BEDDING IN - NEW ROUTINES

 

Incremental progress on my Baroque church model. The "air-lock" doors don't feature in the floor plans I have seen, but it's a normal feature of church design (sound lock really) and perfectly obvious when you try to build a model from publicly available photographs. So that's one thing I've been working on. Still not quite happy with the proportions of the various components, but we are moving in the right direction.

Some effort has also gone into the column bases and the shafts, which are less tapered than my "standard" corinthian version. And finally the beginnings of infill panels between the columns which are framed up with various designs of niche and cartouche. It seems to me the niches were intended to take statues, but in the end were left blank.

I have yet to add the hollowing out of the wall for these niches, plus the pendentives currently looming above as dark voids. Day by day, we do what we can, and gain insight along the way.

 

Nibbling away at this seemingly herculean task. Accepting the less than perfect for good reasons. Making headway day by day.

This is San Carlo, a tiny church placed at a junction with four drinking fountains and dedicated to Charles Borromeo, an opponent of the modest reforms introduced by the breakaway church of England.

Distant times but familiar human nature. Also a very beautiful and greatly loved place of worship to uplift the human spirit. I have introduced preliminary versions of the side altars. Modeled in place to establish the basic size and proportions, then kept 'open' while I copied the geometry to a loadable family template. Now the two copies can be further developed as RFA files, with efficient use of time and computer memory.

 

This is a ghost gable on London Street, a short walk from my place. I decided to 'AI out' a 'for sale' sign that was distracting my eye from the subtle shadow letters. Of course the gremlin then hallucinated nonsense letters, so I proceeded to pixelate these away.

On future visits to the Reference Library I will look out for older images and text relating to this music shop that once thrived in a street that is now dominated by Turkish Barbers and exotic groceries.

Change is an ancient feature of English society and a fascinating study topic. But has it gone too far, too fast? It's a worry.

 

 

Friday late lunch. Rewarding myself for a nice long walk with fish and chips at the local Weatherspoons.

 

Still have to buy the hooks and plan picture hanging properly, but for the moment I've got a workable arrangement in place at my new home and most of the clutter tucked away.

Beautiful day.