Since we are away this week, I offer this drawing from one of our recent travels. When we were in Toronto, and toured the Art Gallery of Ontario, I came upon this interesting piece from the Dogon peoples of Mali. Previous post about the AGO here. Following Transparent Drawing procedures exactly I dutifully snapped this […]
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28Mar
2016
DRIVE-IN MOVIE SCREEN
2016
This one just about caused an accident. When we were in Indiana a few months ago and driving thru the countryside, this structure loomed out of nowhere. At first, it was not clear exactly what it was. It looked like something out of Lebbeus Woods. Or from War Of The Worlds. Is this what landed […]
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25Mar
2016
DESIGN RISK COEFFICIENT
2016
Is it fair to say that our clients gamble when they say yes to a design concept? While we typically don’t use the word gamble to apply to design selection, when faced with an unknown result, there is an element of a gamble. Abject gambling or not, each of us has what psychologists call a […]
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23Mar
2016
THE PROOF IS ON THE PAPER
2016
Visual Facts is a concept introduced here at transparent drawing. For a very brief primer on Visual Facts, this link takes you to a previous page. The word fact is, etymologically, an act or a deed. In the 13th century, anything that was a fact needed to be verifiable by evidence and a method of […]
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21Mar
2016
NYIT WORKSHOP – DRAWING 2
2016
This is the second part of the Transparent Drawing workshop held in Professor Frangos’ first year design studio at New York Institute of Technology last week. The first installment can be found on the previous page. In the first drawing, students developed transparent forms based on the paintings of Ellsworth Kelly. Their second drawing directly […]
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18Mar
2016
NYIT WORKSHOP – DRAWING 1
2016
Naomi Frangos, Associate Professor of Architecture at New York Institute of Technology, Old Westbury Campus, Long Island, heroically invited me to give a Transparent Drawing workshop for her first year architecture design studio. The workshop took place during her normal class time on Monday. As has been said before and I’ll say it again here, […]
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16Mar
2016
MANDOLIN AND CLARINET
2016
The Transparent Drawing workshop conducted on Monday went super. I will make at least two pages of the drawings that the students did while providing full details of the event. I was hoping to put up their drawings today. However, I know all too well the inertia that occurs when you ask students to scan […]
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14Mar
2016
ART GALLERY OF ONTARIO
2016
As mentioned on the previous page, I will be at an architecture school conducting a Transparent Drawing workshop today. So I have included this travel related drawing. When we were in Toronto a few weeks ago, we of course went thru the Art Gallery of Ontario. This is a Frank Gehry museum. And it is […]
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11Mar
2016
IN THE CLASSROOM
2016
On Monday, Transparent Drawing will be in the classroom. Yes, a bold and adventurous architecture professor has asked me to conduct a Transparent Drawing workshop for their architecture students. Notice that I am leaving out all names and places for the moment so as to protect the innocent. This will be my first classroom interface […]
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9Mar
2016
SELF-ACCOMPLISHING ABSOLUTE IMAGES
2016
As we have established, images reside in our memories. When we draw, or learn, we add images to our memories. This adding of images to memory only increases the value of images that are already there. So you might say that learning, or drawing, is simply a multiplication of memory images. And you also might […]
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