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Week 2 reflection Blog

Oscar Bush 2nd Weekly Reflection 5/22/22 Having just wrapped up week two of senior project, I feel proud of my progression as a designer and my abilty to stay on track with the goals we set for ourselves. This week we have focuses mainly on sketching and I am seeing the progress in both Elijah and my work. On Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday, we ended up taking field trips. I am starting to notice that all of our visits started with sketching out the property soon after we entered. It is clear that the ability to transer the main features of your surrounding quickly onto paper is important in design, and especially design observation. Our visit to McGill University was truly a unique experience where we were able to spend time with a renowned astro physicist and she genuinely was interested in our opinions regarding design. We walked the premises of her building, and one of the architect she hired, pointing out design features that David told us to look for. I was pleasantly surprised by ...
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Day 12 Senior Project Blog

  Blog #12 Oscar Bush, May 24th Seemingly out of nowhere, we have arrived at the last day of Senior Project! Elijah and I woke up at 8:00 am ready to grind out the final details of Senior Project. We would have to leave at 3:30 pm for Proctor so we decided to get right to work. At 9:00 we spent an hour doing our last warm up sketch session and reflecting over last night’s film with David. Beginning to stress about Express Fest, Elijah and I took the rest of the day to make a posterboard and plan what our table would look. For hours we reflected over our work and what we had learned. I thought this to be the perfect way to spend our final hours, really capping off our experience. At 3:00 pm we frantically cleaned up the house wanting to leave it cleaner than we left it, and were out the door by 3:30pm. Four hours later we were pulling ion to proctor saying high to the fellas thus ending my Senior Project Experience. 6 hours counting the 5 hours of express fest stuff
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Day 11 Senior Project Blog

  Blog #11 Oscar Bush, May 23 We started this Monday off at with a huge pancake and omelette breakfast curtasy of Elijah’s mom. Because the 23rd is Victoria Day, (a Candian holiday) we would be working from home. At 11:00 am we started with our typical warmup sketches, focusing on negative space today sketching the emtpty space surrounding an object. We then took two hours from 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm to go grab some lunch at A&W and to pick up some poster board for our Express Fest presentation. At 3:00pm we returned to the house and accepted the challenge of sketching two very artistic lighting fixtures hanging from the kitchen and front hall. It took us about two hours to reach a final product. We finished our 11th day off with a viewing of Dark City directed by Alex Proyas a t around 6:30 pm. We made sure to take notes during the film for our discussion with David the next day. 6 hours
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Day 8 Senior Project Blog

  Blog #8 Oscar Bush, May 18th Wednesday was our biggest sketching day yet. We started with a whopping 2.5 hours of sketching warmup. We switched it up a little today by putting parchment paper over schematics of the mall, traced it, and practiced making changes. We essentially spent all day drawing until from 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm we ate sushi at a nearby restaurant. From 2:00 to 5:00 we did 3-D plexiglass drawings and watched another episode of Abstract the art of design. We packed up our things at the end of the work day and hopped on the bus home, finishing up another good day at the office. 5 hour 30 minutes
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Day 10 Senior Project Blog

  Blog 10 Oscar Bush, May 20th This Friday began with sending off Elijah to his Macabia, Team Canada basketball practice in Toronto. I would be working from Elijah’s house today while David was away in Cleveland, dealing with a family health problem. I started my sketching at 11:30 am and continued on until 1:00 pm. I worked on contour drawings, and gestures drawings this morning. After a 30 minutes lunch break I resumed my work day watching a Frank Ghery Masterclass and keeping active notes. My main take away from the episodes assigned to me was that when you choose to pursue the arts you are stating that your lens on the world is valuable. You must believe that to your core despite negative feedback if you should ever succeed. Learn from feedback but take into account every aspect of it, like who is telling you that? Are they who you want to become? I then cracked out two episodes of Abstract the Art of Design, ending around 5 O’clock. I gave myself an hour off to work out before...
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Day 9 Senior Project Blog

  Blog #9 Oscar Bush, May 19th On Thursday morning we woke up at the Sochacjevski country house. We made the roughly 1-hour 30-minute drive up there the night before so that Elijah could get some basketball work in before he left for Toronto. Although we would not be going to the office that day David had not let us off the hook. He assigned us the task of cutting the entire (probably 10 bedroom) house in half lengthwise and sketching it. We started with our usual sketching exercises which were fun as ever, then spent the next hours walking the house trying to wrap our heads around how to put every doorway, wall, and window onto our sketchpads. By the time 3:30 snuck around we packed our things and made the trip back to Montreal. When we returned Elijah and I whipped up some dinner, dressed up, and headed to his little sister’s Glee show. The show was surprisingly really good and Elijah and I made sure to loudly voice our support. 6 hours 30 minutes
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Day 7 Senior Project Blog

Blog #7 Oscar Bush, May 18th This Tuesday we got started at 8:30 am and got right to work on our sketching warm ups. We started with a couple contour drawings but moved up to gesture drawings and David gave us another lesson on how we could improve. I probably cranked out 15-20 gesture drawing until 11:30 am when we switched over to designing our bridge and the adjacent walla design. We made some progress and elijah designed a really cool wooden light fixture. By 1:45 pm David surprised us with another field trip. His friend, Victoria Kaspi, an award winning canadian astrophysicist, and professor at McGill College and was overseeing a huge renovation on her builing. Not knowing the first thing about how to talk to the architects or what she even wanted in the building she called David and the architecture boys for help. We arrived at the McGill an hour and a half early so that we would have more time to sketch the beautiful campus. I layed out the theatre department, Sketched a sculptu...
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