Monthly Archive: June 2018

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WHY DO WE DRAW?

Why do we draw?  Why we draw is a fundamental theme of these pages.  By contrast, these pages are really not about how we draw.  That sort of thing has been covered by the...

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FOUNDATION OF MINDFULNESS

I really like the way Buddhist thought applies to Transparent Drawing.  In the Seven Factors of Awakening, Buddhism has primary goals of integration, holism, complete understanding, renunciation of petty facets of the real world,...

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SECRET KNOWLEDGE

When you see a great painting by a Renaissance master, we never stop to think, how did they do that?  We just assume, or at least I assume, that the Rembrandt portrait or the...

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CROATIA MODERNISM

The modenism is Croatia is out of this world.  That is because it is inspired by authentic socialist modernism.  I said this before a couple of years ago.  And I’m saying it again, now,...

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THE DRAWING ORGAN

You know how they say that the brain is the most important sex organ?  Well, the same is true for drawing;  your brain is the most important drawing organ. Now, we are typically taught...

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SELF TIME EXPOSURE

It never occurred to me to draw a plaza, or square, or piazza, until Teresa suggested it.  We had walked thru St. John’s Square in Trogir, Croatia, for three days.  We had gone into...

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THE WIREFRAME

Does the drawing above look like a wireframe drawing?  Or, do any of the drawings on this site look like wireframes?  I don’t think they do.  Yet in two recent conversations with friends about...