Posts tagged dansnowart

Modeling Clay as a Medium for Design Development

Clay sketches are the instruments of communication I use to express ideas. The truthfulness of any idea is uncovered by thinking and working it through using three-dimensional materials. With clay, a concept forms through the fingers. Questions about a design come up in the activity of applying clay that might not otherwise be addressed until a project is underway. Solving problems in small scale is more easily done than at the full scale of a construction site.

Art, Dry Stone, Dry Stone Walling, StoneDan SnowJuly 7, 2018dan snow, dan snow stoneworks, dansnowartworks, dansnowart, modeling clay, stone terrace design, stone, dry stone walling, clay sketch, 3D sketch

The Solitary Stoneworker

Conditions being what they were of late with snow storm after snow storm, I stayed away from the stone project in-progress and gave myself a propertyless assignment. The premise was to compile a collection of photos that illustrate the work life of a solitary stoneworker; with myself as the subject and past projects as the source material.