Visualization Of A Site

I've been playing around with certain tools that are readily available for public use to envision what it might look like to put a sculpture or two of my own design on a piece of land. This site I chose out of what seemed like an accrued life-long awareness of a simple vacancy on the edge of an urban residential subdivision. It's on a bluff over a river with a railroad also squeezed in below and in between. On the other side of the river is the Public Waterworks. So it's all marginal, public land already. It once had a water tower on it. What is left is the concrete base in an octagonal layout.











I imagine it amounts to about five to eight acres that is flat enough to still use as a park for public sculpture.

Other Artists

Every once in a while I go to the Google warehouse looking for influence or drawing tips. I found another artist whose work I'd like to show here, Fred Bartels, "Cardboard Venus"

This can be found in Google Sketchup's warehouse under it's title or his name.

Armature For A One Gallon Egg

Going from the previous sketch diameters I constructed the armature for an egg that will hold one gallon of liquid when it is finished. Having tested the development of half I found that the foamboard was 9/16" thick, not 1/2". I redrew the development this morning and applied the new intersections of the radii to the egg countour, losing one full thickness after nine pieces.









This last photo illustrates how I converted a barstool into a sculpture stand.

Armature Development ~ One Gallon Container

After some thought I have decided to first develop an egg-shaped container that will conveniently hold one gallon of paint. I had to look up a volume formula for an ellipsoid and convert some measurements back and forth. I might go back to metric and refine things a bit. At this point I'm merely happy to develop an armature out of styro-foam that can be found in a home improvement store at 1/2" thick.
Illustrations follow which approximate the measurements I need:



The basic armature.



The short side.



The long side.