You shouldn’t.
This tumblr blog – Illustrated Vancouver – is “an online project to document 1,000 works of art depicting Vancouver, British Columbia ~ past, present, and future. Curated by jmv on Twitter & flickr.”
jmv is doing a great job of visually capturing this city’s brief history. For instance:
Portion of a rendering of the Hotel Vancouver (1916) by Francis S. Swales, architect. Preliminary perspective drawing by H.C. Wilkinson, retouched by Francis S. Swales. From an article in Pencil Points magazine (September, 1930) dedicated to Francis S. Swales, the work is further described…
“…as being the earliest modern set back building, designed in 1911. The drawing was done in pencil on mounted Steinbach paper and rendered with water color. The portion reproduced measured 8¾” x 11 on the original while the whole drawing measured 34” x 26”. It is seldom that we see today such care expended in drawing the detail on a building.”
Alas, if we could only see this entire rendering in colour—spectacular! It was truly the grandest hotel we ever had in this town.
JMV was a regular at Yuri’s meet ups last year. Bet he’s a PT reader…
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Of course he is. Apologies to Jason.
JMV is a friend of mine – he has a flickr photostream too http://www.flickr.com/photos/jmv/ which includes his picture.
Jmv aka Jason rules! i.e. what stephen said 🙂