18th of November

Evening gang, crazy how close christmas is coming up wouldnt you say? but thats not why we are here, we are here for cold hard facts on blacksmithing and life.

Finally finished my essay, polishing it all over next weekend before i send it off. SO now thats out the way its full on DD time, done a fair bit of drawing and more importantly thinking about how i am going to put it together.

This was some sampling i did to try and get myself into the flow of drawing the last few days, it was working on what Adrian was talking about and looking at connections and how i would go about connecting up these massive leaves to the stalk. These were helpful but i needed some more solid to look at so i went and got.

I went and found a picture of the ferns from Berrington that was close in enough to really study the connections. It seems to peel away from the main leaf almost like a sudden jut outwards, i got to thinking how i would go about making this connection in steel, then i thought to myself about the 3DSP work with have been doing and all the fire welding i have been doing with steve.

Ths was just a really quick sketch of my idea on fire welding the pieces together.

I started doddling some more about the overall shape and look of it together and whether i indeed wanted to have two or just the one.

What i came out from the drawings, i dont want alot of overlap, i dont want it too far apart that it makes the space look empty but i really dont want loads of overlap so it looks too crowded. I am starting to think that two plants made up will start to look a little crowded. The second image really showed me that i dont want that cheeky overlap.

This is a image i drew to try and get the design in my head, i am thinking i will make this by splitting a large bar down the center, draw out the ends shape them then fire weld the end. The loss of materail from the fire weld will work in my favor making the tips seems smaller and more elegant in comparisons of the base.

After all the descions today i decided to make up a large maybe full sized drawing of my idea, i really got alot from this because it meant working on placement of the leaves. Whether i wanted them unique or i want repition across the length of it. I really like the drawing itself, i need to get it transfered onto a large piece of wood or steel so i can start working on proportoins and such.

Again alot to think about in here.