A few days ago, I cited the beautiful watercolor drawings of Tom Leytham. In his latest newsletter, Tom shows us his drawings made while in an old industrial setting, the Hutton Brickworks, in Kingston, NY. These drawings are part of his Continuing Studies in Architecture series. I thought it might be fun to pose a […]
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26Mar
2015
EARLY PERSPECTIVE THINKERS
2015
During the 1620s, Francis Bacon, a Franciscan monk, composed the Opus Majus. This was intended to be a compendium of the knowledge of the world. As we may expect from a Franciscan monk, he is continually looking at the world thru the eyes of God. “…Oh, how the ineffable beauty of the divine wisdom would […]
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24Mar
2015
ARCHITECT BLOGS OF NOTE
2015
There are two architect blogs that pertain to sketching, watercolors and architecture that are fun to check out. Frank Harmon, who is an architect, has a nice blog titled Native Places. This link was forwarded to me by Mark Broyles, AIA. Frank’s watercolors are very nice, and it is fun to read his thoughts accompanying […]
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23Mar
2015
CROWN HALL HOMAGE
2015
One of the themes that has developed in these pages is the worship of famous buildings. At first, I was not sure why I was compelled to draw famous buildings. But now I get it. I was following my own unrealized need to engage with buildings that have been touted as superior. I realized that […]
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19Mar
2015
THREE DIMENSIONAL SOUL
2015
Bernhard Hoetger was a sculptor who also designed buildings. In 1928, he wrote. “We want no inhibitions and checks by recipes, we want the free spirit to find its own laws. The creative moment demands…synthesis. And this synthesis is not the sum of petty and doubtful details, but the outcome of an intuitive frenzy” “…attainment […]
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16Mar
2015
VISUAL SERENDIPITY
2015
A word that I keep coming back to is associative. If our drawings promote and foster associations in our minds, then they have added value. And we have mentioned Google Images as a medium with which to strengthen these associations. So it was refreshing to read in the 16 March issue of The New Yorker […]
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13Mar
2015
DRAWING IS DEAD
2015
I respectfully note the passing of Michael Graves, Architect, who died yesterday at the age of 80. The Postmodern Movement, which Graves championed, was gaining its’ full strength while I was in architecture school. It was difficult to resist the influence of the movement at such a young and impressionable age. As one of the […]
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11Mar
2015
THE 3D SOLID PROBLEM
2015
All we can draw are planes. We cannot render the volume inside a solid. In the drawing above, there is a solid and a void within the cube. The dark green solid part is only communicated via the application of tones to all sides. We imagine the solid. But we cannot draw the solidness. This […]
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9Mar
2015
SCIENTIFIC VISUALIZATION
2015
Stanislaw Ulam, speaking in Los Alamos in 1944. “I found out that the main ability to have was a visual, and also an almost tactile, way to imagine the physical situation, rather than a merely logical picture of the problems. One can imagine that subatomic world almost tangibly, and manipulate the picture dimensionally and qualitatively, […]
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6Mar
2015
DREAM DRAWING
2015
Mr. Manish Udar, in a recent contribution to the LinkedIn conversation that can be found here, mentioned the phenomenon of analogue drawings triggering dreams. I wonder if any one else has had a dream that was triggered by a drawing, or caused you to draw something because of a dream? I’m not very good at […]
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