The section/plan in perspective/photo collage went through a couple itterations before it emerged as its current state.
It started out as one photo. Not collaged. Just cut through with the section lines. But, that was too simple and easy.
So then, I started coloring the section lines black and altering their thicknesses to emphasize different parts. However, the lines looked sloppy. So that was another no.
This happened instead. A collage of photos to make one space with all important lines cut from it in plan and section. All of the line weights are the same. Hand drawn on the rest of the sheet are the remaining lines of the plan (i.e. topography lines). I'm happy with how it turned out.
The wire was probably the physically hardest thing to deal with. Since it's packaged in a spool, it has a tendancy to return to its round state. Unfortnately, I wanted it straight.
It started out a mess. Believe it or not, those lines actually do mean something.
The end product is an axon drawing of part of the site. Still challenging to get it to bend the way I want it to.
Moving on to the other drawdel. It's an emphasis on the trees that are in the area I chose and how they change the space.
For reference, the plan is drawn in the top left with all trees marked with an "x."
Finally, we get to the wax drawing without paper.
First of all, wax is awesome to watch melt. Slow. But awesome.
Step one: make a mold. Fill it in ONE POUR. Otherwise it is lumpy:
Step two: peel away the sides!
Woo! Looks so clean and perfect, right?
Step three: peel away the rest! Should be easy, since the sides were just a piece of cake.
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Ok, so we try with lots of little molds with different combinations of foam core, hot glue, Elmers, cooking spray, canola oil, etc.
Clearly, most of the trials were unsuccessful. What is bad about wax is that you can NOT leave pieces of glue or foam core or whatever attached to the wax before you remelt it. Because they will be forever in your pan of wax. Annoying.
The winning combination: hot glue that does not leak out the sides to build the mold, smother all cracks and edges with Elmers glue and let it dry completely. Bathroom hand driers are phenomenal for those of us who are impatient. Finally, spray the whole thing with cooking spray.
Voila!
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