the new addition at dixter

on monday we were talking about the spirit and feel of a place- great dixter has many levels to its character- one being the presence of their two nutty Dachshund dogs- canna and yucca
sadly, recently dixter lost both of them within a short time of each other, this was particularly sad as these two characters were indeed the children of Christopher Lloyd, and loved by all at dixter (even if you did get a nip or two!)
however the new addition will bring joy back to the temporally quite house of dixter-

-due to arrive on Tuesday 2nd November is - Conifer - here she is:

(the second puppy is due some time next year, )

historic garden conservation - greenwich park

historic garden conservation - Greenwich park:

after our first visit to Greenwich park we created a model to represent our views of the park: some good some bad-
the observatory, giant steps, avenues, materials, Olympics, the river Thames,avenues ,,,,,,

we were then given another group task-to produce a document explaining the natural process layers

each having a different section to cover-

i covered 'buildings and artifacts'

 Greenwich Park:  Natural Process Layers

the next task was to each produce and present an a1 sheet showing the importance of a particular historic layer of Greenwich park-
i covered 20th century Greenwich:

then yesterday we went to the 'Greenwich heritage center', royal arsenal ,woolwich.

here we were able to look threw all the documents, pictures, maps, surveys and books of Greenwich park. with this research we are now creating our statement of significance to present on thursday.

here are the tapestries that illustrate the historic layers of Greenwich:

(sorry about the reflection there was nothing i could do about it unfortunately)

click on them to see a larger size.

some pics from the heritage center:

 - the giant steps

the team  

cartoon of the 'tumbling' at greenwich festival'

plan of greenwich parkwhen avenues were planted



Kelburn castle - The Graffiti Project

Kelburn castle - The Graffiti Project

The castle was to be restored - in the 1960's the castle was covered in a concrete render , however befor the restoration Historic Scotland agreed to hand over the castle to 3 graffiti artists from brazil to cover the concrete render in art untill it was to be removed when they were to remove all the concrete render and graffiti and be replaced with a breathable lime render.

more info : http://www.kelburnestate.com/castle/graffiti_project.asp

here is a video of the process:

photoshop render , , er?

i decided to go abstract on this one,,
just using photoshops layers textures and colour, easy peasy!