Monticello & Fallingwater (extra credit)

I was intrigued by the design of both Monticello and Fallingwater but the most fascinating to me was definitely Fallingwater.  Just by being built over a waterfall made viewing the house absolutely breathtaking. The cantilevered design allowed the views from inside the house to be completely unobstructed and gave the house its very modern appearance. One of my favorite elements was all of the stone Frank Lloyd Wright used in the house, connecting the house to its setting in nature. Knowing that almost all of the interior elements were designed by Wright and getting to view them was an amazing experience, and I appreciated how well everything tied in with the house itself.  I enjoyed all of the history of Monticello and thoughtfulness Thomas Jefferson put into the home, but Fallingwater was my favorite because of its beautiful, detailed, and modern design.

here is a rough sketch of the main floor of the house:

Material Value Studies

Final Compostions

For this assignment, I began practicing drawing the materials in my sketchbook in both pencil and pen. By paying lots of attention to detail using photos I took of my materials, my wood, fabric and tile studies turned out very successfully. I had trouble drawing the lines for my carpet study softly enough, but revised my technique to make my lines less harsh and more soft and organic. As I moved on to the final composition, the drawings became much more tedious and time consuming than anticipated (especially the fabric at 1"=1'0" scale), but after much judgement I managed to create a successful transition from dark to light in each of my studies. 

Wood: Hand-Scraped Hickory (Bourbon, Renee Chaput)

Tile: Fritztile, Pearl Gray (White Matrix)

                              

Fabric: HBF Textiles, Andante Encore (846-11 Crema)

Carpet: Sistaltile 2 (101 Speagrass)

Color Week

Color week (also known as color bootcamp) was an exciting week of learning about color alignment and creating compositions using 220 hues of Color-Aid paper. 

The colorful hallway: classmates' work on display

2 colors with a middle mix in between 

2 "overlapping" colors and their middle mix

4 colors with a shade in the center and their middle mixes

After the first two compositions, I got used to cutting the color-aid paper and learned how to dry mount; my craft improved a lot. 

3 triangles with their three-way mix

Color Palette

An abstract, artistic composition of spring, summer, fall and winter using the colors from my palette.

my body of work from the week

New Blog Header

I decided to do a hand-drawn blog header because I am not yet comfortable with Photoshop or other similar programs and I thought this would be a good opportunity to work on my drawing as well. I have always loved to create and doodle patterns when I get bored so I thought why not invent a pattern that represents myself as a designer. I have always loved damask-style patterns that are very elegant and classic but this pattern is very whimsical and fun to me which could describe myself as well. I was inspired by the pattern on my comforter in my room but I decided to do my own take on a damask pattern. The Lucinda Handwriting font was the most appealing to me on Microsoft Word probably because it is very pretty yet casual at the same time. It reminds me somewhat of my own cursive handwriting, which I thought would be a good reflection of myself.