Understand your client's needs, wants, personalities and outdoor living space requirements - to confidently accomplish large and small scale designs in one (1) day. YES IN 1 DAY! All while holding your client spellbound for 4-8 hours.

Learn how to design $25,000.00-$100,000.00 projects

Learn how to work with the site, utilizing the existing conditions, views and topography and to incorporate patios, accent walls, minor construction details, entry features, courtyards, front walks, ponds, streams, water features, golf greens, putting greens, sand volleyball, basketball courts, tennis courts, fence location, circular drives, additional parking, planting and planting bed design. Learn how to understand setting of spot grades.

Designing quote to remember: "Other people will be constructing from your paper design. Small mistakes on paper can be costly in the field to both homeowners and contractors."

What You'll Learn
We'll cover these topics in six (6) intensive and fun days:

Techniques
1. How do I create two-dimensional vertical and horizontal movement within designs while accomplishing a successful composition?
2. Learn the 6 MOST IMPORTANT things animators from Pixar, Disney, Warner Brothers and the every day cartoon creators use and rely on for successful projects. It is also what the old masters such as Leonardo Da Vinci, Michelangelo, Escher, Andrew Wyeth and many others used to express feeling and emotion. I use these 6 techniques in my artwork, renderings, designs, sketches and drawings on a regular basis. This will surprise you. You see and touch these techniques every day.
3. How the eye works and how to guide the viewer through a controlled tour of your design, what you want them to see first, second and third - and where you want their eye to rest.
4. How do I make my two-dimensional design feel and move into a three-dimensional real life masterpiece that is "wowing"?
5. How to create dimension and depth within designs.
6. How positive and negative spaces are used to accomplish a successful design and project.
7. The correct approach and methodology of using foreground, midground and background elements and textures to accomplish multiples levels of depth.
8. How to simply apply an artistic flair to your designs.
9. How to develop a balanced design composition.
10. How to successfully use repetitive elements throughout your design.
11. Basic principles of design
      labeling
      drafting
      lettering
      sheet layout
      project presentation
      what scale to work in

The Client
1. How to complete the design in one day and get the design approved by your client.
2. How to draft and label the design into a construction-ready document in just a few (2-3) hours.
3. The best way to begin the design process with an open and productive mind.
4. How I get my client to listen to me with confidence.
5. What are the 4 design categories I must know before I begin the design?
6. How I make sure I have accomplished my client's goals and objectives.
7. How do I prioritize my client's goals and objectives?
8. How do I get the client to visualize and understand the design's vision?
9. How to develop plans that can be phased over time.
10. How to develop a budget for a client.
11. Who determines the budget and what gets built first.

The Concepts and Design
1. How to use lines and form throughout the design.
2. How do I create layers and levels in my planting design?
3. How to select materials and use them successfully.
4. How to delineate the size, form and flow to hardscapes.
5. How to make the contractor and installer understand the design's vision.
6. Learn to use positive and negative space appropriately - The Very Most Important.
7. How to create horizontal and vertical movement.
8. How do I design appropriate spaces for the appropriate needs?
9. How to design flow for pedestrian and vehicular movement.
10. How to develop cohesive designs.
11. How do I incorporate life, feeling and mood?

Analysis
1. How to do a comprehensive site analysis in minutes.
2. How to do a topographic analysis in minutes.
3. How to do a microclimatic analysis in minutes.
4. How to combine the 3 analyses together to accomplish a successful design while maximizing the goals and objectives of your client.

Construction Aspects
1. How to determine existing elevations and set proposed spot grades. Very Important.
2. How set elevations to determine quantity of steps and square footage for estimating.
3. How to develop typical construction details.
4. How to understand drainage patterns and standard laws.
5. How to treat the contractor and installer.

Practical
This is a very interactive workshop you will "learn by doing" and Paul will be hands-on with each student. Paul will show you hand skill techniques (how to confidently hold the pencils, markers and drafting supplies to achieve particular design and drafting techniques for speed, quickness, line quality and weight). To be followed by a guided hands-on and practical approach with each student on developing special organization and texture delineation skills.

How You'll Benefit:
You'll benefit immediately and be able to use the design knowledge and drafting techniques on your very next project - while satisfying your client's goals and objectives - developing a comprehensive and cohesive plan in just hours.
1. You'll have greater confidence and speed when you're designing.
2. You'll spend less time driving back and forth to and from your client's house.
3. You won't need to meet your clients during odd evening hours.
4. You will have knowledge on how to work in plan and elevation at the same time.
5. You will be able to develop a portfolio of spectacular designs that function for job interviews and client presentations.
6. You will earn credibility with co-workers and clients with your new creative abilities.
7. You will be more valuable to your employer.
8. You will be invited to work on more complex and innovative projects.
9. You'll gain a new awareness and appreciation for lines, forms, textures and special delineation while experiencing the new world of design.
10. The things that you'll learn here will cross multiple genres allowing your abilities as a designer to be more knowledgeable with the use of lines, forms, shapes, balance, resting spaces, movement, and most importantly the use of positive and negative space.

Summary
You'll have a greater appreciation for design movement and flow while developing cohesive compositions, allowing you to create functional and vibrant spaces that are sexy and full of life with confidence and speed. The techniques that you'll learn from this workshop will allow you to produce a higher level of successful projects for your portfolio, employer or client. The continued success of these techniques and understanding the compositional aspect can only be achieved by you, with repetitive persistent practice. Our teaching method is practical and hands on. You will have no choice but to have fun, learn and absorb new knowledge.

Pricing

Included:
1. A complete comprehensive workbook that explains every technique, step and idea, in simple detail so you can refer back to it again and again for reconfirmation and reference.
2. A complete list of tools and materials that Paul uses personally to create designs.
3. Fun exercises you can do at home to improve your hand skills and drawing techniques.
4. You'll produce a variety of designs, sketches, quick perspective and elevations that will be useful for your portfolio.
5. You'll learn in six (6) days what has taken Paul his whole career to develop.

The price to attend this workshop is only $1,200.00 per design professional.
Full-time design students will receive a 20% discount, a $240.00 savings, for a total of $960.00.

PROFESSIONAL DISCOUNTS		COST		STUDENT DISCOUNTS		COST
1 Professional from one office		$1,200.00 per		1 Student from one school		$960.00 per
2-3 Professionals from one office		$1,080.00 per		2-4 Students from one school		$865.00 per
4-5 Professionals from one office		$ 975.00 per		5-7 Students from one school		$775.00 per
				8+ Students from one school		$695.00 per

Students: Please send proof of student status either via email or US Postal Mail.

Groups: Group discounts must be submitted via Postal Mail with all checks enclosed. When signing up as a group, if someone cancels or reschedules, it will affect your discount.

Rescheduling Policy: Cancellation must be made in writing more than 30 days before your session starts for reimbursement following these guidelines:
If a schedule conflict arises for you, you may reschedule for another workshop at no cost/penalty.

Learn new and innovative hand graphic and design techniques that will increase your speed and confidence. Your life and bank account will change forever…