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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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1960’s Chevy

1960's Chevy Watercolor Painting

I took a watercolor class in the 1980’s at the American Academy of Art in Chicago and Irving Shapiro was the instructor. I did this watercolor painting for that class. I had the honor of having it featured in his book on Watercolor.

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Treehouse

Treehouse

Randal did this watercolor illustration of a treehouse to fit a layout designed by an educational textbook publisher.

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Watercolor Clown Icon

Watercolor Puppet Clown

Randal did this watercolor illustration as a part of the Memphis Arts Council Map project. This is a clown hand puppet that was used as an icon to designate comedy clubs and venues on the Memphis Arts Map. It was done in Fractal Painter software on a Mac, using a Wacom stylus and tablet.

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