It's Thanksgiving break now, so I get a whole week at home! This doesn't necessarily mean that I get a whole week away from doing work.
There's still the Art History term paper, which I'm creating a second generation Gothic style chapel for. The assignment is to create a fictional building that would have been built during one of the time periods we have covered.
For studio I'm going to make a plan and perspective of my model along with notes about my client and the inventory of the collection of measuring instruments. Here's a picture of my model:
There's the person that's six feet tall in there, so the room isn't that big. I exaggerated the ceiling because it's flat in reality, but I wanted people to see what would be painted on the ceiling. It's tough to see in the picture, but I made it look like the columns and wall supports continued far upward when the model is viewed from a certain angle. This goes back to the sidewalk artwork that looks like there is something there, but really it's just a flat surface. Photos of the plan and perspective will be put up by Saturday.
So, the next week and a half are going to be extremely busy. The reasons I haven't been posting quite as often are as follows: trying to cope with the amount of architecture work I've been given, playing soccer a little bit, eating, sleeping, and Tetris (don't laugh, it gets my mind off of my list of things to worry about for a few minutes of the day). I'm still thinking about how to fit laundry into the schedule, but it's taking a back seat right now (don't worry now, I'm still wearing clean clothes, I'm just running low on them).
For studio, I've been working on another cardboard and balsa wood model like the one I posted pictures of last time, and it has to be finished by class today. This one is more "final" in that the design stage of this project is over. It's pretty much off to the races now to make that model, a mock-up of a part of what the real final model will look like with all the correct materials such as bass wood, glass, etc. That will be due on Friday. Then, a week from Friday will be the due date for the model accompanied by a plan of the room and at least one well drawn perspective.
Good for everyone who's reading these, that means that there are going to be more pictures! Also, I found where to scan my work that I've done on paper, so higher quality images of those are to come, which means that they will be going on my e-portfolio site!
Well, studio has been pretty busy for the past couple days (I was up until 5:00 a.m. Wednesday morning!). My section's current professor can be kind of vague when outlining the project, so it wasn't until a couple days ago when I finally came up with what the room might look like for my collector of measuring instruments. Here are a couple pictures:
Above is the plan of the model. To be honest, I think this looks pretty cool with the perspective behind it.
So, the entirety of last week was full of working on the annual first year architecture Halloween Parade with a friend of mine, studying for Art History, and trying to get some studio time in between. If you're interested in how my Halloween Parade went, here's the video (I'm from the land of red and white). I still have to work on studio models and my art history paper, so there's still much to do.
So, the past week has been full of movie nights, studio, wood shop, and studying. That didn't leave much time for anything else. Here's a little something that I worked on in wood shop:
The edges are square, I just tried to crop out the background because the picture was a little crooked. Anyway, I made the frame and box myself here. The depth of the bottom is 2", and the depth of the top is 10". The assignment for studio is to design a room for a collector, and we were allowed to choose our client. Mine is a collector of measuring instruments. I decided to focus more on distance and length instruments. This box represents how measuring distance is relative, meaning that distance depends on how each person perceives it. I didn't have enough time to finish this yet, but hopefully it will come together some time in the future. What I like about the box is that it actually looks like the X's go back into the distance.
My professor calls perspective drawings "lies" because really it's just a flat, 2 dimensional piece of paper that slanted lines are drawn on. Here's a collage of some cool sidewalk art pieces that fool the eye into thinking that there's actually depth on a flat surface:
The trick to these is that you have to be looking at them at just the right spot, or else the art will appear horribly distorted. Here's a comparison between looking at a piece from the right and wrong angles:
So, I've got a few tests coming up. It doesn't help that all classes coordinate their test dates within the same week. There's a GEOG 122 (American Scene-basically U.S. history without the government) test on Friday the 23rd, a GEOG 160 (Mapping Our Changing World) test on Tuesday the 27th, and ART H 201 (Ancient to Medieval Architecture) is Friday the 30th, with the essay portion due the following Monday.
I'd be lying if I said I'm prepared for any of them. Well, time to get my act together and focus on those. The next post will be more about architecture things.
It was due at 5:30 yesterday, and I think I did a solid job with it.
Unfortunately, the image is a little bit blurry, but you can make it out pretty well. I purposely didn't render the left side, and you can see the Palazzo Vecchio way in the back. The plan of the Uffizi and Palazzo is lightly penciled in also.
By the way, grades were given back for studio. I've got an A so far! I'm at a 92%, so I need to keep that up.
Above is the plan of the model. To be honest, I think this looks pretty cool with the perspective behind it.
The edges are square, I just tried to crop out the background because the picture was a little crooked. Anyway, I made the frame and box myself here. The depth of the bottom is 2", and the depth of the top is 10". The assignment for studio is to design a room for a collector, and we were allowed to choose our client. Mine is a collector of measuring instruments. I decided to focus more on distance and length instruments. This box represents how measuring distance is relative, meaning that distance depends on how each person perceives it. I didn't have enough time to finish this yet, but hopefully it will come together some time in the future. What I like about the box is that it actually looks like the X's go back into the distance.
