As part of our PLOT JOY campaign, our Founding Principal TJ Marston shared her
Urban Sketching tips and tricks every Wednesday over the month of April. In her latest post, TJ gave her insight on how to safely sketch on location as well as some new materials she is testing.. If you can go outside safely we encourage you to step out and find a spot to sketch! I chose an iconic ice cream shop in my neighborhood called Wall’s Ice cream. It’s a great shop that has a variety of flavors that is great for the kids! I chose a place that I knew wasn’t going to have a lot of people due to quarantine. I bought my big sketch book, as well as white wristband in order to clean my used brushes as I work. I brought my watercolor set with all my pans (check out my previous post about choosing the best colors for your palette.) I also brought a small pencil pouch, with some pencils, my white gel pen that I use sometimes for highlights, a waterbrush which holds water and has a brush at the end, an eraser, two micropens, and an extra brush. Tip 01: Do a thumbnail sketch first to test the composition and to get warmed up. Tip 02: Don’t worry about mistakes, draw over them! Tip 03: Paint similar color areas first. Tip 04: Simplify complicated background scenes. Tip 05: Build in shadows after the first layer dries completely. Tip 06: Add additional details later using reference photos. Tip 07: Listen to site audio recordings while you sketch from home. Like, share, comment, and tag us on instagram @plotstudioland and @tj_Marston if you love seeing our urban sketching videos.
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As part of our PLOT JOY campaign, our Founding Principal TJ Marston shared her
Urban Sketching tips and tricks every Wednesday over the month of April. In her latest post, TJ gave her insight on how to choose your watercolor palette from various brands. Throughout your watercolor journey, you’re likely going to want to create your own palette, with your own preferences. With that in mind, I want to share some standards that you should consider when creating your own watercolor palette. Tip 01: Use a color wheel. A color wheel serves a guide when choosing colors for your palette. The best thing to do is to have more primaries in your palette, that way you can create more secondary colors. More variety of primary colors, means more variety of secondary colors. Cooler colors on the color wheel go towards the blues, while the warmer colors go towards the reds. Tip 02: Pick warm and cool versions of each primary color. This way you have more control over how vibrant your colors are. For example, to create a vibrant orange you could mix a warmer yellow and a warm red. Tip 03: Use a pigment color wheel to identify color hue (cool vs. warm.) You can download a pigment color wheel from handprint.com. This is a great tool to see if a color you buy from the store is a cool hue or a warm hue. Tip 04: Fill your palette with primary colors. Tip 05: Add convenient colors. Tip 06: Study and get to know different pigments and brands. Tip 07: Get to know your colors through swatching. Like, share, comment, and tag us on instagram @plotstudioland and @tj_Marston if you love seeing our urban sketching videos. Today our Principal Espe Kelly will be sharing some of her favorite tools for creating her around the world dishes. She will also share some recipes that she thought would be so hard but were surprisingly easy.
She's back......... from eating around the world at home to share a few more of her latest meals. We have been traveling now for about 5 weeks and each day when we think we where do we go today we are amazed at how many places we have never been to eat This past week we went to some cool places like Myanmar aka Burma and Japan. Wow some goof food there.
As part of our PLOT JOY campaign, our Founding Principal TJ Marston will be sharing her Urban Sketching tips and tricks every Wednesday over the next 30 days. This week TJ shared an in depth look at the materials she recommends for anyone looking to get started (using ink and watercolor).
You can find a copy of her Material List below and an in depth video where she explains each supply. Hey Everyone!
As we write this it is currently over one month into our social distancing quarantine since the COVID-19 pandemic started. This is a time of survival. Many of us are struggling. We live in fear constantly. We are lonely, struggling to connect to our friends, family and colleagues. We are overwhelmed, taking care of others in our home or in our places of work. As a creative industry, this can really take its toll on us emotionally and on our work. Its normal to struggle emotionally. Its normal to have this effect your work. Its hard to motivation and creativity in times like these. "Common Ground" was the theme for this year's American Society of Landscape Architects Florida Conference held on July 11-13th in Orlando, Florida. It did not disappoint! The conference was packed with three days of captivating keynote presentations, award winning student and professional work and thoughtful discussions on equity, resiliency, and more. One topic that received a lot of attention from keynotes, panels and the president of the ASLA was on gender inequality in landscape architecture. This topic is near and dear to our hearts at Plot Studio and we were honored to have the opportunity to present our work and insight on the topic. On Thursday TJ Marston, founder at Plot Studio and faculty at Florida International University, led a presentation and panel discussion on supporting women in the workplace with her friend and landscape architect, Whitney Tidd from Dix. Hite + Partners. TJ presented ongoing research on gender equity in our profession which she curated in collaboration with Samantha Solano from Juxtopos and the University of Nevada along with her team at Plot Studio. Their research was the first to uncover the career ladder for women in landscape architecture and will be released publicly by the end of this month - so stay tuned!
Three graduate landscape architecture teams from TJ Marston's Spring Graduate Design 4 Studio at FIU were selected to be featured by Midstory, Toledo's media think-hub, this summer. The students will produce a video presentation of their innovative proposals for Toledo's Warehouse District. Their work will be featured on Midstory's website and at the citywide summer gala titled “A City in Transit” at the Downtown Train Station on August 3rd. "Midstory is dedicated to retain, cultivate, and attract youth and the public from disparate segments of post-industrial cities—beginning in the city of Toledo, Ohio—by interweaving stories of science, art, and culture. Our Vision is to have a powerful midstory in the nation, curating a voice for postindustrial communities—toward renewed socio-cultural capital in the Midwest." - Midstory's Mission The three teams selected had a range of ideas such as deploying tactical urbanism through experience themed loops, creating a new productive urban waterfront along Swan Creek, and developing urban agro-tourism in downtown Toledo.
To catch a sneek peak at their team projects, read more below! Twelve graduate students in FIU LA+EUD's Graduate Design 05 Studio delivered their midterm proposal for the Warehouse District in Toledo, Ohio with special guest critics from the University of Toledo and Civitas (Denver Colorado). Under the direction of Plot Studio's Principal and FIU faculty member, TJ Marston, the students uncovered Swan Creek as a asset and used public space to catalyze growth and innovation. Their proposals ranged from using tactical urbanism as a public space strategy to proposing a new center for agricultural research and innovation, leading northwest Ohio into a new age of food production, innovation and resilience. To see more images from their projects click, "Read More" below.
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