Airbrush Demonstration - Cesar Pelli's Petronas Towers
Note: the following, similar to my post on the Louvre , has to do with techniques from 20 years ago. It could be categorized as “history” rather than “demonstration”, but the reader can take it for what it is worth, and use it in any way they wish. Early August 1992, while I was summering in the Adirondacks I got a call from Jon Pickard at Cesar Pelli’s offices in New Haven. He needed a rendering of a project in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. I had already worked on a job in Kuala Lumpur, so I knew the city (vaguely), but the project that Jon outlined over the phone was well beyond anything I’d ever seen. It was a twin tower skyscraper that would eventually become the tallest building in the world. And, the rendering needed to be finished in 10 days! Kuala Lumpur is the capitol and largest city of Malaysia. It began as a boom town based on tin mining in the 1850’s, but quickly grew into a multicultural metropolis, with Malay, Chinese, Muslims fr...