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Researcher into the Commodified Housing Market (by annoyance), Landscape Architect (by profession), Bricklayer (by trade) and Dyslexic (by accident of birth).

Sequence or Rhythm?…. as long as it’s got that swing

Well I am sure I am not the only one who struggled with this. Enjoyed thinking about space and placement etc, but is it Rhythm? Only when i reached the last two I came to a conclusion, rhythm is a sequence, but lots of them. Sequence is part of the rhythm picture/groove. I purposely did not look at a dictionary to see if i could work it out by doing and thinking. Am I wrong? Find out Monday, oh it is already! Not a plane crash if I am wrong, enjoyed the challenge, the journey and all that.
Thinking about the Funky Drummer and how i could draw the beat in 8 squares (emphasis on the 4th beat according to James Brown, who am I to argue))
I have come to the conclusion they are all sequence apart from no 9

1 2
                                                  
3 4
               Autumn sycamore          Space Lab
 5 6
                                                         Traffic
       7
       Butterflys
 8
  8 is the strongest in my opinion. Had the thought of ‘The Machine Age’ and a certain scene from the film ‘Metropolis’ (silent and made i think in the twenty’s). Not the kind of film that would go down to well with your Torygraph reading ‘T Wellian’.
9

Rendering..good or bad?

Its not modern (1945) and its not clever, but i really like the simplicity of it. Back to my Janet and John view of T/Wells. The simplicity means that the idea is immediate rather than trying to look past fancy rendering covering up an average design (i am very much speaking to my self here). i am not saying i like the utilitarian design (form follows function), but there is a certain honesty about it. Plus the instructive Gill Sans font, very ‘KEEP OFF THE GRASS’.
Or am i talking blather?

Harry Wingfield illustrated books of the period, very idealistic. 

A4 Quick Sketch Designs.. a bit mad.

A couple of sketch designs, a quick style with pro markers, and some photoshop filters to make it look a bit more abstract.
As for doing a proper m/plan still not found a style, but i don’t really like the realistic look at it dictates whereas an abstract style adds atmosphere (depending on the style of abstraction or should it be impression, well you get my point).
 
 

Line Path

 Had a go and understood the more i did it. A hilly bit of woodland. The feel rather depends on the time of year. Summer hard, compacted and dusty. Winter wet, slippery or rock hard. Seasons colours, sounds and smells. All very poetic, but relevant.

Had a thought about a windy day. A lot to remember for future surveys.

Fat Controller

Images taken from my own photo’s plus some web images. A bit of wine seems to make things flow a bit easier.
Images cut out and pasted in PS, very quick. Quite a bit of time on the Transform tool. Warp, Perspective and Skew. Some blur on the edges and reduction on opacity on steam.

 Flattened, Cutout, and poster and general playing. Played around with the roof and made it worse. If it ain’t broke and all that.

More playtime. Added line and mucked about with shadows and brightness. The idea to get the image to join together. Ok a bit abstract but the brain fills in the gaps or is that just me???

Took away the edges to reveal the construction, more movement in it. Red to draw the eye, etc

Conclusion, a bit of fun but need to watch the clock a bit. 3 hours for that lot.

First set Pro marker plus photoshop

I started with the promarker route plus photoshop as i wanted to see if i could do them quick. 20 mins for the basic, then another hour for the rest (more about experimenting). If i follow that style it could be quick it depends on whether its too scrappy.
Promarker, and .3 and .5 felt pens.
Various, cutout plus poster plus gold style with some colour burn (grr tiger).
Black and white option, pencil, and 2 layers of black/grey.

Calverley Park

I had some work in TW recently and wandered down to the said park. Took a load of pictures with my new camera(old camera’s broken, a case of built in obsolescence from Sony), so it was not such a bind with a new toy that is way beyond my abilities.

To the point, Those who are going to TW on Monday and don’t know the place some tasters

TW, Materiality
 http://gallery.me.com/hixondesign#100646&bgcolor=black&view=grid

Calverley Park
 http://gallery.me.com/hixondesign#100639&bgcolor=black&view=grid

Panorama’s (the best pics to get an idea of the park)
 http://gallery.me.com/hixondesign#100656&bgcolor=black&view=grid

Feel free to nick, er, download any pics that catch eye. All at full resolution so be patient on the download.

Cheers