Day 5 Senior Project Blog

 Blog #5 

Oscar Bush, May 13th


David allowed us to roll in late today at 10:30 am this Friday. We got right to work and continued our practice with sketching 3-D images of our hands through plexi glass. For some reason today I just couldn’t get my fingers to look human so we moved on to contour drawing a plant. The goal of this was not to even make our sketch look like a plant, but it was to focus only on a specific part of the plant and move your pencil along the page as your eyes move across the plant. The hardest part was to stay disciplined and keep from peaking at the page. At 12:30 pm we had some sushi with Elijah’s brother John and even during that time David had us sketch out the schematics of a Japanese style dinner table. Once we had finished our sketches we went right out the door to check out the “Mary Queen of the World Cathedral”, and the Sunlife building and park down the block. On our walk David gave us a lesson on columns and how to differentiate them, the Sunlife Building was a perfect model to look at. David left us at the Cathedral and Elijah and I spent a long while laying out the enormous cathedral and sketching statues. By far this building was the most beautiful i’ve seen this trip. We left and attempted to get to the top of the Sunlife Building which was highly secure as David warned us. We ended up getting stuck in the stairwell and having to walk all 40 flights down to the bottom. Not yet defeated, we then sat in the adjacent park and attempted to sketch an insane looking bridge until the 90 degree heat won the battle and we retreated to the mall at 3:00 pm. We had a relaxing rest of the day and watched the “Architect and the Painter” until we left at 5:15 pm.

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  1. Kelly Griffin-BrownMay 16, 2022 at 9:28 AM

    Sounds like a great time! Learning a lot! Don't forget to add project hours and project total hours to your blog post.

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  2. Kyle ConnollyMay 17, 2022 at 7:58 AM

    Pictures! Show us what me what you're seeing so I can live vicariously through you and pretend I'm back in the mother country.

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