Out with the old

 I have been very busy with painting and finding room to accommodate everything. Starting freshman year a corner of every room I've been in has had large paper format boxes with rolled up landscape drawings in them. It has been one of the few things that has always been off limits when making room. It was after going through some of my old sketch books from college that I realized that it was over. I will not be pursuing the title Landscape Architect to put on a business card. (you have to work under some one who is licensed and take test to show you can take test) It is something that I feel good to shed. Perhaps one day my art will lead me to designing gardens and estates as something I do for fun. If that is the case I will happily be a no titled guy doing some design work.

Another thing I would like to mention about the top picture is look at the lighting. The light in this room makes me feel like I'm under water sometimes. If I turn on the ceiling fan it gets even better.

 The design above was for a park with a facility for Purdue's rowing crew. The large L shape with lines running through it was supposed to be a large set of steps that went down to the waters edge. The ramps were so everyone could have access and you didn't have to break some bones falling down all the steps to get to the water. To the left of the building was an outdoor amphitheater that had rock walls that ran parallel with the topography up to the top of the park. They were positioned so none of the trees lining the back of the rock walls impeded the view of the stage. The whole park area  was left open because it was a huge flood plain on the Wabash river. I just played with the contours so it would be open for people to do whatever they wanted on the rolling hills. Also when it flooded there would have been a couple really good spots to view the river from at the left end of the park. I had the main walk sitting above the flood plain lined with trees that gave neat views down to the water.

Landscape Delineations

Last night I inked in these landscape plans and this morning rendered them. I use micron pens and sharpie markers for the line work. Typically the trees and buildings are thick line weights and the closer to the ground something is the thinner it's line weight. The coloring medium is chartpak marker. If you use a blender for the first layer the subsequent layers will have softer edges against one another and take on a watercolor like appearance. That is one of things that drew me to watercolor. The markers are limited in what you can do with them and how you deliver them to the paper. Watercolor is much more versatile and there are boundless possibilities in what you can do with it. Anyway these two drawings are from a large piece. If anyone would like their property designed or drawn and rendered in plan form feel free to contact me.