I will be away for about 10 days traveling. I fully expect to employ Transparent Drawing for the famous iconographic buildings that I will see. While I realize that there are apps that let you post from the phone, is any of this that important that it can’t wait? On the same topic, this is […]
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28Apr
2014
VILLA SAVOYE
2014
Of all of the iconic buildings that I have been bombarded with over the decades, Villa Savoye always seems to be near the top. Every time that I see an image of this building, I am always basically stopped in my tracks. This building is 83 years old. Yet it continues to strike me as […]
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25Apr
2014
NOTHING IS PARALLEL
2014
How we draw things are not how they are. Distortion between how the world seems to be and how it looks plagued artistic mankind from the beginning. We will continue to think about the discrepancies in the observable world as we progress. Juan Caramuel, who was a 17th century philosopher, wrote a thesis on oblique […]
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24Apr
2014
PAZZI CHAPEL
2014
Years ago during a family trip to Italy, I dutifully brought along my sketchbook. We stayed almost a week in Florence. This is a pencil sketch that I completed during that trip. I made this sketch while sitting in the grass in front of the Pazzi Chapel. Despite the fact that I did this sketch, […]
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23Apr
2014
OUT THE WINDOW
2014
Transparent Drawing can be employed when you are drawing en plein, or in fresh air. I did this sketch of a few New York City building tops. These were viewed from the window of my hotel. (I guess there is a joke here as to how fresh the air is in a modern hotel.) For […]
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21Apr
2014
CHING AND TRANSPARENCY
2014
A book that we have all been given as a basic drawing resource is Architectural Graphics, by Francis Ching. Almost every drawing in the book is opaquely drawn. Yet Ching does address transparency in the following three ways. 1. Cutaway Views as shown above. This is defined where an outer element is removed so you […]
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17Apr
2014
LA TOURETTE
2014
I’ve never been to La Tourette, which as you may know, is the Dominican monastery designed by LeCorbusier. I became curious about La Tourette as I gave a monastery project to my design students. As I became more curious, I realized that although I had seen iconic images of the building ever since I started […]
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16Apr
2014
COFFEE CUP
2014
Transparent Drawing can be done for any object that you see. A couple of mornings ago, I was wondering what to draw. Why not draw something that is right before me? So I drew my coffee cup transparently. As I drew, I realized that this coffee cup has thick sides. I became very focused on […]
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15Apr
2014
HOLLOW OBJECTS
2014
The Natural Way to Draw was used in my introductory drawing course. I will refer to this iconic book from time to time. It continues to maintain a position of reverence on my bookshelf and I always enjoy looking thru it. I want to revisit Mr. Nicolaides’ discussion of mass at the beginning of Section […]
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11Apr
2014
LINE AND WORD
2014
The education for most of us has had a far more literary than artistic focus. When you write a story in grade school, it of course is rough. And you are given encouragement and suggestions on how to improve. You try again, and it is better. And you do get better over the years […]
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