{"id":1531,"date":"2012-07-27T16:38:37","date_gmt":"2012-07-27T20:38:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.randallwolff.com\/wordpress\/?p=1531"},"modified":"2012-07-27T16:38:37","modified_gmt":"2012-07-27T20:38:37","slug":"monogram","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.randallwolff.com\/wordpress\/2012\/07\/monogram\/","title":{"rendered":"Monogram"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I thought I would make a model after this very ornamental monogram pictured below:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.randallwolff.com\/wordpress\/architectural-models\/monogram\/attachment\/mono\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1532\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.randallwolff.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/mono-552x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"mono\" width=\"552\" height=\"600\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1532\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The antique original pictured above came from the old James McCreary Dept store on 23rd Street, 6th Avenue, NYC, I removed it from the lower portion of one of the metal elevator doors when the building was being demolished around 1974. I had added the frame and painted detailing around then.<\/p>\n<p>The poor photo from 1982 doesn&#8217;t show it well, but it&#8217;s a very entwined, ornamental 3D design that would translate nicely in clay I think.<\/p>\n<p>I will make the design about 15&#8243; square.<\/p>\n<p>The original sign is low relief but interesting intertwining of the letters, so I thought a much deeper relief would lend itself to some interesting treatment with various relief heighs, shadows and cutouts. I think a textured background, smooth letters will do best, haven&#8217;t decided on the texture yet, maybe a ball peened, or wood notched tool marks.<\/p>\n<p>I decided to go with full size, making the monogram end up about 15-16&#8243; square on an 18&#8243; background which will shrink a little. I used course red clay as I have two boxes of it I need to get rid of before it&#8217;s too stiff to use.<\/p>\n<p>Setting up the model with  the lettering outlines inscribed on the clay for reference:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.randallwolff.com\/wordpress\/architectural-models\/monogram\/attachment\/jmcco\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1543\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.randallwolff.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/jmcco.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"jmcco\" width=\"480\" height=\"500\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1543\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I will probably make the letters quite raised, 3\/4&#8243; or even more.<\/p>\n<p>The monogram is:  J M Mc Co. which was the James McCreary  Co. department store dating back to the 1880s.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.randallwolff.com\/wordpress\/architectural-models\/monogram\/attachment\/jmcco2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1545\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.randallwolff.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/jmcco2.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"jmcco2\" width=\"464\" height=\"500\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1545\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I thought I would make a model after this very ornamental monogram pictured below: The antique original pictured above came from the old James McCreary Dept store on 23rd Street, 6th Avenue, NYC, I removed it from the lower portion of one of the metal elevator doors when the building was being demolished around 1974. I had added the frame and painted detailing around then. The poor photo from 1982 doesn&#8217;t show it well, but it&#8217;s a very entwined, ornamental 3D design that would translate nicely in clay I think. I will make the design about 15&#8243; square. The original sign is low relief but interesting intertwining of the letters, so I thought a much deeper relief would lend itself to some interesting treatment with various relief heighs, shadows and cutouts. I think a textured background, smooth letters will do best, haven&#8217;t decided on the texture yet, maybe a ball peened, or wood notched tool marks. I decided to go with full size, making the monogram end up about 15-16&#8243; square on an 18&#8243; background which will shrink a little. I used course red clay as I have two boxes of it I need to get rid of before it&#8217;s too stiff to use. Setting up the model with the lettering outlines inscribed on the clay for reference: I will probably make the letters quite raised, 3\/4&#8243; or even more. The monogram is: J M Mc Co. which was the James McCreary Co. department store dating back to the 1880s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sculptures"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.randallwolff.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.randallwolff.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.randallwolff.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.randallwolff.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.randallwolff.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.randallwolff.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1531\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.randallwolff.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.randallwolff.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.randallwolff.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}