SKETCHING IN THE WAKE (LITERALLY) OF LECORBUSIER
The Topkapi Palace as seen from the east. LeCorbusier I felt LeCorbusier’s presence in Turkey. And this was before I realized that Turkey was an inspiration for him. I always knew that his travels...
Monthly Archive: June 2014
ON REALISM – A LETTER TO HELEN
Why not draw realistically? After all, a basic tenant of realism is that it represents truth. A completely natural drawing is done without any outside artifice. Forms, textures, shadows, etc. are all rendered...
CHOISEY TRANSPARENCY
A Choisey projection is one in which the observer is looking up at the interior of the building. It takes the floor plan, and projects with parallel lines the spacial interior. The basic beauty...
ORDINARY BUILDING 2
For many people of our ilk, the brakes on our cars sure get a workout. We know the routine. We are driving along, typically trying to get someplace on time. And then there is...
FIRE PHONE
Amazon introduced their new Fire Phone. A technology perk that tries to distinguish the Fire from any other phone is what Amazon calls “dynamic perspective.” The cameras on the device tracks the position that...
BEAUX-ARTS BLAME GAME 2
There was a building boom in America after the Civil War. American architects were very concerned regarding both the low quality of the design and construction of these buildings. Thus there was a large...
PAUL KLEE AND TRANSPARENCY
Paul Klee seems to be thinking transparently in this watercolor. He seems to be employing what to this point we would call a Byzantine space time understanding. It is not an isometric drawing where...
QUICK START
If you have persevered thru any of this, you might be wondering how you would start to do a transparent drawing. You might have an urge to find a piece of paper, a pencil,...
BEAUX ARTS BLAME GAME 1
The Ecole des Beaux-Arts has been and continues to be a huge influence on our profession. It was a very prestigious arts and architecture school in Paris. It traced it’s roots back to 1648...
BYZANTINE MOSAIC
This photograph was taken from a mosaic on the ceiling of the Chora Church in Istanbul. As we have seen, the medieval artist did not have a cohesive and geometrically correct framework for their...
DRAWING WITHOUT REPRESENTATION
Seriously. After you draw transparently for as long as I have, when you see a nice representational drawing, I am starting to cringe. I ask myself; what’s behind that? How is that working? What...
INDUSTRIAL DESIGNERS DO IT BETTER
Industrial designers draw transparently. And this makes sense. They are designing objects. Their objects, although smaller than buildings of course, nevertheless need to be a complete enclosure. Industrial designers have many of the same...
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