Late last week I worked up three concept drawings to test the waters for viable ideas on a new project. I posted two of the concept ideas in the last couple of days. The third idea was a lost dinosaur civilization theme. Various large stone sculptures and monuments would be embedded deep into a dense jungle landscape. One quick drawing was done to pitch the concept. It is great fun to work up blue sky concepts to ponder the endless possibilities. Next week we will get a reaction back from the client and these or other ideas will be fleshed out into a full blown design for a good sized project. We are looking forward to the challenge!
Visiting the past for a future project
We are exploring a bunch of concepts with a new client. One of the themes we are looking at is a idea first explored more than fifteen years ago for a project that never got past preliminary design. When the project languished I tucked those sketches away for further reference. Good ideas never go bad. With this new project now in the exploratory stage I dug up the old material and picked some of my favourite bits and then whipped up this quick concept as a teaser. The project may well proceed or it may possibly go back to the idea file and perhaps surface once again in the future. Time will tell.
Magical mud
The shop was busy today as we troweled our magic concrete mix over four more arches for the bowling alley. There was two buckets of the magical mix left over and so I troweled it onto the post for the Spring Horse Farm sign. Then at just the right moment we sculpted the curing mud into plaster, rocks and bricks. The post mud was made to look like some gnarly twisted wood grain. It's all in a day's work. there was still time for a little designing, a little painting and some welding too.
