Garden Design Level 2

Design Landscape Garden

What you'll learn

You will learn how to improve your Garden Design skills above beginner level

You will be able to represent a garden design in more detail

The techniques will enable you to expand your knowledge of Garden Design

Some techniques will help you improve other skills such as drawing and persepctive

You will learn about scale and how to apply it to plans of different sizes

You will learn hands on techniques that can be used instead of solely using computer design

Requirements

Ideally you will have a basic knowledge of the principles of Garden Design and have undertaken a Beginners Guide to Garden Design, you will need basic equipment such as appropriate pencils and pens paper trace paper and various easy to obtain materials

Description

This course is for people that would like to improve their knowledge and understanding of Garden Design.If you have completed our Beginner's guide to Garden Design it is an excellent follow up, it is also useful if you have any other experience in designing a space, or if you are new to Garden Design Some of the techniques can be used as a stand alone method of presenting ideas, a Principles of garden design handout is available to download.The course is laid out in sections using methods that are easy to follow and with basic materials.All the methods presented are 'hands on' and creative allowing you to try new tasks that you may not have thought about before.You don't have to be good at art or design and although it is preferable to have some basic knowledge of garden design some techniques can be utilized in an overall garden design scheme.We hope you will enjoy the course and gain new insight into the methods that professional (and amateur) gardendesigners make use of, it will give you more scope in your understanding of how scale, proportion colour and presentation is important in the next stages of designing a garden space.

Overview

Section 1: Introduction to Garden Design Level 2

Lecture 1 Introduction

Lecture 2 TRACE DRAWINGS INTRODUCTION

Lecture 3 TRACE DRAWINGS STAGE ONE

Lecture 4 TRACE DRAWINGS THE PROCESS PENCIL

Lecture 5 TRACE DRAWINGS PROCESS PENCIL

Lecture 6 TRACE DRAWINGS INK

Lecture 7 TRACE DRAWINGS INK

Section 2: MOOD BOARDS (INSPIRATION BOARDS)

Lecture 8 MOOD BOARDS INTRODUCTION

Lecture 9 RESOURCES

Lecture 10 MOOD BOARDS THE PROCESS

Section 3: ELEVATION DRAWINGS

Lecture 11 INTRODUCTION

Lecture 12 WHAT IS AN ELEVATION DRAWING?

Lecture 13 ELEVATION DRAWINGS: THE TECHNIQUE

Lecture 14 SECOND ELEVATION EXAMPLE

Section 4: SKETCH MODELS

Lecture 15 INTRODUCTION

Lecture 16 MAKING A SKETCH MODEL: PLAN AND MATERIALS

Lecture 17 HOW TO MAKE A SKETCH MODEL PLAN GROUND FEATURES AND SUMMER HOUSE

Lecture 18 MAKING THE REST OF THE FEATURES

Section 5: SCALE

Lecture 19 scale overview

Lecture 20 scale plan examples

Lecture 21 contrasting scales

Lecture 22 FINAL LECTURE

People that want to improve on their basic Garden Design knowledge