Comfort Zone Camp in the WSJ

Good Press for a Great Work


My rendering of proposed facilities for Comfort Zone Camp.

Pick up a Wall Street Journal [click to read] today and you will see the Hughes family on the front page. Comfort Zone Camp Founder, Lynne Hughes, was interviewed about the life long affect of losing a parent or sibling as a child. The article includes information from a study recently released by Comfort Zone Camp, funded by the New York Life Foundation.Comfort Zone Camp is trying to create a national conversation about the impact of childhood bereavement.

I did a rendering for Lynne's proposed facilities a while back. It is good to see that people are taking notice of her work!

25 Years Serving the Design Profession

A New Look for the Website...

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Church in the Park

Worship in Art and Music


Photos by Brandon H.


Creating a painting during worship.

Once again Staunton Alliance Church moved our Sunday morning service to Gypsy Hill Park. Our outreach pastor Kipp Purath is really looking for creative ways to put the message of the Gospel into the fabric of our community. This time he asked if I would do something with a painting as part of the worship. I lightly sketched this composition on green paper and did all the painting in forty minutes.

My son told me about 'the Jesus Painter,' an artist who does this all the time. I can't imagine what it would be like doing art under pressure with an audience all the time. Sometimes its nice to be alone in your studio.

Update:

Here's the Jesus Painter Website [click to read]. Mike Lewis, the 'Jesus Painter' is the inspiration for 'performance painting.' Also a note on the image source. I was looking for inspiration so I searched the term: "Jesus with Child" and found some images that were offered as 'free' phone wallpaper or clip art [1.] Here [click to read]. The thumbnail looked like an older image and had no attribution but upon further research I've determined that it is actually a fairly modern work by Greg Olsen who needs to be properly credited for the original.

'World Class Entrance to Shenandoah'

Interest is Out There for Renovating Rockfish Gap


Just imagine shops and residences like these at Stratton Mountain being built at Rockfish Gap.

Lynn [SWAC Girl] just informed me that her post about The Village at Afton concept got picked up by Mountain View Journal [click to read].

The Village at Afton on Facebook [click to read] is a place you can share your thoughts for this.


Condominiums similar to this one at Wintergreen would provide desirable housing options for residents of The Village at Afton.


The Village at Afton.

English Garden Villas

Sales Center Spotlight

Here is a really nice set of renderings for Kenridge, a community that features villas with really nice English gardens in place of the usual expanse of Kentucky 31 Fescue.








Watercolors of Kenridge.

The use of traditional renderings is very effective in conveying the romance of this special community.

Test of Time

One of Our Earliest Clients Respects Our Work

St. Anne's-Belfield School in Charlottesville has been a good client of ours for a long time. We've done several major capital improvement campaigns for their development office and were recently called back for another project. I was pleasantly surprised to find this "gallery" adorning the wall of the Director of Admissions office.



These watercolor renderings tell the story of about ten years of growth for the school. As I was leaving the campus I happened to notice how the master plan rendering had been put to use as a visitor guide.



The vinyl print is a bit faded, but it is still doing a great job of directing guests around the campus.