This addition to the deck, a new railing and walk, new set of steps, a pond and totally new landscape plantings was an eye-opener. The Inside For the homeowners it had come down to the large changes outside vs. the addition to the size of the kitchen. The drawings and estimate were put together for… Continue reading It Never Happened
Category: color rendering
Sign, Sign, Everywhere’s a Sign
Some rendering possibilities for sign for a business I have done some work for in the past So this is one idea above and then I thought about drawing another idea, this one mostly for myself. Looking at this as I am writing . . . doesn’t that look like a wishing well? Sorta, it’s… Continue reading Sign, Sign, Everywhere’s a Sign
From the Sketchbook(11)
After the previous post on Eyvind Earle I caught myself thinking about his marvelous use of putting colors together to create really magical scenes, and the next thing I know is I’m attempting(attempting) to do the same thing while watching the Cav’s game tonight. This is in a Windsor~Newton all-purpose sketchbook using Copic markers. Added… Continue reading From the Sketchbook(11)
Design Principles(09)
In DP(08) I thought I was finished talking about color, or I thought I was finished sending you to sites that discuss all the great things concerning color. Well; as usual, I was wrong. Not that any of you are surprised that I was wrong. Heck you guys probably always think I am wrong about… Continue reading Design Principles(09)
Design Principles (08)
In several previous post I went through the very elemental beginnings of my take on Landscape Design Principles. The last was how I looked at design when considering motion, and the two parts of motion; static and dynamic. Now let me turn my attention to the most discussed of all landscape design principles . . … Continue reading Design Principles (08)
Design Principles (07)
Let’s move a little further along my list of what I consider The 10 Basic Principles of Design. Remember this list? Ten Building Blocks to Design-Design at it’s Most Primitive 7 physical and 3 Sensory Elements=The 10 Basics of Design Physical Elements: Point: where everything starts. Line: the connection of two points. Plane: connection of… Continue reading Design Principles (07)
Designing Mice Under the Carpet
In my previous post I spent some time talking about berms and such, plus some other fun nonsense. Fun nonsense? . . . and I must say some very practical nonsense on designing berms. Mounds??? Notice I do not call these mounds. Why? Well they’re not. They are not mounds . . . as in… Continue reading Designing Mice Under the Carpet
Designing an Identity
A quick landscape study for a client. This is part of a much larger conceptual idea I have for frontage in front of 3 office buildings. These 3 buildings and 2 others form a “campus like setting” that is divided by one public two lane road. 1 building on one side of the street and… Continue reading Designing an Identity
The Stages of a Color Rendering
A client asked me to render a redesigned boardwalk area. These are the steps I went through to make that happen. The above is a simple pen drawingdone fairly quickly, giving the client an opportunity to see what possibilities for the future may hold. Above I have kept the color rendering on top of the… Continue reading The Stages of a Color Rendering
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