WORKING BALANCE
What are the marks that you make on the surface? What is your working balance? Are they lines? Does the term line confuse the issue? A line as defined by Euclidian modalities does...
Tagged: DRAWING FROM DRAWING
THE PROCESS IS THE MASSAGE
“What is needed is a process approach: each visual representation should be linked with its context of production.” Pauwels.
TAKE A DOT FOR A WALK
Paul Klee famously stated that a line is “a dot that went for a walk.” You make a dot when your pencil touches your paper, and that dot goes for a walk because of...
BRAIN DUMP
I’ve been wanting to put together a page like this for awhile. I have assembled sequential pages from a sketchbook, to see if my brain dump gives insight. The date range is from 7...
DESIGN COMPETENCE
Architects, to maintain their license to practice, need to earn a certain number of what are called Continuing Education credits per year. Many of you readers are architects, and are of course familiar with...
OPERATIONAL DRAWING
I happened across this site, called APK Concepts, which I want to share with you. I was looking for more information on Margaret Morris’ book, Notation of Movement, and this was in the...
DRAWING MATERIALITY 2 – THE STICKY SIDE
We started the category, Drawing Materiality, awhile ago. And there has not been much follow up. So, to correct that curatorial deficiency, let’s dive back in and see what we have. For this outing,...
ALL IN ALL IT’S JUST BRICKS IN THE WALL
While reading and annotating Norberg-Schulz’s Intentions in Architecture, I wrote “all in all it’s just bricks in the wall” three times in the margins. The book was all just words piled upon words. Tortuous...
ARCHITECTURAL ACTION
Mogwai, a post rock band, put out an album in 2001 titled Rock Action. I’ve always liked that title (the music is fun also), and as I was drawing recently, it occurred to me,...
FRANKENTHALER TRANSPARENCY
Helen Frankenthaler painted transparently. She diluted oil paint with turpentine. This resulted in the paint acting more like a stain on the canvas, as it soaked in. The result was her breakthru into a...
THE BOOK HAS SAILED
That is such a great phrase, the book has sailed. This is what my publisher, who is British, wrote to me. The update is that it sailed, or was put on the ship bound...
FAST FORM GENERATION
Select two transparent drawings as your Source Image. Draw one over the other. Presto. You have a previously unimaginable form generated on your paper. You achieved fast form generation. This was the first time...
IF SOL LEWITT DREW HOLISTIC FORMS
My first encounter with the wall drawings of Sol Lewitt was at Mass MoCA. That was something like 10 years ago. And I have only now realized something fundamental about Lewitt’s drawings: they are...
AESTHETICS
In our quest for knowledge of form, where does aesthetics fit in? Are aesthetics and holistic form cognition supportive, or mutually exclusive? Goodman, in their book Language of Art, gives their take on the...
BUILDINGS AS FORM GENERATOR
We now look at a new Transparent Drawing Mode, Buildings As Form Generator. In each drawing, whatever the mode, whatever the type, we end up with fresh, unique forms. We use various sources as...
LEONARDO, TRANSPARENT THINKER
Leonardo was a transparent thinker. He was not a transparent drawer. But his process supports all of the tenants of Transparent Drawing. Why? Well, there seem to be two Leonardos. The first is the...
DRAWING OUTSIDE THE BOUNDARY OF FORM
Have you ever tried to visualize what a form looks like before it is resolved? Is there a plasmic, free flowing state of a form before it is a form? What if we draw...
DRAWING FROM DRAWING – PICASSO’S BULL
The first thing you should do is scroll to the bottom of this page. The drawing sequence is from the bottom to the top. This is a Drawing From Drawing (DFD), in which the...
ANALYTICAL WATERCOLOR
I hate Pinterest. I’ve said this before. But now there is a new Pinterest board in which many of my watercolors have been pinned. It is called Analytical Watercolor. And the author saw fit...
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