The Studio Extensions
CREATIVE ARTS WORKSHOP · STUDIO EXTENSIONS
Beyond the capstone, the Workshop keeps a short shelf of longer builds. These are the Studio Extensions.
An extension takes something a scholar first met in paper, in a drill, or in another professor's classroom, and builds the version meant to last: the instrument in board and brass instead of card, the dial set in a garden instead of drawn on a page, the wheel painted at the size of a wall. They are bigger work than any single lesson, and most of them take more than one sitting at the bench. That is the point of them. Some things are learned by finishing, and some things are learned by staying with one piece of work until it is right.
No extension is ever required. Not for a lesson, not for the capstone, not for any other class. They are here for the scholar who finished a unit, looked at the paper version, and thought: I could make that properly. That thought is welcome in this workshop. Bring it to my bench and we will plan the build together.
Each extension names the workshop tickets it stands on, the lessons whose skills it spends all at once. If a ticket is missing, take that lesson first. The Workshop keeps no locked doors, but it does keep an order.
What the Extensions Ask
- The named tickets in hand before the build begins, no exceptions and no shame in it. The lesson will wait.
- A build log kept from the first sketch, the same honest record the capstone asks for.
- Patience with fitting. Work built to last is fitted, checked, taken apart, and fitted again. A scholar in a hurry should choose a smaller build.
- The standing rule of the bench, unchanged: we stop, we make it safe, then we begin again.
The Extensions
Extension 1: Precision Paper Instruments, Built to Last
The planisphere, the astrolabe, and the cipher wheel remade in board, card stock of weight, and brass, built to be handled for years. Stands on Lessons 3, 4, and 7.
Extension 2: The Permanent Sundial & Horizon Alignment
A dial laid out, leveled, and set for this castle's own horizon, in wood or in stone, that will still be telling the hour truly when its maker has left the school. Stands on Lessons 2 and 23, and on Lesson 27 for scholars building in stone.
Extension 3: Models That Move, Built as Machines
Moving models of the heavens and the seasons, geared and pivoted, built as machines rather than diagrams. Stands on Lessons 4, 23, and 29.
Extension 4: Painted Wheels at Full Size
The great cycles, the moon names, the solar cycle, the zodiac, painted at full size on board in ground pigment, with a rotating overlay where the wheel's work demands one, made to hang and be read across a room. Stands on Lessons 2, 7, and 15.
Extension 5: Relief & Scale Displays
Raised relief and scale display work: landforms, buildings, and scenes built up in layers on a true foundation, made for the Gallery and the classroom wall. Stands on Lessons 7, 20, and 23.
Where the Finished Work Goes
Extension builds are made to be used. The instruments go to the classrooms whose paper versions they replace. The sundial goes into the ground. The wheels and reliefs hang in the Gallery and on classroom walls, with the maker's name on the back, the way makers have always signed work that was meant to outlast them.
When a scholar's extension is hung, that scholar has done what this workshop exists to teach: a thing made true, made to last, and made for somebody else.
From the Workshop Shelf
The printed companions to these studio pages, from Professor Timberclank’s shelf in the shop.
Creative Arts — Workshop Record Pages: Extensions & Specials Packet (50 Pages)
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