MIX UP YOUR SPACETIMES!
Don’t be shy to mix spacetimes. Representational Spacetime has such a strong hold on us that you almost have to force yourself to draw in different holistic projections. All you have to do is...
TRANSPARENT DRAWING
MENTAL TRANSPARENCY
In 1883, Francis Galton had this to say about transparency: “Some persons have the habit of viewing objects as though they were partly transparent; thus, if they so dispose a globe in their imagination...
THE ELEMENTS OF DRAWING
Ruskin’s The Elements of Drawing has been in the cannon for decades. I only became aware of it a couple of months ago. As expected, the book’s orientation supports Representational Spacetime: the entire point...
PROUT LITHOGRAPHS
When the thought crossed my mind: use two Prout Lithographs as Source Images, I was all in. By now it should be clear what is going on with the drawing:–Form Combine / Lines Without...
DESIGN A BARN
Let’s design a new barn with Transparent Drawing tools. I thought it would be fun to start with barn forms, and then see how they might help format an entirely new barn. The Drawing...
THE MATHEMATICAL VILLA SAVOYS
Villa Savoye has been a favorite in these pages. We now go farther afield with these Mathematical Villa Savoys. In essence, we take visualized mathematical systems, apply the rules to the building, and see...
BOOK UPDATE
In one month from today, the book, Transparent Drawing, will be released. That is according to my publisher’s listing on CoreSource, a US distribution platform. So how do I think it will stack up?...
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...
IMPROVISATION
This page explores the commonality between jazz improvisation as espoused by Bill Evans and our own Form Generation drawings. Time was, improvisation was at the heart of culture. Pre Renaissance, if you played music,...
THE ANALOGUE IS THE MEDIUM
Analogue, in these pages, centers on the physical integration that comes from a human hand holding a pencil as marks are made on paper. Pylyshyn broadens our understanding of analogue to include the drawing...
DREAM IMAGE
Let’s add a new source image to what we draw from: Dream Image. It is almost shocking to me to realize that I now dream in transparent forms. Possibly the armchair psychologists amongst you...
THE PERSPECTIVES
Quick: how many perspective drawing systems are there? You might immediately answer “two…no wait, three.” Ching, for example, lists the one and two point system. If you get adventurous, you might go for a...
COINCIDENT PROJECTION
For a Form Combine, draw three forms with Coincident Projection. That was the task I set before me, as I drew, with a red water soluble pen, three Ottawa lock forms over each other....
NOTES ON THE SYNTHESIS OF FORM
Christopher Alexander, with their book A Pattern Language, has been a celestial reference from the beginning. So I was intrigued when I realized that they wrote Notes On The Synthesis of Form. He provides...
FORM REDUCTION
The only term that I can come up with for the drawing above is Form Reduction. It is a systematic approach, and it reduces a form from Edge, to Plane, to Line, to Dot....
RETURN TO DRAWING
The web pages titled Return to Drawing caught my attention. It is a beautiful expose on analogue drawing. Rick and Cindy Black, Architects in Austin, are the authors. Their approach to drawing can be...
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...
IMAGINATION AMPLIFICATION
Nat Chard, in his article Paradoxical Sciagraphy, posits a mode of ideation that is beyond what we typically think of as drawing. He has constructed small machines which throws small blobs of paint onto...
MIRROR FORM
Mirroring, or the reflection of an image, is fundamental to Western design. Imagine just about anything: a classical building (the Altes Museum), your phone, your coffee cup, a modern building (Villa Savoye): and it...
ROTATION FORM GENERATION
Rotation Form is a new generation mode. It is very simple. Draw a form. And then rotate it one or more times. With this repetitive overlay of form, you get an armature to use...
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...
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