Thursday, July 13, 2006

Seminar sketchbook 2

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  From the '97/'98 book. must have been looking at a small waterfeature and stone walkway project with a Japanese Aesthetic. Plus it...

Rumblin', Stumblin' Bumblin'

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So I get an e-mail from Oldroses at Garden Voices which is part of the GardenWeb.com site. Letting me know that she had linked to my site ...
Wednesday, July 12, 2006

A Tale of Two Conceptuals

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  This conceptual uses a design principle called "arc and tangent". Where everything (most things) start out as rectangles and squ...
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Tuesday, July 11, 2006

Sketchbook Rendering

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  A rendering from the old days . . . this was taken out of the '97/'98 seminar sketchbook. I have kept these books since 1988/'...
Monday, July 10, 2006

Squidoo

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Squidoo, what is Squidoo??? exactly what I was thinking when I ran across it in the Pinko marketing Blog . What is the Pinko Marketing Blog?...
Sunday, July 09, 2006

Nature as Teacher (3) Setting Stone

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The unusual alignment of the upright stone really appealed to me. This stone added something to the space that I found very compelling. Tho...
Friday, July 07, 2006

Nature as Teacher (2)

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Root Flare: Look at how beautiful and striking the root flare is . . .really gorgeous. We don't see a lot of that in today's Ameri...
Thursday, July 06, 2006

Nature is the Teacher

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  "When we pick up anything, we find that it is hitched to everything else." ---...
Wednesday, July 05, 2006

Stream, Falls, several years ago

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  Not as happy with this final project-can you guess why??? This was taken about 6 months after completion. The stone is a West Virginia fie...
Saturday, July 01, 2006

A Stream for the residential Waterfeature

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Stream pictured is in it's 3rd season (early), and is coming along nicely. I've found the key is to use as little stone as possible...
Friday, June 30, 2006

Sandstone Slabs

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Here's a few shots thrown together of a few projects that I had put together with some sandstone. The bench in the upper-right is a s...
Thursday, June 29, 2006

Sketchbook sampler

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  Just a little something from the sketchbook. I guess you would call it doodle time. 
Tuesday, June 27, 2006

Concept Drawing leads to project

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Patio, lower landing area, and stone courtyard combined with space to add a spa bring together everything you need for a dynamic outdoor spa...
Monday, June 26, 2006

Doodling a Landscape Rendering

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  This was the simple black line drawing before anything was done.   Rendering after adding some color pencil, decided to just fool around w...
Sunday, June 25, 2006

Land+Living Network

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On the 22nd James Lippincott from Land+Living.com gave me a shout out in his "Clippings" area. I would like to thank James and at ...

Been a few days . . .

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I have actually not seen a computer since Thursday, I had been camping for a few days, so I had been away from posting-obviously. Tomorrow I...
Thursday, June 22, 2006

Conceptual for Campus Entry

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More on this later. Conceptual shows more of a Boulevard look for the campus. Right now it is a simple two-lane road, parallel parking on on...

Opera vs IE, My Personal Browser War

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I have done some tweaking to my sidebar, and made a slight change in the overall layout to the site. After doing this I looked at how this p...
Wednesday, June 21, 2006

"Further"Pergola Study, a Color Rendering

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Rendering above was done with Paint.NET which I spoke about on the 19th. It was done in this style so I could e-mail a color conceptual to...
Tuesday, June 20, 2006

Sphere, searching for blogs.

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Just wanted to make a mention of this web site. Sphere has listed me as one of the most relevant blogs for "Landscape Design". A ...
Monday, June 19, 2006

More on the Entrance, from yesterday.

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I usually do all my thinking on just black line drawings-usually just a Sharpie, red line pencil, or blue lead pencil. Those are my thinkin...
Sunday, June 18, 2006

Rendering for Administrative Entrance

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I don't know, I just don't know . . . . . what really doesn't work for me is the drawing perspective vs. what I see in my head. ...
Friday, June 16, 2006

Further Pergola study

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Another rendering of the site-before any labeling. This is at an angle further back than yesterday's post. Also no embellishment, dots d...
Thursday, June 15, 2006

Rendering to find solutions in Landscape Design

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This is after several attempts at where to start the uprights for the pergola system. This is to act as an entryway into the courtyard of an...