Our first major review/critique was a week ago. We had to create a drawing/map/collage of the railroad corridor here. Somehow, this is what came out of my research.
My map is showing the growth of the city, which was three-pronged: the city area (where the normal people live), the campus area, and a random third area (in the upper left) that was its own town and eventually annexed into the bigger city.
The streets are made by overlapping the vellum.
The railroad is comprised of a series of pictures of native grasses and plants from the area.
As for a critique/review, that's an interesting process. You stand in front of the class and a few professors and defend your decisions through a series of questions. It's not unlike my old jobs, but somehow more nerve racking.
The final project is approximately 22" x 48" and is on vellum, with ink and Mylar card stock overlays.
06 October 2008
Map of Ames
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4 comments:
what do the circles and curves represent?
which one is the city to the right or the center?
adn
The circles are growth rings - like the rings of a tree. On the right is the original city of Ames. In the middle is the University and the town that grew up around that - the two portions eventually joined together to create modern day Ames. On the left is Ontario, a small community that was annexed into Ames.
Do you know what vellum is? Apparently it's cow uterine lining.BTO
Actually, that's not really true. Ancient vellum was made out of animal hide (generally baby cow but any animal works). Modern vellum (for PEter's purposes and most normal folks) is artificial. Unless you're doing a historic recreation, you generally aren't using the animal product. Modern vellum is a plastic/paper mix - and we can debate how good/bad that is for recycling and other reasons. But, not animal and not uterine.
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