DRAWING FROM DRAWING
I look at a lot of art when I am making my drawings. Artists that I have found inspirational are Amy Sillman, Richard Serra, Frank Stella, and Picasso, to name a few. I thought...
Monthly Archive: June 2016
TRANSCEND CUBISM
I had never heard of Stuart Davis. That is, until Schjaldahl’s 20 June New Yorker article made the introduction. Davis was an early modernist painter who completely believed in his artistic mission. He also...
GUINET FARMHOUSE
Three views of an ordinary building. I was leafing thru Form Function and Design by Jacques Grillo. On page 108, he includes three views of an ordinary building. And two of the three views...
ORIGINS OF TRANSPARENT DRAWING
This drawing is 35 years old. It seems that I started drawing transparently way before I started Transparent Drawing. I was looking thru old 35 mm slides the other day, and I came across...
ORDINARY GRAIN FACILITY
We are away for a few days, so I thought a travel related post of an ordinary grain facility would be fun. While driving thru the hinterlands of Washington State some months ago, a...
DESIGN MONEY
Money. Money is the talisman of our self-regard. We carefully monitor the quantity as a way to shape our actions. It is a fundamental societal currency. It is a proxy for gauging societal achievement....
HEY BRUNELLESCHI!
Has the eye become a fixed, monocular construct? Is the eye truly locked into the Renaissance perspective dimensional grids? Of course not. We move our bodies thru our world on a daily basis. If...
INFINITE PERSPECTIVES
The simultaneous multiple viewpoints represented by Cubism informs our work. For example, this statement from an early French cubist painter in 1912 essentially describes the transparent drawing method; “I see and represent an object,...
BODILESS OBSERVER
The arc of technology is detachment. Each technological breakthrough has come at the expense of our bodily involvement with the world. The more advanced the technology, the greater our physical removal. Name any technological...
GRAMMAR AND SYNTAX
Grammar and syntax are the problem. A few pages ago, we outlined the trajectory of human communication, starting with the oral tradition, moving thru the pictorial tradition, and we left off when we started...
WHERE PAPER COMES FROM
Paper. We worship it. It is what we draw on. How is it made? About 95% of the paper that we draw on comes from trees. At the heart of it, the papermaking process...
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