DRAWING SCALE PLANS MADE EASY

Woodworker, Natural Therapist, Gardener, Woodland Manager and Eco Adventurer. Exploring a sustainable way of life since 2006. Running courses and events around Perth, Scotland since 2017

Ian Watt

How to make drawings that will help you plan anything from a piece of furniture to a garden or farm

Cottage Three

Ian's Practical Workshops

A range of courses and events on the practical nuts and bolts of sustainable living.
Based on Ian's adventures on eco projects in the UK and Portugal and on many years of woodworking and gardening.
Informative and fun :-)

DRAWING SCALE PLANS MADE EASYwith Ian Chrissie Valluri and Ian WattGood plans can be so helpful whether you're making or building something, or developing an area of land, whether you're working things out on your own or discussing things within a group. Make your mistakes on paper before you do anything for real... the hours spent in drawing will be repaid in mistake time saved many times over!!.. :-) They're not that difficult to do if you take it step by step, and you don't need lots of fancy equipment.We're going to start with the basic geometry involved, points, lines, angles and shapes, and make it simple by connecting up lengths of batten so you can see and feel how it all works.Then we'll make a survey of one of the garden areas at Cottage Three and draw a scale plan from that. Cottage Three is a brilliant venue for this event as Chrissie and Bobby have done so much to develop their home and garden for sustainable living. There's lots of interesting features in a small area.There's different ways of producing drawings and we'll show you how to work from Google maps or drone photos, also how you can use Photoshop and Sketchup for plans, different scales and how a simple printer/photocopier can be really handy.Here's a drawing Ian made for Perth Community Farm and some photos and geometry handouts from the first time we ran this course (as Maths for the Mystified) at Inverquiech Farm with Kate Everett - it was lots of fun! See you at Cottage Three :-)

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