LIMA MODERNISM
When I travel, I love to generate a form from the photos that I took the day before. I am currently in Lima, which is turning out to be a modernist paradise. Here in...
Tagged: FORM COMBINE
TRANSPARENT DRAWING ON ARCH DAILY
Arch Daily just ran a very nice piece titled Transparent Drawings, Visualizing Architecture Anew. Per many sources, Arch Daily is the most visited architecture website on the planet. I didn’t realize this...
WHAT DOES IT MEAN?
What is it? What is the narrative? That is a joking question that I get from those nearest to me when looking at my latest drawing. And my joking response is, I have no...
WHAT MAKES PEOPLE MAD
There is one thing about Transparent Drawing that irritates people the most, and it is my use of the phrase, “smear around opaque blobs of paint.” As I make clear in the book, I’m...
BUILDINGS IN BUILDINGS OUT
If you use buildings as your Source Image, you likely will get a building as a result. At least this is what I have found. But maybe that is just my architectural genome kicking...
A BUILDING TO SOOTHE
It’s been tough, I know. Two pages ago, there was a mind numbing 2000 year argument over natural forms. Then there was the saran wrap page. Saran wrap? Seriously? So I thought I better...
SARAN WRAP – DRAWING MATERIALITY
I promised that I would use saran wrap. And now I make “good” on that promise. Cellophane kitchen wrap, or to use the generic term, saran wrap, is transparent. I realized that I was...
THE ARGUMENT OVER NATURAL FORMS
One of the fundamental precepts of Western art over the eons is that art copies nature. And by nature, I mean any natural form that we knowledge with our senses, from outside the body....
IN THE MANNER OF JOSEPH BEUYS
The comment came after the incredible dinner at the enclave of Linda Beaumont and Steve Badanes on Whidbey Island. Linda said, well, surely you know the work of Joseph Beuys? And of course, I...
DRAWING MATERIALITY
Our drawing tools influence our forms. Drawing is a physical act. Johannes Itten, working at the Bauhaus, developed Vorkurs, which was the foundation course of design. Itten was primarily interested in the fusion of...
KRYLON TRANSPARENCY
Spray paint transparency. This is the new Transparent Drawing Assembly that I have begun to draw with. Your first thought might be, how can spray paint that comes from an aerosol can produce transparent...
DRAWING IN MARFA
Drawing in Marfa is a humbling experience. The effect of experiencing everything Judd is nearly overwhelming. The unremitting near nothingness of Judd’s work has the effect of cleaning out your mind. And then you...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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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