The Red House - a poem

The Red House

garden & woodland walk

Quiet space in suburban jungle

Dappled sunlight reaching through

Sound of birdsong, flight of wing

Chatter within old garden walls

Who lived here, what happens now

Does this group of students know?

Treading lightly on the ground

Ghosts of the past follow the sound

Meandering pathways

Shady places

Somewhere to save for new faces

colour swatches

Water colour, pen and watercolour pencil swatches. Scanned and printed to check print colour against the original.

Eye level perspective drawings

These were two minute sketches. This is a belated piece of homework, finally done but not great, I need drawing classes.

First attempts at photoshop

In this first one I tried to cut the girl out from a very light background so the lasso tool didn't work well and I had to try other methods. The edge is very mottled but its a first attempt so I've put it up.












This one Iv'e turned the model into a kind of boat but it doesnt have any shadow so I don't think it really works. More to follow!

Trace of my paper model

This is a trace of the digital print of my paper model. It looks very unexciting as just an outline and needs the interior detail for interest. I scanned the tracing using 400dpi and black & white setting.

sequential sketching

These are sequential sketches we did extremely quickly. I decided after this exercise that I need to concentrate on doing one line instead of several as I sketch.

My initial sketch design

This is my first sketch. I took into account the space, use, planting, heights etc. I was quite pleased with the overall design. A covered walkway and pergola would have had climbers over them to create a quiet, private space. Bamboo in the beds in front would have given privacy from the path and a gentle sound. 

But unfortunately this was followed by several terrible attempts to show what this would look like from above and in detail.

This was supposed to show two people sitting in a lovely covered pergola! A 'refuge' from the world.

First day of final year BA Garden design at Greenwich University

What a day! I found this first day really hard. My initial sketch was o.k and I felt my design was good on plan. BUT trying to turn my design ideas into 3D sketches was terrible. I don't have the artistic skills necessary at all. Something to work on big time.