My illustration of the Monsanto House of the Future at ’50s Disneyland.

SketchUp

I visited Denver’s Vance Kirkland Museum and saw this Art Deco radio that I just had to draw for fun.

It is specifically a 1937 Spartan 558 Sled Radio!

SketchUp

By the way, the RRS Feed is now working, and take a peek at my other website, TheDenverEye.com.

Sinclair Gas Station drawing, based on the station still standing on South Broadway (as of this writing) in Denver, built sometime in the 1950s, I presume.

Sinclair made AM radios that looked like these pumps. Let me know if you have an extra one!

Variations on this gas station are peppered all over the Denver area. The all have that same roof over the pumps.

SketchUp

Just got back from Sarasota, and I didn’t get any good pictures!

But I did get to tour a great place, The Cooney House by Sarasota School of Architecture architect Tim Siebert, designed 1967.

I woke up the following day and decided to try to draw this up from memory, while it was still fresh!

A very interesting house! Those are floor to ceiling doors, they must be 9 feet or so in height!

3D drawing of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Jacobs House, a Usonian design from 1937.

I was looking at some of the illustrations by SketchUp illustrator Jeff Thielemier, and thought I should try to draw a complicated Usonian home.

I draw very quickly. 3 hours last Friday, 1 hour Saturday, and a couple of more hours tonight.

I’ll probably add a few more details to the interior, then upload it to the 3D Warehouse.

Google Sketchup

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Drawing of White Spot on Alameda, in Denver.

This is now Davies’ Chuck Wagon II.

SketchUp, CorelDraw

West Colfax Drive-In sign illustration

Built 1967. Once located where the Westland Shopping Center is now.

I really couldn’t tell the colors from the black & white source photo, so I went with the McDonald’s color theme. A nice, simple Googie design.

Google SketchUp

If you were following along at all during the weekend, I was posting incomplete versions of this drawing as I was working on it, just for fun. This is a Google SketchUp 3D illustration of a ’50s-era Automart Grocery Store, with a hyperbolic curved roof.

I love to illustrate and since it is on target with the same subject matter as the rest of this site, I feel it is appropriate. Click on the illustrations to make them larger.

I “eyeball” all of the dimensions for my drawings, so there are sometimes minor things that are inaccurate. I reserve the right to call this “artistic license”.

Thanks for visiting Modeling Mid-Century Modern!

Warren St. Thomas’ night club, The Tropics on W. Mississippi.

I drew this in Google SketchUp, just for fun.

I’ll rework this and spend more time on it, when I find more source material!

SketchUp, CorelDraw