Belmont (Lofts) 2017 Pencil, marker, collage on paper 10 1/4" x 13"

Belmont (Lofts)
2017
Pencil, marker, collage on paper
10 1/4" x 13"

Getty (Museum) 2010-2016 Pencil, marker, collage on paper 10 1/2" x 13 1/2"

Getty (Museum)
2010-2016
Pencil, marker, collage on paper
10 1/2" x 13 1/2"

Lights Up 2017 Pencil, marker, collage on paper 11" x 8 1/2"

Lights Up
2017
Pencil, marker, collage on paper
11" x 8 1/2"

Plane Geometry 2017 Pencil, marker, collage on paper 8 1/2" x 11"

Plane Geometry
2017
Pencil, marker, collage on paper
8 1/2" x 11"

Ziba Design World HQ 2010-2017 Pencil, marker, collage on paper 11" x 14"

Ziba Design World HQ
2010-2017
Pencil, marker, collage on paper
11" x 14"

See you in Chapel 2017 Pencil, marker, collage on paper 8 1/2" x 11"

See you in Chapel
2017
Pencil, marker, collage on paper
8 1/2" x 11"

Gothic 2017 Pencil, marker, collage on paper 8 1/2 x 11"

Gothic
2017
Pencil, marker, collage on paper
8 1/2 x 11"

Star 2018 Pencil, ink and collage on paper 11" x 14"

Star
2018
Pencil, ink and collage on paper
11" x 14"

Gabels 2017 Pencil, marker, collage on paper 8 1/2" x 11"

Gabels
2017
Pencil, marker, collage on paper
8 1/2" x 11"

Gala 2019 Pencil, marker and collage 11" x 14"

Gala
2019
Pencil, marker and collage
11" x 14"

Ranch 2017 Pencil, marker, collage on paper 8 1/2" x 11"

Ranch
2017
Pencil, marker, collage on paper
8 1/2" x 11"

Shed Roof 2017 Pencil, marker, collage on paper 8 1/2" x 11"

Shed Roof
2017
Pencil, marker, collage on paper
8 1/2" x 11"

Wing 2019 Pencil, marker, pastel and collage 11" x 14"

Wing
2019
Pencil, marker, pastel and collage
11" x 14"

Geopolitics 2019 Pencil, marker and collage 11" x 14"

Geopolitics
2019
Pencil, marker and collage
11" x 14"

Allegro 2019 Pencil, marker and collage 11" x 14"

Allegro
2019
Pencil, marker and collage
11" x 14"

Temple 2019 Pencil, marker and collage 11" x 14"

Temple
2019
Pencil, marker and collage
11" x 14"

Temple, green 2019 Pencil, marker and collage 11" x 14"

Temple, green
2019
Pencil, marker and collage
11" x 14"

Temple, purple 2019 Pencil, marker and collage 11" x 14"

Temple, purple
2019
Pencil, marker and collage
11" x 14"

Westmoreland 2018 Pencil, marker and collage 11" x 14"

Westmoreland
2018
Pencil, marker and collage
11" x 14"

Matthew Sproul

"I illustrate buildings with figures in pencil, marker and collage. When completed I photograph and print the drawings.  The reason for doing so is that my medium is non-permanent Crayola markers.  I use them because they are simple, atypical and buoyantly colored.

I’ve been depicting architecture since 2010. “It is nothing less than life itself taking form,” Frank Lloyd Wright.  

My early pictures have three dimensions, the new ones have two.   I chose the latter method for its expressive quality, as well as to highlight and celebrate this aspect of drawing, painting and collage.

In all of the pieces here the fields are essentially abstract.  They are bands of color chosen mostly to be complementary, though in places they do suggest landscape features and in that sense are open to interpretation by the viewer." — Matthew Sproul, January 10, 2018