January & February 2008

Late February Some Additional Ribbon Like Artwork 

More experiments with projecting textures onto ribbon like geometry.

2-22-2008 Some SketchUp Artwork 

These are all different images of the same model. It's an experiment... a design adventure.

2-22-2008 Images of my Submission to the OAN African Challenge

The Open Architecture Network is sponsoring a design challenge for three different sites. I submitted a design for the site in Kenya. I learned quite a bit from putting this proposal together. It made me realize how much I don't know. :-)

2-1-2008 More Non-Representational Work

Produced the following images this week while continuing to explore the possibilities of projecting textures onto complex SketchUp geometry. Some of these are really quite visually interesting.

1-27-2008 Painting with SketchUp

If you project a texture image at an angle onto a TIN surface, the color that shows on the surface can be altered by using the Smoove tool to raise or lower the surface. This can feel almost like finger painting... and the results are ... unfortunately ... also like finger paintings.

Small changes in the angle of the face holding the projected texture (or using the Texture/Position tools) can have a major effect on the image projected on the TIN.  Following are some examples. The final two images in this set are a little different. They are from models in which textures are projected onto shapes extruded along complex paths. More sculptural than painting.

1-25-2008 A New Year

It has been over a month since I've added any new work. I was sick with a bad cold for about two weeks and then was busy with my job, so for the past four weeks I just wasn't able to spend much time on design explorations. With a new computer (24" iMac) -which is much faster than the Mac Mini that was my workhorse for two plus years- I hope to push forward into lots of new territory this year. Following are four images of models built using this delightful new machine.