Pitt Bull and Final crit

Apparently I am a Pitt Bull, so said my 'What dog are you' test...IQ test took too long! I was disappointed to say the least until the description said "Misunderstood by the simple minded but once people get to know you they realise how loveable and fascinating you really are. It may take a second for you to warm up but you are leagues ahead when you do. You are sincere and extremely versatile."

So I am officially a Pitt Bull as that description accurately describes me and therefore is going on my CV!! lol

Back to business:
Final crit...no emotions were running wild for me thank goodness.  I had to go first...wonder if there was rhyme or reason to that? It did mean I couldn't learn from others mistakes (or triumphs) which was a bit annoying as I really wanted to show my models and fluffed that! Oh well, wasn't the final final final...as most of my folders are called!!

This was my wall:

 

It wasn't bad...need to jig it around, make some colour corrections and complete some sequence sketches just to really clarify my ideas...constructions drawings to do any there we have it...

 

Pleased with my models...changed 1:200 to show the Autumn colours so it is really bright which is the seasonal attraction to the park..

Nearly done...then I might lose this crick in my neck, eye strain and hunch back!! It's not attractive!!

Beat the mess...lol

So here is my 'work space' it's a complete mess....after the conversations we had yesterday at penultimate crit...I am not the only one who is living an a work space tip!!!

I have posted mine first...lets see the rest..

 

Yesterdays crit....

Problems with pond colour, looks too much like grass....colour of rendering for plants needs brightening, shadows added, bamboo needs to show, knock back the tree colour, or increase vibrancy on the rest, tables and chairs too prominent, bleed the edge of the plan, move key up, move bar scale an n point, change the benches colour and shape (look like graves!!) very apt...put the line of the curb back in, water in sections and sketches needs changing, new name for meadow...that is not a meadow, annotation needs more sophistication, make grasses bigger, boulder. do the plan rendering without trees to see how the plan balances with colour. Reduce plan to A3 and do a Winter plan...need a lighting scene, either in plan or as a sequential....phew...at least I don't have to completely re-do it!!!! 

 

 

 

 

Painting class

 

Exercises at my painting class below

 

....now full steam ahead, 1:50 plan today and maybe Axo, son's piano exam at 3pm, work tomorrow and Thursday, Sections Friday and sequences Saturday. Putting it all together on Sunday....well that's my timetable....so can't afford to sit here writing!! I will let you know how I did today!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Brown and white acrylic on a piece of cardboard

Charcoal and putty rubber

Charcoal

night lighting

And here is my first attempt at night lighting...its not too bad, could do with a background, but not enough time to faff anymore with it.

Advanced Rep

 

 

Advanced Rep has been a nice experience...although presenting is always a nervous thing...I think the nerves are good, makes you care about what you are doing....The continuous presenting this year has made me more confident at work in the classroom when I am teaching.

 

It is quite strange the perception you have of yourself compared with what others think...It was eye opening in Mondays AD Rep lesson where, randomly picked, was the video of my presentation the previous week. I was very pleased with my performance, even if I fiddled with my ring a couple of times!!

 

 

The logo is a combination of my initials, (ether BS or RS depending on what you call me) and a graphic sunflower that was used many moons ago as the logo for previous business of mine.

The grasses in the back ground look slightly 3d and the flowers are Sanguisorba officinalis

 Front of business card

 Back of business card

 (Shelly thought I should take my teaching qual off there but I want to keep it on)

Letter headed paper

 

Ready to improve?

I haven't found a real style for rendering yet so I am disappointed in my work...Although I managed to complete all the work for the crit on Monday 10.3.14 the quality was poor in my opinion. Quality or complete? that was the question....I chose to complete and had a melt down in the process!!!

Model:

This is the stuff I pinned up but I really wanted to stick notes all over  it saying: (in caps)

 I KNOW I HAVEN'T RENDERED MY SEQUENTIAL SKETCHES PROPERLY oh and I annotated incorrectly..silly mistake at 11pm the night before.....

 I KNOW THE COLOURS ARE CRAP and I KNOW THE TREES ARE NOT DONE PROPERLY ON PLAN Title blocks are too heavy and the key should be on RHS...(not the Royal Horticultural Society as I thought!)lol

....I KNOW THE RENDERING IS CRAP, ..People are too big in B-B
.....Stupidly I didn't put these notes on the work so had the hideous task of presenting without saying all that...if and when I am proud of the work.....presenting will be a doddle...

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: