Class excercise last week using torn paper rectangles to create a dynamic composition and a calm composition.

These are first go at my 'History, Archaeology and Patterns of Development' pages for the group work on the Southwark site survey and analysis document.

To make a dynamic composition on A1 from the 3 photoshopped paper sculpture model images, all in an hour. I really enjoy these time limited exercises. Seems to add structure to my thinking.

Paper sculpture excercise. To take 3 minutes to make a sculpture and no more than three hours to put them into a landscape context in photoshop. I used water paper, dark strokes and ink outlines filters.

Concepts for the Metis Garden Festival entry design

The first image is an initial concept sketch in class done while I was thinking about French Canada and how the traditions taken the from the old transfer to the new. Some traditions are proudly retained. Some disintegrate and fall away. I began with this D'argenville's parterre broderie design from which I took a few iconic shapes, creating a simplified parterre design, which I then started to break apart.

Favourite Plants - Agastache 'Black Adder'

Agastache 'Black Adder' in the foreground. What's not to love? Self supporting, drought tolerant, flowers June to October solidly, then looks good over winter, two tone blue, strong form, always covered in butterflies and bees, easy to increase by cuttings. Too evangelical?

Client & Process Eye Level Persepective Views

These are some of the mostly sketchup created perspective views I did for my school assigned client last year. I was quite pleased with the fact that I was able to whip them up in an evening. Not so thrilled that my PC decided that the application of shadows was a step too far. 20/20 hindsight: They are all a bit busy. I needed to spend more time in photoshop and give them more life. Hopefully my new rocketship PC will help.

Client & Process A1 Plan & Aerial Views

I felt pretty happy with these two A1's in January, but I can see the annotation is overdone on the plan view and although I wanted to convey the essential woodland clearing feel that is the sites dominant characteristic on the aerial view, I don't think the sketchup trees are quite right, and they certainly use too much memory.