school viewbook [...]

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CSO’s Symphony Center

CSO Concert Hall Interior

The home of the world renowned Chicago Symphony Orchestra is called Orchestra Hall, located on Michigan Avenue in Chicago. Randal Birkey was commissioned to produce a series of architectural illustrations of the Orchestra Hall renovation project called “Symphony Center,” a new combined complex housing the auditorium, practice rooms, backstage production and staging areas, and the headquarter [...]

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Loft Conversion Project

Chicago Loft Conversion

Randal Birkey created this watercolor illustration of a Chicago industrial style warehouse building being converted to residential lofts by a Chicago area real estate developer back in the 1980′s. Randal created the 20″ x 30″ ink line and watercolor art for the building and project architects, CAPA, also a Chicago firm.

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Skyscraper Design

Randal Birkey's Skyscraper Tower Design

Randal Birkey created this urban skyscraper tower design as a personal architectural design and illustration exercise. This version of his design was rendered in watercolor on D’Arches watercolor board.

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Redfearn Development Streetscape

Redfearn Streetscape

A graphic designer from the Marietta, South Carolina area contacted Randal in 2003 through this portfolio website and inquired about developing a streetscape illustration to be used in promoting a residential housing development. Randal worked with the designer and the photo resources provided by the developers and architects to create this illustration intended to communicate [...]

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Prairie Style House

Prairie Style House

Randal was commissioned by a real estate development firm to develop this architectural rendering of a residential design being offered in a development in Chicago’s near South Loop area. This was to be new construction offered in the Prairie School style, popularized by Frank Lloyd Wright. Randal first worked from architectural drawings to develop a [...]

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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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Farm Tractor

Farm Tractor

This is another watercolor painting I did around the time of my watercolor class at the American Academy of Art in the 1980′s.

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