Portfolio of artwork

1. The Art of Devin Oishi
Above: Self Portrait, oil pastel
Background: Detail of Com-
position in Blue, acrylic and
prismacolor on panel
An updated portfolio is main-
tained at: http://www.flickr.
com/photos/devinoishi/

2. Top: Campo De’ Fiori, Roma, Italia, 2006, watercolor
Left: Sistine Chapel, 2006, ink
Bottom: Venice, 2006, watercolor
Next Page
Top:
Yabusame, multi-media collage of photo and watercolor
(1st piece exhibited at Honolulu Academy of Arts)
From Left:
Yabusame Charge, oil pastel
Victory, 2001, oil
Kaneohe Criterium, 2001, oil on panel

4. Clockwise from top left:
Working On the Roof: A Fine Day, 2000, oil on
panel
Grandma’s House (3/4 view), watercolor
Grandma’s House, watercolor
Studies of the Neighborhood, digital photo
Working On the Roof: A Fine Day, 2000-2003,
oil on canvas
A Fine Day: Neighbor’s House, 1997, oil on
canvas
Working On the Roof: A Fine Day (View From
the Top), 2001, oil on panel
Grandma’s House, 1992, acrylic, ink, pencil,
oil, encaustic, and photo on panel (Persis Col-
lection Award at Honolulu Printmakers Exhibit)

6. Clockwise from top left:
Hawaii Air National Guard F-15 at an Air Show, 2004, ink
sketches
The Flower Shop, 2002-2003, oil on panel
Kikaida Playing Hanafuda for World Domination, 2003, oil on
panel
Mr. Oshiro and the Central Middle School Band, 2004, ink
sketches
Background: Fishing at Kualoa Beach, watercolor

9. Drawings and paintings from
Pualani and the Three Mano,
a book I am writing and illus-
trating, 2005-2006 (Story and
additional images in editing)

10. Illustrations, models, and
display board for: Green
Rest Stop, 2006, water-
color, digital media, card-
board, paper, wood

13. City Surfer BRT, 2002.
Winner: Excellence in the Use
of Established BRT Concepts,
Bus Rapid Transit and the
American Community: The
National Competition, BRT
Consortium
The UH Design Team devel-
oped plans for a BRT system
that included routes, stations,
vehicles, infrastructure, and
social change.
I designed the BRT exterior and
the small shelters. The shelter,
reflected in the form of the
rear window mullion, inspired
the logo and name of the sub-
mission. Others contributed the
3-D mock-up, researched the
technology, planed the route,
and created the boards.
http://web.mit.edu/rtam/Pub-
lic/brtcomp/

14. Green Rest Stop Models,
2006, wood, steel, plastic

15. Clockwise:
T-Rex, 2006, plexi-glass, plaster
T-Rex, 2006, digital rendering
for the T-Rex toy at top left
Triceratops, 2006, masonite
Laser Cutter, 2006, photo of
the laser cutting the pieces of
the T-Rex
Swallow, 2006, digital render-
ing
Delta, 2006, paper, rendered
in Rhino, exported to AutoCAD,
cut by laser, assembled by hand

16. Bricks, 2005, Auto CAD.
This house was designed
as a virtual test bed for a
system of bricks similar to
LEGO blocks that would al-
low the quick construction,
remodeling, or move of a
structure by layman with
minimal help of profession-
als. Bricks were designed to
be simple with the fewest
iterations possible. Auto
CAD was required for the
project but proved to be
difficult to use for 3-D mod-
eling. The program eventu-
ally slowed to a crawl and
became a hinderence to
the design process.

17. 1890 Wynkoop, Denver Colo-
rado, 2005, ink on mylar
These drawing were made using
only photographs and measure-
ments taken off the building
with the aide of one of the
architects who had remodeled
an apartment in the building.
The diagrams above were de-
veloped to illustrate individual
design concepts of the build-
ing: private/public, circulation,
light, piloti, design grid, build-
ing public/private use, massing,
set back, axis, entrance/exit.

18. Barragan House, 2005,
bass wood. This model was
constructed by a team for
Design Studio at CU-Den-
ver’s Master of Architecture
Program. The close-up is
my section. Ambeur John-
son, Will Babbington and
Dan Martel completed the
other sections.

19. Above, left, and right: Grid, 2005,
Freehand (the program), ink, bass
wood, plexi, acrylic.
Right: Dance Sketches (after Stravin-
ski and Balanchine Violin Concerto
and Ballet), 2005, ink and graphite,
Grid Sections, 2005 Freehand
The small sketches to the left were
derived from a dance performance
by Stravinsky and Balanchine. The
sketches were combined in part-
nership with another student into
numerous graphic diagrams. Individu-
ally, one of those diagrams (below
the sketches) was chosen and used as
a departure point for the ink draw-
ing and then the gray scale drawing.
The rotating yin and yang balance of
the diagram evolved into a complex
series of rotating 9s that represented
the systems that make up the Uni-
verse. A section was taken from the
gray scale and developed into the
four sections. The grey scale and
sections were applied to plexi glass.
A bass wood model was designed
with the volume defined by the plexi
construct.

20. 1
Ink
DEVICEMAN
Images from:
The Aircraft Carrier Abra-
ham Lincoln, In progress,
digital, graphite, ink