Monthly Archive: April 2016

SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION 0

SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION

We read about the importance of search engine optimization, or SEO, all the time.  Or at least everyone says it is important. If you don’t blog, you may not know how SEO is integrated...

CAMBRIDGE FIRE HOUSE #3 0

CAMBRIDGE FIRE HOUSE #3

It immediately looked familiar.  Yet I was not sure from where. When staying in Boston last week, we had occasion to walk past this building many times.  My first thought is that it was...

DAYDREAMS 0

DAYDREAMS

Our clients daydream.  As soon as they look at your drawing, and as they begin to understand it, they immediately daydream. Your drawing is recalling things and places in their own past.  They begin...

KEEP RUNNING 0

KEEP RUNNING

You have to keep running not to be stuck. Noguchi said this, as reported by Herrera in her book, Listening to Stone, on page 94. It would be interesting to have some sort of...

ALL ACROSS THE UNIVERSE 0

ALL ACROSS THE UNIVERSE

Reading in Bachelard, it was gratifying to hear him contemplate memory, space and time.  He posits the theory that memory is free of time.  That is to say, our memories are devoid of a...

WHAT IS AND WHAT WILL BE 0

WHAT IS AND WHAT WILL BE

In Transparent Drawing, you draw to solve what is to be built, and you draw to solve what has already been built.  Either way it is the same problem that requires a solution. That...

HOW DOES IT FEEL? 0

HOW DOES IT FEEL?

I mentioned a couple of pages ago that I like the Staedtler Mars 4B pencils, which I use to draw in my Moleskine Watercolor sketchbooks.  Of course there are thousands of pencil and paper...

CHEAP WATERCOLOR SETS 0

CHEAP WATERCOLOR SETS

Two pages ago, I offered thoughts on watercolor sets.  I also commented on the cost.  The three sets that I highlighted were all around $70.  In the whole scheme of things, when a tank...

THE LIVING IS FUZZY 0

THE LIVING IS FUZZY

Reading more from the Poetics of Space, “His task is that of proceeding phenominologically to images that have not been experienced, and which life does not prepare, but which the poet creates; of living...

PAINTS AND BRUSHES 0

PAINTS AND BRUSHES

Christian writes in with the following query: “Just found your site searching for La Tourette images. I was wondering what materials you use and in what order? I’ve been using a water brush and...

SEEING IS KNOWLEDGE 0

SEEING IS KNOWLEDGE

There are so many books sources stacked up on my desk, I have no idea how I will ever get thru them all. And I am starting to get concerned that I am going...

THINKING IN BETWEEN 0

THINKING IN BETWEEN

Es Devlin, who is the most prominent set designer in the world, thinks like a transparent drawer. In Andrew O’Hagen’s article, Imaginary Spaces, in the 28 March 16 issue of The New Yorker, he...

ROYAL ONTARIO MUSEUM 1

ROYAL ONTARIO MUSEUM

I didn’t like it.  There, I said it.  I did not like the Royal Ontario Museum. With the famous architect (Liebskind) and the famous theory (deconstructivism) and the building budget (obviously huge), I had...