Monthly Archive: April 2014

TRAVEL 2

TRAVEL

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...

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VILLA SAVOYE

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,...

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NOTHING IS PARALLEL

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...

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PAZZI CHAPEL

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...

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OUT THE WINDOW

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...

CHING AND TRANSPARENCY 1

CHING AND TRANSPARENCY

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...

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LA TOURETTE

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. ...

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COFFEE CUP

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...

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HOLLOW OBJECTS

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...

LINE AND WORD 2

LINE AND WORD

  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...

ADOLPH LOOS.  STEINER HOUSE. 1

ADOLPH LOOS. STEINER HOUSE.

Adolph Loos.  Steiner House. Vienna. I recently gained a new interest in Adolph Loos.  This is principally because of a recent article that I read about his work.  This house was designed for an...