This was from the sketchbook(moleskine), and was done on-site so I could show the contractor what I was thinking about in reference to the space.
The idea for the space was to add a waterfall and a small body of water right up near the pool’s edge. The drawing in black and white was good for [...]
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It’s been awhile since we posted on one of my most favorite subjects-stone.
I thought I would remedy that with this image of a waterfall and stream bed of one of my former design projects. The job was installed in 2006 and I snapped the picture early last week.
[ Edge stone buried in help sell realism. [...]
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Posted in stone, waterfalls, tagged Ash Cave, Hocking Hills on November 25, 2007 | 1 Comment »
[ Ash Cave in SE Ohio during the Summer season. ]
This is a perfect example of Blackhand Sandstone. The sandstone at the top of the formation is harder than the lower stone. Causing this wear pattern where the lower stone wears away leaving this spectacular overhang.
This unique formation of sandstone is called Ash Cave a [...]
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[ This little stream was the #1topic. ]
A couple of post back I talked about the workshop I held on designing and building waterfeatures and of all the jobs we looked on this day the above stream was easily the most discussed waterfeature.
The workshop attendees had me go into great detail about how this job [...]
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When most folks think of Niagara Falls; it’s images like this, we think of.
[Bridal Veil Falls overlook,on the American side.]
I very much enjoyed the visit, we spent a full day on the Canadian side, and close to a full day on the American side. What I feel fortunate about is all the small waterfeatures we [...]
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Back tonight from a week long trip to Canada, a few days in Hamilton for the workshops,and then off and about to look at several other places. This includes some “vacation” time in Niagara Falls.
“Niagara Falls . . . slowly I turned, step-by-step”. Do you recognize this quote?
More later, on the trip and impressions of [...]
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“Selling the Illusion” . . .
A while back I got into a Blog conversation with Kim over at Blackswamp Girl(great name) about Home Shows and the views, and the gardens, and a little of what goes into creating a look to capture those in attendance.
Having done many a home show in [...]
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This weeks stone comes from a waterfall I built a couple of years ago in Omaha, Nebraska for a photography studio. The stone is typical Colorado fieldstone.
To give you an idea of scale the falls is very close to 7.0ft high. and that’s about 3.0ft across the top. The double falls starts with 2 upflow [...]
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posted, 10/03/06
A Waterfall Rendering-selling stone.
These 2 landscape renderings were drawn into my sketchbook on the job site. Normally I make a few notes, shoot a lot of pictures, and just absorb the site. Then I go back and draw something up on the board to present to the client, during the conceptual meeting.
Here . [...]
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Posted in waterfalls, waterfeatures on December 21, 2006 | No Comments »
posted, 08/25/06
This is a continuation of yesterdays post. This set of little falls is a little further along the waterfeatures path.
The one thing I would like to point out here is notice how the 1st falls, falls directly into a pool of water and the second falls lands directly onto a splash stone. These two [...]
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