Feeling inspired?
Posted: Thu Jan 15, 2015 10:15 am
One thing that stokes my fires a bit is finding pictures of Japanese study groups and their completed projects. This is a recent gathering of 20 people working on a roof model which combines hip roof, curved hip, fan and parallel rafters, and a splayed post stand:
That seems to be the standard study model these days for more advanced students.
While this material is a few levels above where the last mailing left off, it is really not so far away actually. We already have covered the splayed post work and regular straight hip, along with treatment of a skewed common rafter, which is the precursor to the fan rafter study. The next model planned was to be a second straight regular hip, where we can explore variations on the theme, with different joinery. From there, exploration can go in a couple of different directions. We could continue with regular plan hips and look at curving the hip. We could keep the hip straight and look at fan rafters. We could move into polygons, starting with polygon hopper, then polygon splayed post, then polygon hip. The latter is the direction I thought it would be best to go. After polygons, then irregular slope work, in a similar progression of problems, and finally curved work.
All of the above may be moot as the membership in the drawing study is perilously low at the moment, with but 2 members close to being current with the material. Still, I'm feeling inspired, and intend to continue the work at producing the drawing study material one way or another. It would be so cool if twenty people could get together outside of Japan and engage in the same study. It doesn't seem like an impossible dream....
That seems to be the standard study model these days for more advanced students.
While this material is a few levels above where the last mailing left off, it is really not so far away actually. We already have covered the splayed post work and regular straight hip, along with treatment of a skewed common rafter, which is the precursor to the fan rafter study. The next model planned was to be a second straight regular hip, where we can explore variations on the theme, with different joinery. From there, exploration can go in a couple of different directions. We could continue with regular plan hips and look at curving the hip. We could keep the hip straight and look at fan rafters. We could move into polygons, starting with polygon hopper, then polygon splayed post, then polygon hip. The latter is the direction I thought it would be best to go. After polygons, then irregular slope work, in a similar progression of problems, and finally curved work.
All of the above may be moot as the membership in the drawing study is perilously low at the moment, with but 2 members close to being current with the material. Still, I'm feeling inspired, and intend to continue the work at producing the drawing study material one way or another. It would be so cool if twenty people could get together outside of Japan and engage in the same study. It doesn't seem like an impossible dream....