NATIONAL TURBULENCE AND UTOPIA
As mentioned before, I am reading Erik Reece’s Utopia Drive. If you missed it, here is a link to the page ARTLESS ART, which brings a Shaker sensibility to what we do here at...
Monthly Archive: November 2016
WATER SOLUBLE PENS 1
Some pens are water soluble. In our continuing exploration into drawing instruments that are water soluble (see WATER SOLUBLE PENCILS, for example,) how about water soluble pens? Most felt tip and ball point pens...
DRAW IN WATER
How wet is wet? Very. On the page WATER SOLUBLE PENCILS 2, we introduced the concept of drawing on a wet piece of paper. And I am finding that the wetter the paper, the...
CHUANG-TSU AND THE CRAB
We heard the story of Picasso and the Chicken. We closed that page with the proviso that we didn’t know if it was true or not. So I wanted to record a similar version...
WATER SOLUBLE PENCILS 2
These pencils are great. Per the previous WATER SOLUBLE PENCILS page, I did what I said I was going to do. In the drawing at the top, I first wetted the paper completely. And...
WATER SOLUBLE PENCILS
I tried out a water soluble pencil this morning. I didn’t know they existed. I was looking thru the Dick Blick pages, and then realized something like this was made. So I ordered a...
WORDLESS ART
“Architecture seems to be confined to drawings and hope. Can this essentially wordless art – that is, this art that lies just beyond the reach of words – negotiate the barriers of its present...
POETIC IMMORTALS
On a recent excursion thru the Metropolitan Museum, I came upon these ink drawings, shown below, of famous Japanese poets. The drawings were done by Sakai Hoitsu (1761-1828) and are titled The 36 Poetic...
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