Over the last couple of days we've had plenty of time to talk about ideas and draw lots of quick sketches for the next project. Many details are still top secret but the concept and story are quickly coming into focus. The story begins thus... Once upon a time there was a magical garden, quite unlike any other. In this garden...
Blue sky dreaming
We are at the BLUE SKY stage of a new project. We have a firm commitment and budget for a wonderful design and are at the very beginnings of a job where we first set pencil to paper. Anything is possible at this stage. The realities of tight budgets, space limitations, engineering and timetables are still down the road. This is the time to explore ideas. It's a wonderful time of dreaming and drawing a boatload of concepts as we pull a theme together and work up a presentation to show the client. It's a fun and exciting time. Peter and I toss ideas back and forth until we settle on a theme and story. Then we sketch out vignettes for each area and slowly it all comes together. Along the way there will be many, many changes, some ideas will be tossed and others added. Hundreds of quick scribbles will gel down to about forty finished concept drawings for this project. The first scribbles are quickly filling a sketchbook. Here's just one page from my book as a hint. This is going to take a while...
Last name plates for workshops
As always there were a flurry of changes and last minute sign-ups for the Sculpture Magic Workshops. The first one is sold out but there may yet be another name or two to make for the second if someone else fills the remaining seats. But today I created the last two name plaques of those currently signed up to come. Becke is doing an awesome job of painting and gilding the plaques and I'll be posting pictures of them in the next few days. Stay tuned...
