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81 - Wednesday, November 16, 1988 - North Shore News

Father and son team build unique

architectural illustrat

NEWS photo Neil Lucente

ARCHITECTURAL ILLUSTRATOR Jasper Veerman (top) looks on as
son Ronald works on a drawing for a client. The North Shore artists
make a living turning architectural concepts and designs into full-color
paintings. The illustrations are often used to promote specific construc-
tion projects and are also employed by architects as design toofs.

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A FATHER and son team of North Shore artists has
developed architectural illustration into a fine art of vi-

sionary persuasion.

Jasper Veerman, 51, and son
Ronald Veerman, 28, are two of
several architectural illustrators
based on the North Shore.

If you have ever attended public
hearings at which a developer at-
tempts to shepherd a construction
project through the municipal
development process, you have
seen examples of architectural il-
lustration.

The drawings can be precise,
colorful and detailed exterior ar-
chitectural renderings based on
complete construction drawings, or
they can be a preliminary image of
an architect’s concept embellished
and made concrete in two-dimen-
sional form by the artist.

They can be used as architec-
tural design tools, and they can be
used to sell a project to a lending
institution, a community, a
municipal council or to prospective
tenants.

While most architectural il-
lustrators work with water-color
paints, the Veermans use a water-
soluble surface paint called
gouache.

The paint and gouache tech-
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defined by the nature of the
specialized application.

Said Ronald, who has been
drawing and painting with his fa-
ther for eight years, ‘“‘The paint
doesn’t get absorbed into the paper
and therefore makes it easy to
change the drawings as the ar-
chitects make changes. We can do
the changes as the project prog-
resses.”*

The elder Veerman, trained in
commercial art in Holland, has
turned his hand to more than 1,600
illustrations over the past 25 years.
When he began in Winnipeg, the
specialized trade was in its infancy.

“Architects used to do their own
pencil drawings and build
models,’ he said. ‘‘When I first
came to Vancouver in 1964, local
architects didn’t think I could
make a living at this.””

But today Jasper Veerman Ar-
chitectural Illustrations Ltd. turns
out approximately 12 illustrations
a month for Greater Vancouver
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Subject matter may include
towers, malls .and single-family

residential dwellings. Past projects
include painted drawings of the
Metrotown centre in Burnaby, the
Coquihalla Highway bridges, and
the preliminary version of the new
Park & Tilford Gardens develop-
ment.

The Veermans deal in realistic
portrayals of new structures set in
the context of their environment.
Yet despite the technical aspects of
the trade, there is room for imagi-
native interplay, for example, the
inclusion of a reflected view in the
painted windows of a North Shore
hillside home.

Said Jasper, ‘‘It’s very specializ-
ed and it’s a very gocd field to be
in. You have to be an artist, good
at perspective and have a feel for
architecture. In some cases the
drawings have to be exact and in
other cases we are free to come up
with some ideas. Quite often ar-
chitects wil} adopt ideas we've
come up with.”’

Said Ronald, who is still honing
skills and working to the stage
where he'll be able to turn out
finished works, ‘‘Working with my
dad is fantastic. When times are
good, it’s a good profession to be
in. And I love painting.’’

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