Monthly Archive: April 2016
ALL ACROSS THE UNIVERSE
Reading in Bachelard, it was gratifying to hear him contemplate memory, space and time. He posits the theory that memory is free of time. That is to say, our memories are devoid of a...
WHAT IS AND WHAT WILL BE
In Transparent Drawing, you draw to solve what is to be built, and you draw to solve what has already been built. Either way it is the same problem that requires a solution. That...
HOW DOES IT FEEL?
I mentioned a couple of pages ago that I like the Staedtler Mars 4B pencils, which I use to draw in my Moleskine Watercolor sketchbooks. Of course there are thousands of pencil and paper...
CHEAP WATERCOLOR SETS
Two pages ago, I offered thoughts on watercolor sets. I also commented on the cost. The three sets that I highlighted were all around $70. In the whole scheme of things, when a tank...
THE LIVING IS FUZZY
Reading more from the Poetics of Space, “His task is that of proceeding phenominologically to images that have not been experienced, and which life does not prepare, but which the poet creates; of living...
PAINTS AND BRUSHES
Christian writes in with the following query: “Just found your site searching for La Tourette images. I was wondering what materials you use and in what order? I’ve been using a water brush and...
SEEING IS KNOWLEDGE
There are so many books sources stacked up on my desk, I have no idea how I will ever get thru them all. And I am starting to get concerned that I am going...
THINKING IN BETWEEN
Es Devlin, who is the most prominent set designer in the world, thinks like a transparent drawer. In Andrew O’Hagen’s article, Imaginary Spaces, in the 28 March 16 issue of The New Yorker, he...
ROYAL ONTARIO MUSEUM
I didn’t like it. There, I said it. I did not like the Royal Ontario Museum. With the famous architect (Liebskind) and the famous theory (deconstructivism) and the building budget (obviously huge), I had...
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