Drawing the urban landscape
Exploring the city with pen and sketchbook
This is the online version of a book that contains sketchbook drawings of an urban landscape (7X20 inch,double page size) done on site between April 2006 and May 2007 in the city of Stuttgart,Germany. The city with about 600 000 inhabitants is an agglomerate of small towns that have merged over the years. The region is in rapid development and the expansion of the suburbs still continues. Residential and industrial areas are still growing in places around the city. A metropolitan region with ...

Central Park Fantasy: Urban Landscape Photography
Urban Landscape Photographers: Deborah Julian's Central Park Fantasy
Deborah Julian's urban landscape photography gives us new ways of seeing cities. In Central Park Fantasy, she shows us one of the world's most photographed urban landscapes in a new and original way. Central Park in New York City is vividly recreated in saturated colors, and this urban landscape photographer includes her now familiar blend of narrative and art. While a busy park is predictably active, a man who may be flying rushes toward an expectant woman inside a tunnel that seems set fo...

Approaching Storm: Urban Landscape Photography
Urban Landscape Photography by Deborah Julian
Approaching Storm is urban landscape photographyfrom just outside Oslo, Norway. It's existential, surreal and real, all at once Deborah's contemporary fine art prints begin as photographs, sometimes several. The final versions show us a heightened realism in which a narrative is often implied in the composition. When I first saw Approaching Storm, I thought of Rene Magritte and his paintings of isolation, innocent at first, bubbling with turmoil in the whole. More of Deborah Julian's urban...

Tugboat: Urban Landscape Photography
Tugboat Art from New York City by Deborah Julian
It's easy to mistake Deborah Julian's urban landscape photography for paintings. In a poetic rendition of tug boat art, a tug pushes it's way down the East River, just off Manhattan, in a flow of rich, vibrant colors. But no, it's all digital photography. No oils, waters or acrylics applied. Deborah Julian's digital artwork is often dreamlike. A wash of blue makes this composition vibrant. The tugboat towing its cargo down the East River, the residential towers on the Upper East Side, and ev...