Precedent images

I am pleased with the images I found although Jamie said they would convey what I had in mind better if I cropped them, which I will do for tomorrow. I the mean time here are some of the short list:

Colour colour colour...

I was so fed up with the dullness of my sites...that my reasons for my brilliantly colourful canopy and pink walls is to brighten up my dull sites......I love colourful gardens and colour makes people happy, it is like the sun...the light reflections create a cheerful mood..and pink or...Jamie's suggestion of cerise shows the green of any plants off in a spectacular way....I am sticking to my bright pink but Dear potential client...you can have any colour you like!

 lol

crit 13th Jan 2014 pre final hand in.

 

 

 

 

 

Pin up yesterday, amendments needed........

Plans: Key too large on plan...I think needs re-colouring too, Colour some buildings for context, why pink walls? Julia asked...because the contrast with green is intense. Canopy looks like it is plonked....may change the shape...for the better I hope...Text font and size need to change.

 

 

 

 

Sections of Mint Street:Ground line needs to be thicker and section should be whole length of A1

Sections for Crossbones:Maybe turn this section 90 degrees, I am going to re colour these and drop the backgrounds

 

Sketch perspectives: Pleased with these, maybe add fruiting trees, need 4 more sequences to make up a full walk through of the parks

Precedents/Mood board: Leave spaces around some pics, find out where the pictures are of....change, add maybe...still only 7 though...

 

Quite pleased with my feedback overall, I know what I have to do to improve, I just don't have a lot of time to do it...working tomorrow and Thursday so I only really have 3 days to do it all....arrrrgghhhh

 shame as it could be so much better....

What I have been doing since my last blog...

 

 

 

 



Although nothing uploaded on here, I have been working on my projects, albeit slow progress as I am not a whizz with the computer and my sketching skills need much more practice, I am hoping that I can achieve something to be proud of.

 

Sketch book ideas for naming my site....

and the content, what should be present in the park? After a lot of document reading about The London Plan, green infrastructure, green urban spaces, Bankside Open Spaces Trust, London Green Grid , GreenBay Urban tree canopy and more, I have come to the conclusion: 

Definitely trees..lots of trees.... to go hand in hand with the Bankside 'Urban Forest' project and the 'RE-LEAF' plan for London. Green walls, green roof, community gardening and community space/centre, water of some kind, a place to sit, a place to eat and a space for walking and cycling through. Crossbones must have (in my mind) a memorial of some kind for the Winchester Geese. (Ladies of the night who were buried in an unconsecrated grave on the Crossbones site, and later, paupers of the area.)

Ribbons for the dead tied to a gate at Crossbones and the green wall along the North Boundary of the site.

My Winchester Geese!

Some drawing practice for the sequential sketching....these are not pictures of my site...

This was a thumbnail quick sketch of Crossbones site looking towards the Shard, again...not actually what I intend, just a practice.

 

Now I must get on with the real pics for my sites...Mint Street is proving more tricky but hey ho, same for everyone.



Finally uploaded Metis.... phew

Painting day

 

 

Went on my painting day yesterday and Jack (the teacher) said we were doing transcripts...No idea what he meant...we had to pick a postcard randomly from a selection which we couldn't see. Then copy the picture using a large stick of graphite.

 

 

This was my first attempt, I think the painting was called 'In search of shelter' although I can't remember the artist.

 

 

 

 

I then did some backgrounds for my Metis competition as I want to be able to do the elevations by hand instead of completely all on computer. This is going to be my base I think, water colour blocks of colour, I will see how it works in photoshop.

 

 

 

Lastly I had a few minutes and really wanted to show a bit more for the mini exhibition we do at the end of the day, so I found another postcard and copied it on A3 with stick and ink. I did this in 2 minutes. It is obvious who painted the original so I won't insult intelligence, but my version was praised at the pin up. :)



sketch up task 5 not finished

 

Started my sketch up task 5...became carried away...need to go back to the wire frame and stick in photoshop...looks crap but I have zero time this week. Deadlines fo Monday and Ofsted are coming to work next week...all hit zee fan...sos task 5 you will have to suffer.