SK2’s next featured artist is Bruys Henderson, one of the most hardworking Project Managers around. Bruys has been sketching since he was a kid. He credits his love for drawing as to what led him to his career in architecture.
Bruys took classes at the community college and continued that through university/architecture school. When the housing market crashed in 2008, Bruys started drawing on the side. During that time, Bruys teamed up with an architect in which he would sketch the architect’s concepts as a quick method of selling ideas to clients. He found that his quick sketches were an important tool professionally, giving him the ability to develop his architecture projects more proficiently. Bruys continues this method in his work today.
His chosen featured pieces are quick studies of various structures. In his first series of drawings, Bruys was inspired by the development of the Lincoln Memorial, exploring the designs of John Russell Pope and Henry Bacon. Bacon and Bruys have a lot of similarities in which both grew up in the same area of Illinois. These similarities are probably what lead to Bruys’s continued study of other work by Bacon, including the Illinois Centennial Monument.*
Henry Bacon Lincoln Memorial Concept Sketch
John Russell Pope Lincoln Memorial Concept Sketch
After seeing the play Hamilton, Bruys was inspired to create his next set of study sketches. In this series he looked at the work of Robert Mills, focusing on the Treasury Building in DC with the statue of Hamilton in front. Following that he sketched Pasadena City Hall.
Treasury Building & Hamilton Statue
Pasadena City Hall
If you ever have the pleasure of having Bruys work on your project, you might see his hand sketching talent bring your project to life.
*After his study on the Centennial Monument, Bruys’s research lead him down a rabbit hole of flag study. Bruys learned that the eagle on the monument was the same eagle on the state flag, turns out the monument was a reference to the flag…or something like that.